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Per Adam Schefter: https://x.com/AdamSchefter/status/1920523706624823739 Expected, but just want to rub it in here.

I try to keep up and project the roster with color-coded charts. You can see priorities and gauge who has the best chance of making the roster--you can see the priorities as well. Here, Yellow is a 2025 draft pick, green is an undrafted free agent, and orange is a free agent. The depth chart will obviously change and I am not sure about roles (positions in all cases), so that is not the real issue at this time, but yellows and oranges show how the team focused on which aspects of the defense: In the front 5, there were 3 draft picks, 3 free agents (not including players we re-signed), and two undrafted players signed. In the back 6, there was 1 draft pick and 2 free agents (LB, S), and four undrafted free agents. The undrafted free agents are always long shots, but by identifying them, you can tell which longshots might make the roster.

The rise of analytics in sports goes back to the use of sabermetrics in baseball. The ironic thing is that the whole point of Bill James work was to objectively figure out each players contribution to to a team's wins throughout the season. This is possible in baseball because each at bat is essentially a 1v1 with an objective outcome. Applying statistical averages also works a lot better with hundreds of plate appearances over 162 games a year. PFF grades plays subjectively, and then puts them into buckets. They then create different statistics based on those buckets. That's all well and good and I'm not saying it's useless. But calling it analytics like it's some kind of objective science is a far cry from what is actually going on.

Hopefully some secondary help comes from the cap space we freed up.

Yeah, kind of weird since we had Kalil anchoring the OL for so long. I assume they like the Cincy guard and plan to use him as the 3rd C (behind Mays). Maybe Mays just showed more so no point in keeping Rahm.

I was going to mention this since Brooks is officially out for 2025, basically a roster move and he’ll be like an additional draft pick in 2026 barring a shower accident.

Agree. The point I'm making is his total yards will be low due to a lack of YAC. Therefore his YPA will be low. Carolina had the lowest YAC in the NFL last season.

Only "change" I have is simply wondering who is wrong....PFF or Next Gen Stats on if he was 2 of 6 or 2 of 7 on the day. but yeah, even meh players like will Levis per your info went 2 of 3 on the day w/ a TD...throwing deeper than Bryce on average. I still don't get the fixation on trying to manifest Bryce as a top 10 player. All the non-PFF info if looked at collectively says he isn't a great deep ball passer nor is was he top 10 caliber post benching. Eye test backs that as well. PFF pretty much is on an island there IMO.

For some reason Morgan doesn’t value centers. We basically have guards penciled in as centers

Also gives him an opportunity to get picked up by another team instead of stringing him along. I've always liked the idea of letting a guy go as early as possible if you know he's not making the final roster.

You must have been excited on draft night lol I felt similar about walker but i felt like I saw a huge outrage when Walker wasn't the pick

You must have been excited on draft night lol I felt similar about walker but i felt like I saw a huge outrage when Walker wasn't the pick

Eh, I'm still quite skeptical about Bryce as a franchise guy but YAC is a product of the scheme and pass catchers as much, if not more, than the QB. Perhaps there some nerd stat out there that has teased that apart but even then, it's not like baseball where it's just pitcher vs hitter in static situations.

we are thin in a few areas. I still think they think we are set at edge. We still have DJ and Barno and one could go to the PS. Edge is one of those positions, for some reason, where if you do not draft the right guy or break the bank, you gotta go with what you have. Personally, I think our 2 draft picks will be fine. SEC kids. Jones and Wonnum are adequate vets who are not so good they will steal playing time from the toddlers. Three rookies (including Mwansa, who could play special teams while developing as an edge) behind 2 vets is huge, but don't forget, we had a veteran group of DTs, DEs, and LBs. On the back end of the defense, all veterans (starting) except maybe Ransom.

His release also opened cap space for the rookies, including UDFAs. I hate it but it’s the nature of the beast and we have a logjam at Edge.

His YAC per completion was also 35th in the NFL. There are only 32 teams.

We absolutely made the wrong choice there and I was one of the ones screaming that at the time. It's all about positional value. But Bradberry was never the fastest, twitchiest guy around and he'll be 32 when next season starts. He's probably lost a couple of steps with age and I don't think he's a guy who could afford to lose a couple of steps.

No need with Dowdle and Etienne behind Hubbard.

Just being rid of Ian Thomas from the TE group makes it stacked .. lol

I'm not nostalgic towards him, I think he could play fs at this stage of his career

He has fallen off a cliff from what I have read. I would have Shaq back over him right now.

Is that just nostalgia talking? From what I read, he has been a liability lately on tape. He has been getting benched if I recall correctly.

The Panthers should have never let him go....they chose Shaq over him which was a mistake.

I don't mind this move. If there was a trade, we would have taken it, and that says something. He has been on, what, 6 teams in 7 years? There is a reason for that. I don't remember him from anything he did on the field last year. What I remember most is him talking a bit about Bryce seemingly as soon as he got off the plane. I'm not saying what he said was wrong, just not the type of stuff you say when you are new to the team and have a new, young QB trying to make it here. I wish it were different. Always like our home grown stories, but Clowney just ain't it. Good luck elsewhere.

I wouldnt mind bringing Bradberry back