NFL 2019 NFL Draft Prospects Discussion

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The Draft Network, which is one of the better draftnik websites out there imo and has a very fancy looking mock draft machine, has put out their draft prospectus today.

It's free and available for download from their site here: https://thedraftnetwork.com/articles/the-draft-network-presents-the-2019-nfl-draft-prospectus

A lot of their write-ups on the prospects on the site itself haven't been updated since before the Combine, but on a quick flick through this does include Combine stats so I can only assume that it is up-to-date.

 

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I'm starting to get a hard on for Zach Allen after listening to TFG rave about him for the past two months. Wouldn't mind thePanthers taking him at #16 honestly.

Agree with his thoughts about Sweat, overrated.

Disagree with him and Holman thinking Metcalf is in Megatron's ballpark, ridiculous

 

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NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports LSU CB Greedy Williams hasn't taken any official-30 visits.
This is surprising but not unprecedented for a potential Day 1 pick (Tyler Eifert did it in 2013). Williams looked liked a top-20 lock early on but there are reportedly "several teams" that don't have first-round grades on him. Our own Josh Norris has Williams going to the Raiders with the No. 24 pick in his latest mock.
SOURCE: Ian Rapoport on Twitter
Apr 13, 2019, 8:20 AM

 

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San Francisco or elsewhere, will Nick Bosa have a locker-room problem?
Posted by Mike Florio on April 14, 2019, 10:10 AM EDT

Top-five draft prospect Nick Bosa said he has stopped tweeting political statements in support of the sitting President due to concerns that he’ll “end up in San Francisco.” But could the truth be that he’s far more concerned about whichever locker room he lands in, whether it be the 49ers or any other team?
It’s one thing to have digital footprints that support an intensely polarizing political figure. It’s quite another to have a history of comments and related activities that create questions regarding a potential racial bias.
Whether he has one or doesn’t isn’t the issue. The issue is whether reasonable minds may differ on whether he does — and whether that in turn will make it harder for him to be accepted by an NFL roster.
A Saturday tweet from Jemele Hill, who retweeted a link to an item from Robert Littal’s BlackSportsOnline.com, pulled this much closer analysis of Bosa’s decision to abandon political tweets into mainstream view.
“Nick Bosa is weak,” Hill wrote. “If you truly believe in what you stand for, you have no problem defending it. Bosa wasn’t just worried about how a city would receive him, he was worried about having to explain himself in the lockeroom. He wasn’t ready for that smoke.”
Again, this isn’t about whether Nick Bosa actually has any sort of racial bias. It’s about whether his strategy is less about avoiding problems in San Francisco and more about avoiding problems with future teammates.
Bills quarterback Josh Allen was able to overcome potential locker-room issues after being drafted by the Bills in 2018, based on much older tweets that could be more easily attributed to the younger-and-dumber version of himself. On the other end of the spectrum, former Eagles receiver Riley Cooper, who with the help of Mike Vick (they shared an agent at the time) overcame an ugly incident at a Kenny Chesney concert in Philly, never found footing elsewhere after being released by the Eagles at only 28 years of age. (More than a year later, Cooper got a look-see in Tampa, but wasn’t offered a contract.)
In the aftermath of Bosa’s declaration that he has stopped tweeting in support of the President due to concerns that he’ll be drafted by the 49ers, it was fair to wonder why he or any other pro athlete should have to keep that aspect of their lives secret. The issues raised by Hill and Littal make Bosa’s decision less confusing, if he indeed was thinking about how those comments could impact his not-too-distant NFL future, wherever it may play out.

 

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This time of year is always entertaining with people digging for dirt on first round picks.

Larry Tunsil's being the most epic. Was that same year Lall Collins fell out of the first round coz he was suspected of muder? Madness.

 

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Recent drafts show not much middle ground for first-round quarterbacks
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 16, 2019, 6:02 PM EDT

