Blokestradamus

Pretty sure you just talked stats at me, son. I'd wind your neck in.

You'll know on Thursday. If a consensus top name is still on the board at pick 32, big indicator.

D'Onta Foreman is an absolutely incredible dude. Hard to imagine going through this at a young age. @NFL During the ’16 @TexasFootball season, @D33_foreman experienced an unimaginable loss. The passing of his son, D’Onta Jr. https://twitter.com/NFL/status/856657599948767232

I'd get the logic behind selecting Thomas if he's on the board. I'm not his biggest fan but he fits McDermott's type (especially with Jerry having an out in his deal after 2017). Allen is one of the few first round guys in this class that I haven't pinged for his relative lack of athletic ability. He's not a poor athlete by any means but he's so technically advanced that it trumps him only hitting certain benchmarks. If they go down the 3-tech route, I'd prefer Malik McDowell but won't grumble about Allen too much. The Panthers built on the front 7 under Rivera/McDermott, I'd expect that to continue.

As Kirby said, Barnett doesn't have the requisite physical attributes associated with being a top-flight pass rusher. Only guy outside of Garrett that possesses enough athletic traits while having the technical proficiency to be worthy of a 1st round selection is Solomon Thomas.

Them's fighting words, mister. Prepare for fisticuffs. In all honesty, check out Joe Banyard's pro day results from UTEP. He might be the one to focus on. Banyard is also 2 days away from having the greatest DOB in history.

This pass rush class is Myles Garrett and a bunch of other dudes. I wouldn't touch another edge guy after Myles until the 20's at the earliest and wouldn't touch Barnett/Watt/McKinley/Lawson/Taco until the 2nd. Shaq would be DE2 in this class.

Posted the same 10 yard split. JWill had the better shuttle, 3-cone.

I'm with you on that one. I expect Peppers to be a better impact player (KR/PR) but Hill could end up as a really solid pro.

If Barnett is the BPA at 10, we really need new scouts.

I'm of the belief (and it's not always been taken as a popular one) that the NFL isn't really a big play league, particularly in the passing game. It's more of a chunk play league which is why I value intermediate accuracy above everything else. At that level, Teddy Bridgewater is still my top rated QB in the few years of me doing this stuff. Teddy is actually a great case study for valued traits because he's not really a scrambler nor is he a great deep ball thrower but he never had a capped value to me because of it. Everyone loves a QB that can hit a deep ball because it opens everything up (I think it truly helps the run game a lot more than the pass). If you don't have that deep accuracy, for me, you'd better be pinpoint accurate in the areas that you can hit to compensate. That means either having the arm/balls to throw those deep outs to the sideline or hitting digs/crossers in stride to allow creation after the catch. For me, that placement is where Trubisky has some major issues, a lot of his 11-20 targets in the MOF don't sufficiently lead the target. They still count but not all completions are neccesarily created equal. Bills fans may hiss and boo me for it but Tom Brady is the benchmark for my QB evaluation. He's not the biggest arm in the league and his deep ball numbers have been distinctly average but he wins with pre-snap recognition and advanced placement & timing. When you watch a guy dismantle you twice a year doing that, it's not hard to value that highly.

Me thinks 420 might be half-baked in every sense.

That's the thing, you've got to figure out how much is scheme-driven. Mitch Trubisky completed 68.2% of his passes but I still think he's got some potentially fatal accuracy/placement issues. I wish things like average depth of target and yards after catch were more closely tabulated in the college ranks. It's a pain doing it myself.

Sense hath prevailed. Sad to see him go but the right move.

The point is that stats don't mean much in the grand scheme of his pro prospects. I don't think anyone disputes him being a good college football player in the role he played. He also lit things up on offense and ST so that's the argument I'd make for production translating.

Peppers played linebacker. That's not production that he'll be getting in the NFL. He'll need to force fumbles and make picks stick to be a game-changing safety.

And he can join right at the perfect moment; following 20 years of doom.

Don't worry, I'll win them over in 3 years time when I write a love letter about their slot WR Eddie McDoom.

That works both as a restaurant and herpes joke. Kudos.

That sound you hear? It's Mark Ingram screaming at his agent to find him a trade. Payton !@#$ing hates the guy.

He's destined for it, an expert in meh already. Can't wait for next week when I find my 2018 class whipping boy

Funniest part of this - Deone wasn't even Deone in college and Deone also isn't very good as that "money backer" either.

His entire week has gone to pot. What a shame. For the record, if it's weed, I give precisely less than one-quarter of a !@#$. Like mentioned earlier via Joe Thomas, it's an intelligence test. It's a set date on the calendar for months. Only issue I have is if he's juicing to bulk up, which is plausible if he's a tweener trying to prove he can get to a WLB playing weight. And because I know Yolo will love it: @MichSportsZone ESPN is reporting that Jabrill Peppers tested positive for a diluted sample at the combine. RT to show JABRILL IS INNOCENT https://twitter.com/MichSportsZone/status/856572631134478336

If he's got a history of cramping, does that mean he might suffer from sickle cell?

3rd round running back.