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Pre Snap Reads Mock Draft Version One
Johnny Manziel is expecting to be the first quarterback taken. (Image courtesy of Sports Illustrated) This is a mock draft where I made the selections for the teams. However, I also tried to be...
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NFL Draft Twitter List
Image courtesy of @SullyFootball Following the NFL offseason can be tough. That is primarily for two reasons: 1. It’s drawn out for months. 2. Some of the specific details of different moves, contracts...
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Ranking the Players I’ve Been Able To Watch
I don’t get a huge amount of time to commit to watching college players, but with the draft on tomorrow night, I thought it was a good time to get all my thoughts on players out for everyone to read....
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Jared Goff, Best Available Quarterback
Back in 2011, a film called The Artist won the Oscar for Best Picture. It wasn’t your typical victor. The Artist was a black-and-white, silent film set in the 1920s. Not the type of film that draws in...
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The Warts of Carson Wentz
What should we value in an NFL quarterback prospect? Every year quarterbacks cause the greatest rifts at draft time because of that question. Not only does everyone see different things when they...
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2016 NFL Draft: The Tennessee Titans’ Best Direction
21 teams have hired a new head coach since 2013. Eight of those teams have hired two coaches over that time period. The majority of those hires have been paired with new general managers. One of those...
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Developmental Quarterbacks: The NFL Draft’s Pyramid Scheme
15 quarterbacks were selected in the 2016 NFL Draft. Jared Goff and Carson Wentz went first and second overall, before Paxton Lynch and Christian Hackenberg followed in the first two rounds. After...
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Patrick Mahomes and the Allure of Upside
This is the time of year when you hear about what a player can be taught. You can’t teach speed, but you can teach route running. You can’t teach size, but you can teach hand placement. You can’t...
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DeShone Kizer and Diverging Traits
The draft is a repetitive entity. Every draft process is engulfed in narratives that parallel previous years while teams repeat terms and prospects fall into the same categories. It can become...
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Evaluating Quarterback Prospects, Mitchell Trubisky and DeShaun Watson
Evaluating prospects for the NFL draft should be a humbling undertaking. You are trying to predict something that by its very nature is unpredictable. You can get everything right in what you are...
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