2025 NFL Draft Talk

 Every year, there are players not talked about a lot in the draft that make a big impact on the team they are drafted to. There are always players I watch during college football season that I think won't measure well or test well, but they are simply good at football. Sometimes the measurements and analytics just don't matter if someone is that good at what they do. On the other hand, some players are projects, and they take years to reach their full potential, so it is always a tough choice. In this blog, I will be going through two of the players I don't think get talked about a lot, but they could make a big impact on a team.  To start, Mike Green from Marshall has the potential to be incredibly good in the NFL. He measures pretty poorly at a small 6"3 251. This is undersized for an NFL defensive end, but he is so quick and explosive that it could not affect him much in the NFL. This will make it hard for him to effectively stop the run and fill gaps, but the upsi...

 There are many different things to consider when scouting NFL draft prospects. Not only do skill, athleticism, age, and playstyle affect how NFL teams view prospects, but there is way more that goes into it. Just to start, positions are graded differently based on the position's importance. Some people who don't watch a lot of football may assume running backs are a premier position because of how often they touch the ball, but it really could not be further from the truth. It is so easy to find good running backs later in the draft, and you only have to pay them a fraction of what the top guys are getting paid. The reason they don't get paid a lot is because of how many hits they take, it wouldn't be logical for teams to pay a lot of money for these guys just for a couple of years of production. This brings up another good point, it is important to look at the usage rate of these players coming out of college. You do not want to select a running back who started for 4...