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The thing that'll be tough regarding transfers is that those guys are generally transferring because they want more playing time. We don't really have the ability to offer that; our starting lineup is pretty much set in stone for next year already and Boeheim doesn't play a deep bench so it's going to be near impossible to get any of the top tier transfers IMO.

If O'Brien wanted to help New England, he would have sent Hopkins there instead of taking peanuts from Arizona to get him out of the AFC. And Watson might be the only person Houston's owners love more than O'Brien. They'd veto any Watson deal, especially one that sends him to New England.

The Jets faithful will tell you Perriman is simply a better WR than Robby. I'm skeptical of that personally. If Perriman plays like he did the last couple games in Tampa and if Enunwa comes back fully healthy, it's not that bad of a receiving corps. Nothing scary about it by any means, but not terrible. There's a lot of downside there though and we'll see what they do in the draft. Everything the media has been hearing up until now has been that OT or CB is their preferred option in the first round but they're obviously positioned very well to get one of the top 3 WRs if they want to. Yes. Question is if he's any good after that injury.

Honestly shocked the Jets let him get away. They were pretty competitive last season when Darnold was on the field but man, that roster looks so terrible right now.

Yeah. You're more likely to pay money to watch football players play Call of Duty or FIFA than you are to watch them play Madden. The technology isn't even there right now. NASCAR works because the game they're using is incredibly realistic to the point that that game is literally how NASCAR drivers train.

A friend of mine streams when he's not teaching...makes like an extra $1,000 a month just playing old Zelda games and stuff.

After accounting for rookie salaries, they still have like $17-18 million in space.

They have roughly $20 million in cap space still. They won't touch Cam though...that just doesn't make any sense.

My question is if the ram horn on the helmet will have that weird gradient too. I’m guessing the answer is yes.

I definitely would not trade up for a WR after getting Diggs. If Mims is there at 54, I’d be happy to take him there

So basically Washington traded down in the 5th round to lose their best corner (and a legitimately good corner at that) for a backup QB. Nice?

Akers' draft stock has probably been hurt by the level of talent or lackthereof around him. Florida State had one of the worst OLines in football and made life a living hell for him. He seems to check a lot of boxes though; good speed and agility, good pass blocker, pretty good production as a receiver though he drops passes at a somewhat alarming rate. He probably dances a bit too much behind the line of scrimmage, but you could also argue he was forced to by the guys blocking in front of him. I think there's some bad habits there that his team will want to break but he has pretty much everything you'd be looking for in a potentially very good RB. If people want to argue that he and Moss deserve to be mentioned with the top 4 RBs in this draft, you won't really get an argument from me personally.

The scheme made a huge difference for him. They literally went from using spread formations the least to using it the most over the past two years. Burrow has always been good making reads, but the old OC insisted on narrowing the field and making that skill essentially worthless. Then Brady came in, spread the field out, and let Burrow use that skill to pick defenses apart with ease. In terms of his individual development, his pocket presence improved a lot this year; he's still vulnerable to blindside pressure, but he's as good as I've ever seen from a college QB in terms of making the inside rush or rusher to his right miss while staying within the pocket. It's Tom Brady-esq magic. He also cleaned up his footwork a ton. His dropbacks still aren't super smooth, but he's improved a ton in terms of his lower body and upper body being in sync on his throws. Watching his film from previous years, it was one of those things where you could tell he had a natural feel for how much to put on his throws to place them where he wanted, but his lower body sometimes betrayed him. That wasn't really an issue at all this season, and it resulted in him establishing himself as probably the most accurate college passer of all-time.

I'll probably stay away, but I would definitely go over if I had to bet on the Bengals.

Just over the past 4 years, Mahomes is the only QB I had rated higher than Burrow. I have the same grade on Burrow as I did Lamar Jackson. I think a pretty good case could be made for Jameis and Mariota as well but I wasn't grading QBs back then.

