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Boiler Room: UNLV WR Devante Davis
When the football world labels a prospect as “raw,” it can be a positive or negative connotation. How does one discern the difference? Devante Davis’ play provides some guidelines. It’s never as simple as I’m about to describe, but there are two general meanings for the term “raw prospect.” One describes the athletic talent not…
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RSP Film Room Hangout: Iowa OT Brandon Scherff w/Lance Zierlein
Lance Zierlein of the Sideline View stops by and gives a clinic on evaluating tackle play. If you want to say you learned something about football today (and it be a dramatic understatement), watch and learn from Zierlein in this fantastic hangout. Co-owner of The Sideline View, Zierlein teams with former NFL coaches and personnel…
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Boiler Room: RB Joe Bergeron
Former Texas running back Joe Bergeron has size and strength, but these two qualities alone do not make a powerful NFL runner — see Andre Williams Joe Bergeron is 6-1, 232 pounds with thighs that resemble Earl Campbell’s. The big back scored 25 touchdowns in three years with the Longhorns, earning 1592 career yards from…
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Football Outsiders: Rutgers TE Tyler Kroft
There’s a growing diversity of players that are labeled tight ends in the NFL. Rutgers’ Tyler Kroft flashes upside to become more than a receiving specialist, but there’s no guarantee he’ll fulfill this potential. By Matt Waldman If there’s one prospect type in football that rarely lives up to the first-year hype of the general…
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UGA RB Todd Gurley: RSP Film Room No.7 w/guest Cecil Lammey
RSP Film Room: Todd Gurley, Cecil Lammey, South Carolina tape? Doesn’t get much better. Good friend Cecil Lammey of Footballguys and ESPN Radio Denver stops by the RSP Film Room to take a look at UGA RB Todd Gurley against South Carolina. Gurley is one of the top backs in this class and arguably the…
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Boiler Room: WR Kevin White
With receivers like WVU’s Kevin White, it’s often how you start and not how you finish — especially in the red zone. A player whose stock is rising this year is West Virginia wide receiver Kevin White. At 6-3, 210 pounds, White has the muscular dimensions of a player like Michael Crabtree while wearing the…
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Futures: Washington LB/DB/RB Shaq Thompson
Futures: Washington LB/DB/RB Shaq Thompson By Matt Waldman Author’s Note: For all of the RSP Film Room excerpts with Ryan Riddle, you’ll have to click the red and white play button in the center of the screen and then click the refresh symbol (the half circle with an arrow in the lower left corner of…
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Boiler Room: Auburn WR Sammie Coates
Coates is a great athlete, but a raw receiver. Two plays reveal where he struggles, but why there’s good reason for optimism for his professional development. FoxSports reporter Bruce Feldman has Sammie Coates as his “freak dela creme” on his annual list of great college football athletes. If you choose to click on the link, you’ll…
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No-Huddle Series: Yabba Dabba Yeldon
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Futures at Football Outsiders: Alabama WR Amari Cooper
Futures: Alabama WR Amari Cooper by Matt Waldman Alabama wide receiver Amari Cooper tries too hard. Think that’s an odd criticism? Go watch Reggie Bush during his first few years in New Orleans or Robert Griffin III after his rookie year in Washington. They’re poster children for Hero Syndrome — a psychological football malady that…