Greetings once again from “The Padded Cell”. The news around the NFL has been nothing short of fast and furious since the end of the combine. With so many free agents changing teams and with a number of significant trades taking place, it’s kind of hard to fathom that the draft is just over a month away. Nevertheless, it’s true. Silly season is in full bloom and the combination of information and misinformation is bound to reach an all new high come draft day.
With the developments
Before he even stepped onto the Lucas Oil Field turf to participate in the NFL Scouting Combine, Penn State running back Saquon Barkley was listed as the 2018 draft’s highest rated player with a 7.45 rating by the league’s own website staff evaluator. His workout performance appeared to do nothing to delineate from that. However, I decided to go back and look at the stats from the games played this past season; and I came out of it with mixed thoughts.
While it’s true that
People ask me a lot, “Who do you like at quarterback?” And while there are specific traits that I look for, no draft candidate is ever a slam dunk; especially at that position. In fact, of all the quarterbacks that will get drafted in the first round (regardless of the year), you can pretty much count on half of them being busts. Why is that? There are a number of reasons, but I think the primary one is the fact that the NFL is such a quarterback driven league and teams are looking
