(04-19-2021, 09:11 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I honest to God, don't understand these rankings. It's not because I don't agree with them, because I know everyone has different opinions, but the synopsis' of the players make no sense. For instance they rank Walker Little #26 overall when he hasn't played football in college for 2 years! How can you rank him that high when he has been out of the game that long? Then they have Alex Leatherwood ranked #40 overall, but explains that he has trouble with speed rushers and needs to improve his pass blocking. They say basically the same thing about Jackson Carman at #48. Liam Eichenberg is ranked #52, yet they say his grades improved greatly every year and he had a much better overall grade than both Leatherwood and Carman and he's started for Notre Dame at LT for the last 3 seasons, but he is ranked much lower than Little who hasn't played in 2 years? How does this make sense? It seems as though they contradict themselves a lot in these rankings.

Also, I know the QB's in this draft are gonna get way over-drafted due to it being a premium position, as well as a #1 need for most teams. With that said, there is absolutely no way you can look at this QB class and say 4 of them should be ranked in the top 10 overall players. That is ridiculous! Trey Lance has taken only like around 360 passing snaps in his entire college career against low level competition. The guy is an enigma and they have him ranked as the #10 overall player? These guys are either looking at "potential" way too much or they don't look at success at the college level the way they should. If you are a GM and you rely on drafting a player based upon what he has the potential to do, over what he has accomplished, you're gonna get fired sooner rather than later.

I would argue with the underlined sentence.  Players should be drafted based on what the GM expects them to do in the future.  That is all about potential.  Past performance is an indication of potential.  So are a lot of other things that have to be taken into account, such as height, weight, speed, and what they show on tape.  But drafting has to be based on potential and the likelihood of reaching that potential.  Potential = talent.

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