If Burrow falls to 2, someone is going to give up an RG3 haul to trade up. But I do appreciate the work. Burrow not going #1 would throw a huge wrench in everything.
Damn. I just looked at my fantasy rankings from last years class for the dynasty league I run and I don’t think I did bad. It has all the makings to be a great WR class. At the very least competitive with this year’s class. David Montgomery - RB CHI (1.3) Josh Jacobs - RB OAK (1.1) Miles Sanders - RB PHI (1.4) Darrell Henderson - RB LAR (1.6) Devin Singletary - RB BUF (1.10) Parris Campbell - WR IND (1.12) K’Neal Harry - WR NE (2.1) Mecole Hardin - WR KC (2.2) AJ Brown - WR TEN (1.9) Noah Fant - TE DEN (1.8) DK Metcalf - WR SEA (1.2) Deebo Samuel - WR SF (2.4) TJ Hockenson - TE DET (1.7) Dwayne Haskins - QB WAS (3.6) Kyler Murray - QB ARI (1.5) Devin White - LB TB (2.11) Devin Bush - LB PIT (2.5) Darwin Thompson - RB KC (2.3)
I’m guessing the numbers in parentheses are where they actually got drafted? I like that you’re one of the few people other than me who had Montgomery ahead of Jacobs. And I stand by that.
Yeah. It was easier to keep track from my list on if they were still there available. Jacobs surprised me last year and Montgomery hopefully takes the next step this year. It was pretty much 1a and 1b for me with those two.
Me too. I feel like Montgomery would’ve had a better year had he gotten to Chicago the previous year. It’s like they forgot who they were last year. But yeah nothing against Jacobs, I just thought Montgomery was built more like that true bellcow, and I loved his creativity in college. Thought his ceiling was higher. Still do, but plenty to like with Jacobs so far
Henry Ruggs “a little disappointed” with his 4.27-second 40-yard dash Alabama wide receiver Henry Ruggs ran a 4.27-second 40-yard dash in February, the fastest time at this year’s Scouting Combine and one of the fastest ever. But he wasn’t satisfied. Ruggs said on SiriusXM NFL Radio that he has run faster than that in training and was expecting to run faster in Indianapolis. “I actually was a little disappointed,” Ruggs said. “Just a lot of technical things I did during the run. . . . But I’m still glad to be known as one of the fastest ever.” Ruggs has watched the tape of his 40 and seen what he could have done better. “After the re-start I was thinking a lot and didn’t really come out of my start like I wanted to, didn’t really come out fluid, and didn’t really push on my first two steps,” Ruggs said. “Then, running with my hands closed kind of tensed me up so I couldn’t really open up like I wanted to.” Now Ruggs is still working on his speed, but with gyms closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, he says his approach to working out is “just find me a good patch of grass and do what I can.” Ruggs is a likely high first-round pick, and some NFL team will want him running on its patch of grass for years to come. NBC
Chase Young calls himself “definitely” the best player in the draft Ohio State pass rusher Chase Young agrees with the many draft analysts who think he’s the best player available. Asked if he is the best player in the 2020 NFL draft, Young said there’s no question about it. “Yes, definitely,” Young told ESPN. “I know I’m the best, definitely.” LSU quarterback Joe Burrow is a near-lock to go to Cincinnati with the first overall pick, which would leave Young to go to Washington with the second pick. That’s how most mock drafts are shaking out, and if that’s the way it happens, Washington is getting the player many consider to be the best in this draft — and a player who considers himself the best in this draft. NBC
Tua Tagovailoa: Injuries are part of the game, I’m not playing badminton Tua Tagovailoa held a virtual Pro Day workout this week to show off his arm because he isn’t able to hold a real one or visit teams amid the COVID-19 pandemic. His ability to play quarterback likely isn’t the big question mark for most teams as they consider drafting Tagovailoa later this month. The dislocated hip that ended his final season at Alabama was one of several injuries he sustained in college and clubs will have to decide if they feel he’s at risk for more of the same at the professional level. Tagovailoa joined former Alabama offensive coordinator and current Maryland coach Mike Locksley on Instagram Live on Friday night and said that injuries are a fact of life in his chosen sport. “I’m not playing badminton. I’m not on the swim team,” Tagovailoa said, via ESPN.com. “[Football] is a physical sport. You’re gonna get hurt. That just comes with it. And it was just very unfortunate that I got hurt every season. It’s a part of the game. It’s a contact sport. I can only control what I can control. I can’t control that.” Tagovailoa also can’t control what teams think about his injury history, which will make his landing spot one of the lead storylines in the first round of the draft. NBC
Bust alert: Chase Young is too high on himself. I smell a player who is already posing for a bust in canton and he won’t even be a pro bowler
It's called confidence, gid. The Bosa brothers had it as well. Why wouldn't he call himself the "best player in the draft"?....Feel free to doubt the man..
Obviously he isn’t anywhere close to Joe Burroughs. So how can he declare to be the best in this draft. Burroughs would have hung 50 on the Ohio State
I personally have Burrow as the 4th best player in the draft. I have 3 defensive players ahead of him. He’s good but produced in a system that was completely structured around him. Plus his skill position players around him were the best in the country as a whole. That helps his production.
He destroyed the defenses of the teams in the championship series. I could see questioning his play if it was the big ten or ACC he played in. But he made the big SEC schools look like division II teams
NFL violates its own confidentiality policy, again The NFL has a substance abuse policy. The substance abuse policy contains a clear confidentiality provision aimed at keeping drug-test results private. And the NFL, through its in-house media conglomerate, continues to periodically violate the confidentiality provision. NFL.com has posted an article outing Lousville offensive lineman Mekhi Becton as being one of multiple players whose drug test from the Scouting Combine was “flagged.” That’s a roundabout way of saying Becton failed a drug test, especially since the article goes on to say that Becton will now be placed in Stage One of the substance-abuse program for 60 days, and that if he’s not “flagged” again, he’ll revert to pre-flagged status. Over the course of the next 60 days, however, Becton will be subject to enhanced testing, increasing the number of opportunities for him to be “flagged” again. The bigger problem here continues to be the nonchalance with which the NFL violates its own confidentiality policy via reports published by NFL.com. Unless and until the league spins off or sells NFL Network and NFL.com and licenses the three-letter acronym to an entity that isn’t the NFL, any report from either entity is a report from the NFL itself. And when it comes to players violating drug tests, that’s a clear violation of the confidentiality provision. Ideally, no one should know about any failed or flagged drug tests until a player is suspended. Given the changes to the substance-abuse policy flowing from the new CBA, players will never be suspended for positive drug tests. Which is all the more reason for the privacy rights of players who voluntarily show up at the Scouting Combine and urinate into a cup to be fully and completely respected. And if those rights are going to be violated by someone from the league office or one of the teams who blabs to the media, the one media outlet that NEVER should be reporting this is the one that is owned and operated by the league and, thus, that is the league. It’s wrong now. It’s always been wrong. One of these days, hopefully the NFL Players Association will do something about it. NBC
That reminds me of a dangerous duo from the eighties that fumbled and allowed Elway to get the drive in.
