They are beaten. They are battered. And if they’re smart, they escape the shackles of free labor before the length of their potential career has been shortened too much. There was a time when Dorsett sprinted away from defenders, when Herschel manhandled would-be tacklers, and when Marcus Allen looked like he was playing against junior…
Throughout the remainder of the off-season, I will be previewing the best returning offensive line units in college football. These previews will give us the opportunity to scout some of the top offensive line prospects for the 2019 NFL Draft, while also highlighting those whose names we will likely see in 2020 and beyond. I…
Throughout the remainder of the off-season, I will be previewing the best returning offensive line units in college football. These previews will give us the opportunity to scout some of the top offensive line prospects for the 2019 NFL Draft, while also highlighting those whose names we will likely see in 2020 and beyond. You…
Man in the Middle T.J. Edwards was the man in the middle of a Wisconsin defense that was ranked second in total defense (262.1 yards per game), third in rushing defense (98.4 ypg) and third in scoring defense (13.9 ppg). He was an integral part of a senior laden defense that lost seven starters, including…
What a time to be an NFL fan. The game is as flexible and multiple as ever and the lines have been blurred in regards to once extremely rigid concepts such as scheme, philosophy and the concept of players having defined positions. Defensive fronts also fall into that category, as the once unique and scheme…
What was once thought of as a championship team was nothing more than a figment of our imagination, as we watched the 2017 Giants crumble from the North, South, East, and West. Alas, Week 17 couldn’t arrive soon enough and us Giants fans went right into full draft mode, as an uncommon reality materialized into…
We were waiting for a really weird weekend in college football and, boy did we get it! We always get it. It’s always lying in the weeds waiting to sneak up on us and it never fails. Every year. Here are my thoughts on the week that was. One Loss is Not a Death Sentence…
Anyone that tells you they know anything about anything at this point prior to the college football season… well… they don’t. We can take estimated guesses and some of them will turn out to be correct, but to accurately play out the entire season is a fool’s errand. People love to believe there is some…
I evaluated Pat Elflein for the 2017 Inside the Pylon Draft Guide. I broke the former Buckeye down by watching a series of six games. 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 with the pain and various ailments…
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…
Click here for a full explanation of methodology and categories used in the chart above. About the class: In today’s NFL, right tackle is as much of a priority as left tackle because of the evolution of pass rushers. Some of the best edge players in the NFL are playing left defensive end or outside…
(Click to enlarge table) Click here for a full explanation of the methodology and categories used in the chart above. “The Headliners” The headliner of this class is Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey, who I would be comfortably take in the early teens in round 1. The specialness of McCaffrey comes from a presence on the…
There has been a lot of discussion over where Michigan’s Jabrill Peppers should play in the NFL. Some have envisioned a safety role for him, others view him as a linebacker. Peppers’s college film reveals traits that show he is poorly suited for a linebacker role in the pros. One major issue Peppers encounters is…
Declined invitations from Tim Williams, Jonathan Allen, Takkarist McKinley, Taco Charlton and DeMarcus Walker have severely dampened the enthusiasm for what could have been on of the best edge groups the Senior Bowl has ever seen. While the absence of those five and Carl Lawson, who didn’t graduate on time to make the Senior Bowl…
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…