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Recent drafts have shown a trend about when teams pick quarterbacks: Often early in the first round and late in the first round, but not much in the middle of the first round or the second round.
That quarterback is the NFL’s most important position goes without saying, and that good quarterbacks on their rookie contracts are the league’s most valuable asset is well established. That’s why so many quarterbacks go high in the first round, including four in the Top 10 picks last year.
But in the middle of the first round, something interesting happens: Teams don’t really take quarterbacks in that range. In the last 10 drafts, the only quarterbacks to go in the 13 to 20 range of the first round are EJ Manuel (16th overall in 2013) and Josh Freeman (17th overall in 2009).
Teams do take quarterbacks late in the first round, however, often trading back into the late first round for players like Lamar Jackson (32nd overall last year), Paxton Lynch (26th overall in 2016) and Teddy Bridgewater (32nd overall in 2014). The advantage to taking a quarterback late in the first round instead of early in the second round is that players chosen in the first round get fifth-year options on their rookie contracts, while players chosen in the second round become free agents after four years.
So NFL teams either take a quarterback high in the first round or move back into the first round for a quarterback who falls. The teens are a dead zone for quarterbacks.
Also a dead zone for quarterbacks is the second round: In the last two drafts only one quarterback, DeShone Kizer in 2017, has been chosen in the second round. Over the last 10 drafts only 10 quarterbacks have gone in the second round, while 30 quarterbacks have gone in the first round. If a team thinks a quarterback is good enough to draft in the second round, that team will probably trade up and draft him late in the first round.

 

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I knew the 2011 draft was good, but **** me, after just watching this i forget how loaded it actually was.



What an amazing first round outside of the QBs selected

 

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John Bosa will join Archie Manning in an exclusive place in NFL history
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 17, 2019, 2:51 PM EDT

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John Bosa was selected by the Dolphins with the 16th overall pick in the 1987 NFL draft. In 2016, his son, Joey Bosa, was chosen with the third overall pick in the NFL draft. Next Thursday night, John Bosa will see another son drafted in the first round, and in the process join some exclusive company.
When Nick Bosa is drafted, likely in the first few picks and surely in the first round, John Bosa will become just the second player in NFL history to get drafted in the first round and then have two sons drafted in the first round.
The other was Archie Manning, who was the second overall pick in the 1971 NFL draft and whose sons Peyton (1998) and Eli (2004) were both chosen first overall.
The Bosa family actually has a fourth first-round pick: Eric Kumerow, selected 16th overall in 1965, is the brother of Joey and Nick’s mom.
Potential first round picks Irv Smith Jr. and Devin Bush Jr. are both the sons of first round picks as well, so Thursday night could feel like deja vu for three families.

 

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Yeah, Jones sucks, anyone GM selecting him in the first won't have a job in 3 years time.

If the Jets take Oliver at #3 they are ******ed. Seems to me to be a classic smokescreen a few days out tho, not even Mccaggnan could be that dumb.

Much in the same way its now being reported the Cards will pass on Murray, don't believe it for a second, just trying to create more of a market for Rosen to QB desperate teams.

 

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I can't tell if I'm sold on Bosa or not.

Seems to do everything right - but he's injury prone and QB's are moving the ball out quicker these days.

I wonder if his strengths will be nullified by the way the game is moving.

 

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Yeah, Jones sucks, anyone GM selecting him in the first won't have a job in 3 years time.

This is why Gil Brandt needs to be put out to pasture after saying this about Jones...

“I. Love. Dan Jones,” Brandt said. “I have to say this carefully: When you watch him and you go back (20) years and watch Peyton Manning, you are watching the same guy. He’s athletic. He doesn’t have a rocket for an arm, but neither did Peyton. Very smart.”

 

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I though Gil Brandt's draft thoughts were widely regarded as being what Dallas thinks?

 

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Mike Mayock: If you draft Alabama and Clemson guys, you’ll do well

Posted by Josh Alper on May 6, 2019, 6:48 AM EDT

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Mike Mayock’s first draft since becoming the General Manager of the Raiders is in the books and one thing that became clear as it unfolded was that Mayock enjoyed his first scouting trip in his new job.
Mayock went to the college title game between Clemson and Alabama and wound up taking four players who saw action in that game. Defensive end Clelin Ferrell, safety Trayvon Mullen and wide receiver Hunter Renfrow came from Clemson and running back Josh Jacobs made the jump from Alabama.
Mayock said he “didn’t consciously set out to make that happen,” but he also sounds like he would have been happy with a draft entirely composed of players from the two schools.
“I felt it on the field before the game, these were the two best college programs in the country and have been for several years now,” Mayock said, via Albert Breer of SI.com. “And when you walk around on the field before the game and watch these guys warm up, and you do your body types, you’re taking notes — they look like two NFL teams. I said it to somebody, I don’t remember who, and I remember thinking to myself, ‘Man, if you just draft from these two teams, you’re gonna do well, forget the rest of the country.”
It remains to be seen if Mayock’s right that the quartet’s college success will lead to the same in the NFL, but they’re banking on those winning ways coming with them to Oakland.