If you were asked to build a football player he would end up looking like Josh Allen (#41). He didn’t always look this way. He was lightly recruited out of high school, until his senior season he was mainly a wide receiver, and he was an all-state selection as a junior. As a senior, he…
Many eyes will be on Missouri games this year to get a look at their quarterback, Drew Lock. But on the other side of the ball, they have a former five star recruit who deserves just as much attention. Terry Beckner Jr’s All-SEC freshman team season was cut short with a torn ACL and MCL…
For every year that Aaron Rodgers inches closer to the end of his career, the need for each rookie class to have some substantive and immediate impact grows. And for a team that has seen a general manager transition (out with Ted Thompson, in with Brian Gutekunst), an exodus of talented front-office executives migrating elsewhere…
The 2018 Senior Bowl is quickly approaching, and in preparation for the week ahead I’ve attempted to get an idea of this year’s wide receiver group by outlining what they can do and what I’d like to see from them in Mobile. The 2018 crop is filled with intriguing prospects that possess good traits and…
As a talent evaluator, it is crucial to not be influenced by the surrounding noise. That’s why, when scouting for the 2018 Inside the Pylon draft guide, I didn’t read any other scouting reports or articles. Now that my reports have been submitted, I am shocked at the lack of buzz Missouri safety Anthony Sherrils…
August is upon us. NFL as well as college teams have begun their fall camps, the first NFL preseason game is in the books, and the start of football season is around the corner. But with the NFL Draft always on our mind, it is time to expand our look at the next quarterback class.…
Ethan Pocic was one of the offensive linemen I studied and graded for the 2017 Inside the Pylon Draft Guide. I watched five games of his film to break him down. A five-game minimum is typically the benchmark I like to hit when fully evaluating a player. This allows for exposure to the player dealing…
The Cleveland Browns made the right decision staying with Myles Garrett and not taking Mitchell Trubisky. In the end, I believe the Trubisky hype was all media-driven and that the Browns were locked in the entire time, which is what I maintained throughout the process. Cleveland allowing teams to come up around them for Deshaun…
The days and weeks leading up to the 2017 NFL Draft is a time where we can hypothesize about several different scenarios and hope our favorite team does not swing and miss early, while at the same time hoping that our team finds the hidden gems in the third day of the draft. After a…
“State of the Draft” is going to be a weekly column serving as a catch-all for anything NFL Draft. You can expect information on which prospects I’ve been watching, players I’m high or low on, players who I think might be under the radar, positing on draft philosophy, expanded thoughts on topics in the media…
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be producing five articles highlighting around 45 draft-eligible edge defenders for the 2017 NFL Draft. They’ll be divided up by class. I began with redshirt seniors and true seniors and now will look at redshirt juniors before following up with true juniors and a few redshirt sophomores that could potentially…
You can learn a lot from a quick look at football, even from just two drives. Here, with big changes afoot for the LSU Tigers, Mark Schofield shows us how you can learn about a clicking offense from just two plays. After a tumultuous week that saw long-time head coach Les Miles fired in the wake…
Nick Chubb is back for Jim Chaney and the rest of the SEC is on notice. Mark Schofield looks at what he brings to Georgia’s power run game. Heading into the 2016 season, the main storyline in Athens, Georgia was the status of running back Nick Chubb’s left knee. After tearing multiple ligaments in the knee, including…
Film work complete, Mark Schofield is ready to make his predictions for the coming Southeastern Conference season. Will Tennessee finally break through in the SEC East? Can Alabama hold off the LSU Tigers? Also, what players look to take home hardware at the end of the season? As we near kickoff of the college football…
Facing both player and coaching personnel changes, the Missouri Tigers’ defensive line dominance is officially threatened. But, as Mark Schofield writes, they still have the roster and the schemes to continue to dominate if they execute. In this piece, Mark analyzes the different schemes the Tigers use to fluster opponents. Over the past few seasons,…
Mississippi State kept their very slim SEC West hopes alive with a 31-13 victory over the Missouri Tigers on Thursday night. Mark Schofield looks at the Bulldogs use of go routes as Dak Prescott goes vertical. In the rain, Bulldogs quarterback Dak Prescott threw for four touchdowns and became just the sixth player in SEC history…