That is precisely who PFF has listed as his NFL comparison

I don't think anyone really has a good read on him. We can't even get consensus on what position he is. Some view him as a WR prospect while others view him as a RB. I'm always a bit wary of guys that don't have a natural position. I think he probably has to play as a RB in the NFL; just easier to survive as a RB with raw skills versus being a WR, but it's a pretty massive projection in his case. His natural abilities are pretty evident though; there's some serious potential if he learns how to play football.

On the flip side, he's PFF's #1 RB, so based on how Bills fans feel about them, I assume we all need to start hating Moss as a prospect.

Singletary had 22 carries in situations where we had 0-3 yards to go for a first down/TD. He converted on 15 (68%). Some other notable comparisons: Derrick Henry: 62.7% Melvin Gordon: 65.7% Christian McCaffrey: 64.1% Nick Chubb: 50% Ezekiel Elliott: 74.1%

For this team, the main things I'm looking for in a RB in no particular order are: Can play on 3rd downs AKA can be a receiving weapon and hopefully can block decently, but the receiving part is more important Can create big plays Comfortable running out of the shotgun AJ Dillon, who seems to be very popular here, doesn't meet any of those criteria IMO. He might be the worst projection in the class in terms of being a receiving weapon out of the backfield. There are only two RBs in the class (Eno Benjamin and Josh Kelly) with a lower breakaway % than Dillon. And pretty much every carry Dillon has ever received has been under center; he needs that running start to get going and that limits the ways you can use him. He just doesn't fit what we should be looking for unless you're purely looking for a goal line back, in which case he's worth nothing more than like a 6th-7th round pick due to how niche that role is. Some of the guys that fit those criteria are (listed in roughly the order I'd expect them to be selected): DeAndre Swift (3/3) Jonathan Taylor (2/3) JK Dobbins (3/3) Edwards-Helaire (3/3) Zach Moss (3/3) Cam Akers (2/3) - doesn't have the big plays statistically speaking, but could argue that was due to his OLine) Eno Benjamin (2/3) Darrynton Evans (2.5/3) Lamical Perine (2/3) Ke'Shawn Vaughn (2/3) Anthony McFarland Jr. (2/3) Darius Anderson (2/3) I would imagine the first 4 are legitimate considerations at #54 (if they're available, though I suspect at least 1 of them will be). Moss, Benjamin, and Evans seem like options for Round 3 or 4. The last three seem like later Day 3 options/possibly UDFA in the case of Anderson. I'm generally not in favor of taking RBs early, but I'd be fine with taking one of the top 4 guys at 54 if they're available and would be happy to add any of the other guys later on if we pass at 54.

I don’t like him as a prospect, but he’s undoubtedly fast when he gets up to top speed. He’s just pretty much purely a straight line guy that needs a bit of a runway to get going.

Of this group, Akers is a league above the rest IMO. Dillon is pretty much off my draft board personally. I like but don’t love Perine and Moss. Not on your list, but a couple other guys I’m interested in are Ke’shawn Vaughn and Deejay Dallas

And yet Denver offered it when they have Lindsay there already. My guess would be there were talks. We probably implied we’d offer more with less guarantees or something. Agent gave that info to Klis. Beane told Schefter we never made an offer (probably was never an official contract sent to them but likely a verbal offer). Or it’s still possible the agent simply made it up to try to soften the blow that Gordon signed an underwhelming deal. I definitely don’t think it’s impossible that we offered around that much money to a guy we’ve been linked to for a year now.

Someone in that mold is exactly what I’m looking for in a vet RB. He’s not the complementary runner we need for Singletary but we can address that in the draft. Thompson can be our 3rd down guy.

If we're trying to stack the line and run it in from 4 yards out on 3rd down we probably deserve to lose anyways. Allen is probably more likely to run it in than either of them are too. I personally wouldn't be looking for a short yardage specialist if it were me. If we bring someone in that happens to be good at that in addition to other more valuable aspects, then sure.