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Arizona was kind of good when Kyler first came back and before other injuries crushed them. Think I remember seeing they were top 10 in DVOA for a little bit there including what was at the time a huge upset over Philly. They seemingly figured out McBride is a very good receiving TE at the end of the year, Wilson showed some nice flashes, and now they have MHJ there too. There’s a chance they’re one of those surprise teams this year. I personally don’t feel strongly about them but stranger things have happened.

I think they’ll probably just keep him as a 3rd QB but we’ll see. I think he’s a flat out bad prospect but I get the allure, particularly when we have Josh already.

Maybe I end up being wrong but I don't think those two are really in competition with each other. Their skillsets are complete opposites. More likely if MVS doesn't make the roster it's because of Hamler or Beane just thinks someone like Coleman will be able to win deep despite the relative lack of speed. At any rate, MVS is here purely because he's a deep threat. Shavers can be a pleasant surprise all he wants, but he is not a deep threat.

The defense has generally been very good for Baltimore, and like I said, mileage may vary with the OLine. Sometimes it’s been quite good, sometimes not. The run game is effective because half the defense is selling out to stop Lamar on every handoff because he either actually keeps it himself or fakes like he is. He and Andrews have basically been the only skill players with a pulse on offense up until they finally gave him a decent rookie last year. Agreed it was a weak MVP season last year but that would have been the case no matter who they ultimately awarded it too. There just weren’t any great candidates and somebody had to win. I think Tyreek Hill would have been my vote personally but he slipped up a bit down the stretch. For a little while it was looking like he might hit 2,000 yards receiving.

This has not happened.

Acting like MVPs don’t mean anything at all when ranking the best players is frankly dumb. It is essentially given to the best QB in a given year, so of course it matters quite a lot when ranking QBs. Lamar has also basically never had good offensive players around him. He’s had Mark Andrews and occasionally good OLine and that’s it. For most of his career, both in college and the NFL, the entire offense has boiled down to him overcoming the lackluster talent around him. You could say the same of Josh earlier in his career but the situations haven’t been remotely close overall. Having said all that, Josh has been mostly remarkable in the playoffs and while I think Lamar gets more hate for his playoff play than he deserves, he has certainly underwhelmed. Of course the sample sizes in postseason are relatively tiny compared to the regular season, so their playoff resumes could change pretty quickly but at least for now, it hasn’t been particularly close in the playoffs and despite the MVPs, I think it has been fairly close in the regular season. I’d take our guy over Lamar but I think it’s plenty reasonable to have the two of them in the same tier. Mahomes is probably a tier above both. Last thing: Sharpe and Ocho are unserious people lol don’t think it’s worth caring at all what they say.

Players vote for their top 20 players during the season and this is the result. Most players don’t submit their votes, some players are just idiots, etc. but yeah, it relies on at least 100 players receiving top 20 votes. Don’t think there’s anything fishy to it; just a lot of players voting when Lamar is about to win MVP and Mahomes had been relatively disappointing and they voted for Lamar. Makes sense honestly but it looks terrible in retrospect.

If the players voted purely on who had the best season like they’re supposed to (and submitted their votes before the regular season ended), having Lamar over Mahomes makes plenty of sense. But then stuff like Rodgers being ranked or Mahomes over Allen does not make sense so yeah, weird list.

Even the other reporters have been pretty iffy on Maye's performance so far, but should be noted that most of what Volin writes is just to troll Patriots fans. For whatever reason, that's turned into his shtick over the years. Seems like the other reports on the Pats has mostly been that Maye has been underwhelming and Milton better than expected, but Maye has still been better. It's more just that Milton being able to complete a few passes is better than what was expected of him lol and the Pats are running much simpler stuff for Milton vs. really testing the limits of what Maye can do right now.

Pretty sure it was a false start on the receiving team. One of the guys towards the center of the formation started moving while the kick was in the air.

Both he and Harty looked much worse in Buffalo than they did in their previous stops. Not sure what happened but it was definitely disappointing. Not that they were going to be world beaters or anything but they definitely underwhelmed.

My sense is he was not wanted anymore at Syracuse and rather than transfer elsewhere, he decided to take his chances going pro.

The thing about Claypool is he isn't actually very talented. He's simply athletic. One of my least favorite players in the league.

