Every draft cycle has a number of polarizing prospects. This past draft provided Deshaun Watson, Jabrill Peppers, and John Ross for example. Two years ago opinions were mixed on players such as Christian Hackenberg, Connor Cook, and Carson Wentz. In the draft year ahead, the clubhouse leader for the most polarizing prospect is the defending…
June is a great month in the football world, as the docket slows somewhat as NFL teams wrap up OTAs, college teams are still a month away from camps, and the pace generally relaxes. It’s a good time to handle some other business – say, tending to the backyard crop of corn and resurfacing some…
A few weeks back, one member of the football media world decried the inclination to look ahead to the 2018 quarterback draft class before the 2017 draft even took place. Basing his argument on the uncertainties that exist from one year to the next, and how development is not linear, it was way too early…
Before Dak Prescott, there was Tom Brady. The mold that draft evaluators and scouts wanted to try and replicate each draft season. Who could identify the next late-round quarterback who would emerge as a star in the National Football League? But there’s another “Next” type out there, one that is harder to truly define, but…