2021 NFL Draft

Interesting tid I saw:

Yep. Fun stuff. Rosen in AZ. Tua in Miami. Patience is dropping in the NFL. I can remember back in the day when a rookie QB didn't see the field until season three. Now some are on their third team by then.

Just a tid I saw:

Just how much of a crapshoot will this draft be? Peter King puts it in perspective in his weekly FMIA article. It's possible players will be selected knowing little about their medical condition and possibly having never met them face to face at any point. Here's an excerpt from the article:

"This is the kind of pre-draft season it’s been: There’s a first-round pass-rush prospect from the University of Miami named Gregory Rousseau. High school wideout/safety. College history, checkered. Year one: Played a few snaps as a freshman, got hurt, redshirted. Year two: ACC Defensive Rookie of the Year with 15.5 sacks. Year three: Opted out because of COVID concerns. Basically, four months of college game experience. No NFL Scouting Combine to probe him physically and mentally. No in-person visits with teams; Zoom meetings only. Rousseau is 20 years old.

Information sources? Shut off, pretty much, for so many of the prospects. In the fall, NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah wanted to know how much Rousseau weighed; he played his one season at 248, but it was a year later, and Rousseau, after opting out, was totally off the grid. “I DM’d him on Twitter, just trying to get info any way I could,” Jeremiah said. “And he wrote back: 262.”

“More than any year I’ve been doing this,” Jeremiah told me Saturday evening, “this draft’s a mystery. Say you’re watching a kid who played a season against great competition in the SEC this year, and you’re comparing him to a kid who opted out, maybe played nine or 10 games in 2019, and you haven’t seen him play football in over 400 days. It’s crazy.

I looked at five mock drafts over the weekend, and Gregory Rousseau ranged from 11 to 21 on each one. Let’s just say he’s the 16th pick. Some team is going to guarantee him $15 million in a rookie contract, perhaps not even meet him in person till late July (no one knows the COVID rules for off-season work), and pray this man who hasn’t played a football game in 520 days will be ready to rush the passer in an NFL game after seven weeks of professional training.

Yikes!"

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/03/07/nfl-draft-primer-quarterbacks-fmia-peter-king/

This isn't really correct and Peter King knows it. While there is no combine,medicals and such will still be done,just as they were last year.

Here's an excerpt from the memo sent to all teams in January advising the combine was cancelled,and outlining what the league was planning:

Top 12 linebackers for 2021 NFL Draft: Micah Parsons leads versatile class by Dane Brugler



2. Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, Notre Dame (6-2, 215 pounds)
3. Zaven Collins, Tulsa (6-3, 260 pounds)
4. Nick Bolton, Missouri (6-0, 235 pounds)
5. Jamin Davis, Kentucky (6-3, 236 pounds)
6. Jabril Cox, LSU (6-3, 233 pounds)
7. Baron Browning, Ohio State (6-3, 241 pounds)
8. Chazz Surratt, North Carolina (6-2, 227 pounds)
9. Pete Werner, Ohio State (6-1, 235 pounds)
10. Dylan Moses, Alabama (6-3, 235 pounds)
11. Monty Rice, Georgia (6-0, 238 pounds)
12. Isaiah McDuffie, Boston College (6-0, 226 pounds)

theathletic.com/2450758/2021/03/16/top-12-linebackers-for-2021-nfl-draft-micah-parsons-leads-versatile-class/

Let me know if you want to see the write-ups for any of these guys - each one has a couple of paragraphs to go with. Same goes for the DTs I just posted.