Odell Beckham -- Mike Wallace

If they were like crack addicts on the street begging for it. This is something they might be asking for. Wide receiver talent. We just seem to have problems finding it. Like we know these guys are all kinda bunched together but who is at the top of the bunch. How bout a little Mike Wallace clone in Odell Beckham. Mike Wallace in terms of play marking ability but with much improved hands. They are both the same size and while Wallace has elite speed, Beckham can hang and could potentially dominate any cornerback he faces.

Odell Beckham
LSU

Height: 181 cm
Weight: 14.1 stone

Strengths: Speed, Burst, Agility, Hands, X Factor, Playmaking

                         

Bio: Watch the fuck out! This guy can play. He isn't the biggest, strongest, or fastest but he is very good in all three. You can't talk about this guy without talking about his quickness. He is very good agility side to side and in burst up the field. This is a big time player. 

Player comp: Mike Wallace, Wide Receiver

                

Player Profile: P Rich

I was down on this guy. I was down on this guy. I was like stop with the hype. Seriously, stop it. But I was wrong about this guy. He is P Rich all damn day. I don't know what I'm smoking.

Nevertheless, this is a guy who has primetime written all over him. He is electric fast. That's the thing with all of these wideouts. For the most part, they are electric fast and about to storm the league. Although, wide outs rarely produce 1,000 yards year one. Paul Richardson I'd throw in the hat to be in that conversation. This guy seems like the perfect wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles. He is a mix in between a DeSean Jackson and an Emmanuel Sanders. He isn't as polished and is still developing, so I like the Emmanuel Sanders comparison. Yet, he is taller than both but build, burst, speed is more in line with DeSean Jackson.

Paul Richardson
Colorado

Height: 183.8 cm
Weight: 12.5 stone

Strengths:  + +   Route Running
                 + + +  Fluidity
                 + + +  Speed
                 + + +  Hands
                 + + +  Burst

  **Will be #2 WR

Player comp: Emmanuel Sanders, Wide Receiver

Ronald Powell --> LaVar Arrington

You have to remember LaVar Arrington failed not for a lack of ability, but for a gross overstatement of one's stature. He failed because the expectations were too high. He was a very good player and had some injuries and when he couldn't live up to the "LaVar leap" craze he just quit and rode off into the sunset with tons of cash. I think Ronald Powell will be a very good NFL player and a sure-fire starter in the league. I think he could be your poor mans Jadeveon Clowney if you want a high potential playmaker that is a bit under the radar. I like Powell there more so than William Clarke DE WVU. Powell has a good initial burst and a relentless nature to his game. He is in position and has good side to side quickness. He is an ideal fit in a 3-4 on the ILB position. Hell, in Pittsburgh, this is great. You take a Jarvis Jones at OLB and you know what I think Ronald Powell can do more for you than Jarvis Jones and that's not his natural position. Sadly, this is true.

Ronald Powell
Florida

Height: 190.8 cm
Weight: 17 stone

Strengths: + + +  Demeanor
                   + +    Speed
                 + + +  Athleticism
                   +       X Factor
                  + +    Strength
                  + +    Lift

Player comp: LaVar Leap, Linebacker

Aaron Donald --> Warren Sapp

Aaron Donald
Pitt

Height: 184.7 cm
Weight: 20.3 stone

Speed: 4.65 seconds

Mini Chalk: Aaron Donald could be one of the most exciting players in this years draft. I am going to compare him with Warren Sapp because Warren Sapp is a dominant 3-gap player, perhaps the most dominant. I think this kid rivals what he can do. He is slippery, strong, and a force in the backfield all day long. He spends the weekends there, literally. Not that funny, ha! I think he is scheme versatile and is so versatile he could probably even play some 3-4 ILB. He could be like a Levon Kirkland in that mold. He has the short-area quickness to pull it off! That's why when you say a statement like that then you know for damn sure he can play along the defensive line and will cause those big saltys a tough time. And he doesn't lack the strength for the DL and he doesn't have short arms either. His short size is ideal, given his strength/arm length, at the nose tackle position because he can drive out low and get under your pads every play. Every. Single. play. You can't stop him, literally, because he is shorter than you, yet, stronger, and faster at the same time. How the hell does that happen? Oh yeah and he could play 3-4 DE or 4-3 DT. A 4-3 DT in a four man rush only the QB wouldn't have a chance. Smart teams gobble up guys like this because I want to run a 4-3 4 man rush and then switch up the next play and run 2 DL and have a crazy zone blitz. Guys like that you can't put a value on them. There should be no question to his ability as he did win four postseason awards. I guess the guy can play!

Player comp: Warren Sapp, Defensive Line
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Warren Sapp 
The U

Height: 187.9 cm
Weight: 21.4 stone

Speed: 4.68 seconds

Justin Gilbert --> Patrick Peterson

Justin Gilbert
Oklahoma State

Height: 185.7 cm
Weight: 14.4 stone

Strengths: + + + Speed
                  + + + Athleticism
                  + + + Ball Skills
                   + +   "Lift"
                   + +   Tackler
                  + + + Playmaker
                  + + + X-Factor


Mini Chalk: If you wondered why I call it a mini chalk, it is because this is like a fireside chat that FDR gave to our forefathers and fellow brethren before us. A short, sweet talk on what you're getting into and peek into the future. So. huddle around those MacBooks. This is one of my favorite players like a similar favorite player in Patrick Peterson. Gilbert is by no means Patrick Peterson, but Gilbert is an elegant-strider as I mentioned with Stanley Jean-Baptiste, and Patrick Peterson before. He is a top-notch, elite athlete. He has the all the swag in the world, and he is a dynamic playmaker on the defensive side of the ball; which is very rare. He can pick it for six ... just like that.


