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Yeah, his analysis is replacable for sure. I wish Collinsworth would sail off into the sunset too.

Big guys with a history of foot injuries give me a lot of pause. They have a bad track record of reoccurring and he already has a history of reoccurring foot injuries.

I can’t help but imagine him next to Brown. Makes me think of the hogmolly Star/Short days.

Caleb Banks is a massive human being. Nearly 86 inch wingspan? Good Lord.

I like that we're actually showing interest in a true FS type of safety, but Bud Clark is the mid-round safety I'm really keeping an eye on.

supposedly, NBC is looking at Tomlin (could be good!) and Rodgers (bleeeech) as replacement

I don't think 31" arms are gonna hurt him. Maybe he only goes top 10 instead of top 5. He would've had to show up arms amputated to be available at 19. LOL

This is the correct answer. 99% of the game is played within 20 yards from the line of scrimmage. Defenses are just too good to allow long developing plays at this level. Short area quickness is more important than straight line speed.

Explosiveness, quick feet/agility, and short yardage speed. Makes total sense. Top end 40 speed is great but not used often in games realistically. How many 30-40 yards straight line plays are there per game? I understand where overall speed matters, but it's overvalued if the footwork and explosiveness are lacking. Straight line speed guys usually don't have long careers. Most offenses live in the 5-15 yard area which is what the drills reflect.

I almost included morgan in that group but he seemed to focus on college production over RAS in the 25 draft. We shall see in april but if we get that kid from Auburn at 19 its back where we started

I like Dungy. Yeah not very charismatic but has had pretty solid insight when I've heard him talk.

Figured I would save people the click:

RAS all day!!! You could almost perfectly predict pur picks just based off of highest RAS on the board. We weren't drafting for a football team, we were trying to build a track and field squad.

I reluctantly accept that we will have to go Bain Jr as BPA at #19.

Surprised to see the 40 as the strongest predictor by a hair but not surprised to see it as the metric that gets guys overdrafted the most. Not surprised to see shuttle and 10 second split as strong predictors. I've always thought those were undervalued. I am surprised to see the three cone as basically just a nonfactor. It's one I've always valued but the data doesn't bear it out. Maybe just drop it or find some other test that might provide better insight. That one just doesn't seem to matter at all so why bother?

I think Rodriguez will play out to be the Luke Kuechly of this draft. If we could get him in house and have Luke there to tutor him a bit more...

In fact, I had forgotten that he is still on. He proves that nice guys don't always finish last. I respect him

Rhule and fitterer laugh at this

Insightful thread. Seems like athletic testing hasn’t been much of a predictor as I thought it was.