Might be a weird comparison but for NBA fans, his personality feels like if Giannis Antetokounmpo grew up in America lol

This is really the crux of it. Without developing further, he is probably best suited to be a big slot in the NFL but at his age and relative inexperience, that's not really the point of drafting him. You're drafting him for the contested catch ability, YAC skills, and run blocking right now and hoping the rest develops as he comes into his body/simply works on football more.

I have now heard from multiple people that we've reached out to Kadary Richmond and he is at least open to returning to Syracuse. I'll believe it when I see it, but if we can somehow pull that off, that is a total game changer for next season.

I don't know if Deion is on the record about it or not, but I remember seeing a lot of headlines that he was also saying Travis Hunter will only play for a small handful of teams. Deion reportedly plans on trying to make sure most teams avoid taking Hunter and Shadeur so that they land on the teams he wants. Could easily just be clickbait though, feels like Deion has turned into a very polarizing figure in college football. It would be very disappointing if Coleman ultimately is just a run blocking specialist/jump ball guy, but I think that still represents a higher floor than guys like Worthy, Legette, Mitchell, Corley, etc. just amongst some of the guys that were taken in the same ballpark (maybe a stretch for Corley but he was the first pick of the 3rd round).

His drop rate was 3.8% this past year and 4.2% for his career. That is lower than the career drop % for literally all 10 of our top 10 guys in targets last season. Diggs: 5.5% Kincaid: 4.7% Gabe: 9.8% Cook: 11.0% Shakir: 4.5% Knox: 12.3% Murray: 5.6% Sherfield: 7.1% Harty: 4.3% Ty Johnson: 12.1%

I guess this depends on the definition of low-floor. There's plenty of WRs that come out every year that have nothing to fall back on if they struggle to get open in the NFL and end up washing out of the league very quickly. In the very least, Coleman's run blocking and red zone ability should keep him on NFL rosters for a long time. The key with Coleman IMO is that he's a raw prospect but because of the run blocking and contested catch ability, he should be able to make an impact right away while he hopefully learns the finer points of the game and continues to ascend.

I'm guessing it's already been posted somewhere in these million pages but I'm too lazy to go back and check. If you haven't seen it already, Cover1 did a great breakdown of the Coleman pick. It is 15 minutes long, but does a really nice job of breaking down what they think Beane sees in him and some of their concerns (because it's pretty clear Keon is not who Cover1 wanted lol).

Sounds like Ken Evans Jr. from Jackson State may be our new target in the portal after Leffew chose Georgia over us. Evans won Player of the Year in the SWAC (considered the worst conference in Division 1). Interesting target though...while Leffew looked like more of a SG than a PG to me, he did at least play PG this season and you could see flashes of him making good reads off the dribble and stuff. Evans is purely a SG and probably closer to a SF than a PG. It feels like we may be angling towards starting JJ Starling as our PG at this point, which is a bit questionable. The other option would be to start our new transfer PG, Jaquan Carlos, and bring Evans off the bench (assuming he even commits), but we'll see I guess. Carlos probably isn't good enough to be an ideal starter either but he is at least a pure PG type that will play exactly the way I think Autry wants us to.

It is Will Wade coaching there. He's getting some pretty good players.

Leffew to his hometown school: Georgia.

As a fan of the Coleman pick, this is absolutely true right now. Field Yates saying he thinks Coleman can be our #1 WR immediately is nuts to me. He'll probably never be a great separator, but I think he can be good enough in time to be a good NFL player. We're getting Coleman so early in his developmental curve; he just began focusing solely on football two years ago and he's already strong enough that when he gets the leverage he needs, he can separate pretty easily. It's all about coaching him up to teach him how to create that leverage on a more consistent basis. The unfortunate thing is he struggled dealing with press coverage in college and it sounds like we intend to stick him out there as the X WR so he's going to need a lot of work on that very quickly. But when it comes to gambling on relatively raw prospects, this is the exact type of archetype I like to go for. 2nd youngest WR in the class, one of the youngest breakout ages, early in this developmental curve, lots of physical tools to work with, high motor, and a few ways he can contribute immediately that nobody else on the roster can really do.

It's um...a different group of receivers that's for sure lol. Definitely hoping we add more today. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that we seem to be going with a more balanced target distribution. We'll see if one of these guys turns into a dependable go-to option when things get tight though. I like all of our receiving targets (save Knox who I have never liked) but aside from Kincaid, I don't think any of them are likely to really break out this year. They all have potential though.