2017 Draft Prospects Thread

[bob2the2nd]

View: https://twitter.com/NFLDrafter/status/846400853607047168


Very interesting article. For the TLR crowd here is the draft bottom line.

• 96.1 percent of starter-level quarterbacks drafted since 1983 have been Gold or Silver passers.
• Every Super Bowl-winning starting QB drafted since 1983 has been a Gold passer.
• Bernie Kosar (Silver), Elvis Grbac (Bronze) and Brock Osweiler (Bronze) were on Super Bowl-winning teams as backups behind Gold quarterbacks Steve Young, Troy Aikman and Peyton Manning, but that is the closest a non-Gold QB has come to winning a trophy.
• There has never been an Bronze All-Pro QB in the SEMTEX era.

alright, and whats their bust rate? I can go out and hit on 96% of all QBs, if i take every single damn QB.

also the the last time trevor knight was the starting QB at OU was 3 years ago..

 

[Lee]

View: https://twitter.com/NFLDrafter/status/846400853607047168


Very interesting article. For the TL;DR crowd here is the draft bottom line.

• 96.1 percent of starter-level quarterbacks drafted since 1983 have been Gold or Silver passers.
• Every Super Bowl-winning starting QB drafted since 1983 has been a Gold passer.
• Bernie Kosar (Silver), Elvis Grbac (Bronze) and Brock Osweiler (Bronze) were on Super Bowl-winning teams as backups behind Gold quarterbacks Steve Young, Troy Aikman and Peyton Manning, but that is the closest a non-Gold QB has come to winning a trophy.
• There has never been an Bronze All-Pro QB in the SEMTEX era.

Jerod Evans?

Anyone? If Mitch is ok with one year, why not him in the 5th?

 

[Phills14]

read the article

 

[NtG]

Jerod Evans?

Anyone? If Mitch is ok with one year, why not him in the 5th?

Evans looked like the worst QB at the combine to me fwiw.

 

[Matches]

read the article

Love it. He didn't even read/comprehend your TL/DR, let alone the article.

Good stuff here. Especially telling that the bust rate for Gold QBs is basically 2 out of 3 and there are exactly 3 gold QBs in this class. Kaaya is DQed by the Don't Draft Anyone Who Can't Throw 54 (or is it 55) mph rule, and @NtG said Evans looked like ass at the combine. So I guess it's Mitchell, then.

 

[AZ_]

 

[Scholar]

While I agree with their conclusions (ie draft Garrett), I think the bringing up of past drafts that the present management group has had nothing to do with gets really old.

 

[MGMT]

Read that D'Onta Foreman ran a 4.41 at his PD. Has anyone watched him extensively? I'm ambivalent with him: he looks decisive but at times seems to go a little too east-west but his offensive line was allowing a decent amount of penetration from what I see. Also lacks that desired breakaway speed in pads but seems to have a good-enough burst while being 250.

We haven't talked much running back but I'm in the camp that doesn't think Johnson will ever eclipse the title of 'average scat-back' and Crowell isn't good enough himself to elevate our run game to where it needs to be.

 

[SixPACK]

Read that D'Onta Foreman ran a 4.41 at his PD. Has anyone watched him extensively? I'm ambivalent with him: he looks decisive but at times seems to go a little too east-west but his offensive line was allowing a decent amount of penetration from what I see. Also lacks that desired breakaway speed in pads but seems to have a good-enough burst while being 250.

We haven't talked much running back but I'm in the camp that doesn't think Johnson will ever eclipse the title of 'average scat-back' and Crowell isn't good enough himself to elevate our run game to where it needs to be.

"Having participated in bench-press testing only at the NFL Scouting Combine (18 reps), Foreman had plenty of work to do for his pro-day workout. When he was done, scouts had plenty to like. He weighed in at 234 pounds and clocked a pair of 4.45 40-yard dashes, per NFL.com senior analyst Gil Brandt, making for a size/speed combination that analyst Lance Zierlein described as "big-time." The speed Foreman showed Tuesday would have made some combine history had he run a 4.45 in Indianapolis; in modern combine annals (since 2003), no running back weighing 232 pounds or more has run as fast as Foreman did, per Brandt. He also turned in a 33-inch vertical jump. Of the 15 running backs to jump higher than 33 inches at the combine, none weighed in as heavy as Foreman did Tuesday."

 

[Triplethreat]

Garret's pro day was FREAKY good.

We're finally going to have a dynamic player to impact the game in so many different ways on every play. It's been a long time coming.

 

[Amherstcavsfan]

Garret's pro day was FREAKY good.

We're finally going to have a dynamic player to impact the game in so many different ways on every play. It's been a long time coming.

He also did it with his shirt off and looked just....


Well, this isnt EAYOR.

 

[sportscoach]

He also did it with his shirt off and looked just....


Well, this isnt EAYOR.

Well you have a thread to start in there it seems! Lol

I think for a change, we should actually go into season with a competent team and FO with adding the OLine like we did and adding a stud like Garrett

 

[dark2332]

Garret's pro day was FREAKY good.

We're finally going to have a dynamic player to impact the game in so many different ways on every play. It's been a long time coming.

As long as we don't Browns up the pick, yes.

 

[AZ_]

 

[sportscoach]

I would be okay getting him in the 4th round to be sincere.