Player comp: Patrick Peterson, Cornerback

Player Profile: Khairi Fortt

Here is a guy you have never heard of! Again. Here is a guy that is a Linebacker U product. Here is a guy who is also a California Bears product. Ohh, one of those guys. I always love those stories. A guy didn't catch on for some reason for whatever reason and goes to another team and somehow has a heroic comeback or now people see him in good light or whatever reason. Not sure but it sounds a lot like Jerry. Ohh. A lot of time the best guys don't get selected for reasons beyond their control and this guy is either peep quiet because everyone loves him or they don't care about him. This guy is a sure-fire day three pick. He could go undrafted. And here is a NFL player. Come on, people. What are you watching?

Khairi Fortt
Cal

Height: 188.5 cm
Weight: 17.7 stone

Mini Chalk: Teams around the NFL looking for a 3-4 ILB this is your perfect guy. He looks like a LaMarr Woodley build, but pre-fat camp Woodley. Like lean, cut, well-built. He is a downhill linebacker. He is pretty good at the pop and shed, a key for 3-4 ILBs, and can rush the passer pretty well for ILBs. He has long arms that help him engage the offensive linemen and he has the strength to get off of him. His best asset might be his athleticism, very good tools there. He is very strong, can jump, pretty explosive, all-around player. He is the perfect "Buck" LB in the 3-4 and when he needs to cover in situational football he isn't a liability there, just average in that department.

Player comp: Hardy Nickerson, Linebacker

New Trend in DB? wah wha wah??!!?

Two part series on some of the new type of DBs in the NFL game today. Here are two prospects that have caught my eye and from looking at tape on these guys. This could get good. These guys are basically like NFL WR's that have converted to DB and are able to survive in this league because of Goodell and the emphasis on de-tackling. Less contact, less concussions, less violence, which on his end serves him well, but I don't get anything out of it.

The first guy here is Stanley Jean-Baptiste out of Nebraska. He is a tall, rangy, guy and I just think if the Seahawks get some of these guys it could be the end of days for parity in the NFL. These are the guys I need, people. No one is reading ... yet. How can I cover Calvin Johnson? He is too fast, he is too tall, he can jump too high, he is too strong? Where that is an incomplete thought, there is a complete answer. You get someone just like him to the closest quality. Now Calvin is the coolest and the face of any ad campaign I'd run, but on game day you don't need someone perfect to cover him. You just need someone good enough with some help from teammates and coaches that are part of the solution, not the problem, and you can hold him to 2 catches for 29 yards.

Stanley Jean-Baptiste
Nebraska

Height: 189 cm
Weight: 15.5 stone

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Now, this is an excellent photo because you can kind of see how he looks like a wide receiver here. Patrick Peterson looks this way as well. Usually when someone is tall and I call them elegant-striders, as they just flow so gracefully, yet, with so much velocity.

Mini Chalk-Statistical Domination: This could have big time written all over it. Like BIG time. BIG 16 dream conference BIG. He has the potential to be an absolute superstar. Now, I created a little something, something called "lift" rating. This is the players lift off the ground in terms of true dynamics. In terms of this rating, two men stood out. Stanley Jean-Baptiste and Keith McGill. Now, I will not reveal their numbers for pure awesomeness reasons, I will reveal that almost ALL players were clustered around a central mean and median with some below the mean as well, except for these two. Now, the sample was small, but it included 20 of the elite and also "elite" players in this year's draft. Both McGill and Stanley Jean-Baptiste were two standard deviations from the mean and Baptiste was slightly more than two standard deviations from the mean. Now, there is a phrase "off the charts" that gets thrown around and there is literally a place on the chart where it does not exist any more, called an outlier. That is what you have here. That's what I want on my team. A bunch of outliers. Kinda like saying A-Rod on the Yankees, well you used to be able to say, he stood out, because of his native ability. He was an outlier.

Baptiste also makes plays during tape, so he is not just a freak of nature like Usain Bolt that can't do shit for brains other than run. He missed the double stamp in two marks to quantity explosion, barely. As a matter of fact next to his lift rating he has a +/- to indicate hey he's got it, there could easily be some human error here or he tests a little better the next day. Or better yet, we make sure he hits both explosion ratings and take care of this young man. 

Player comp: Richard Sherman, Cornerback

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The second guy here is a sir Keith McGill of Utah. Not sure if he is idolized there, but Utah, I think Mormons, and Johnny Utah, and both bring a bunch of funny thoughts to mind. Keith McGill same thing. "Lift" rating is off the charts. When I talk "lift" rating you should be thinking Marty McFly and those cool shoes. Like he gets "UPPP". McGill received two plus marks (out of two) in explosion to go with his ridiculous "lift". I'll put it this way. Ed Reynolds (2nd round pick to some people?) is probably in the Tom Zbikowski mold looking at his "lift" and I haven't calculated Zibby's lift, nor will I, because sometimes there are no need to confirm that assertion. There are guys I can tell you if they're good by their numbers, and when I hear a guys numbers sometimes I literally giggle to myself, almost uncontrollably, because it is like if I had a million dollars, I would guess that exact number to the hundredth, give or take a few ticks. Like "lift" you should be thinking push-up bra if you're not in the shoe game. It goes "UPP" and gives you an edge over the competition. It is almost required in today's game. Push-up bras that is. That's what these guys represent. Probably found some undrafted guys that succeed in the NFL with this cutting-edge, scientific-discovery, like the push-up bra.

Keith McGill

Utah

Height: 191.4 cm

Weight: 15 stone

Player comp: Antonio Cromartie, Defensive Back