The Rookie Scouting Portfolio (RSP)

Tag: 2017 Matt Waldman RSP

  • RSP Boiler Room: No.57 – Running Back Leonard Fournette (LSU) and Pacing

    RSP Boiler Room: No.57 – Running Back Leonard Fournette (LSU) and Pacing

    When the brakes go out on the dump truck rolling down a mountainside is bearing down on you, the slightest change in movement will create a reaction.  Fournette’s best fit is a gap-heavy scheme that creates a downhill exit ramp for him to do his best rendition of a runaway dump truck. And Fournette knows how to…

  • RSP Boiler Room No.54: RB Leonard Fournette (LSU)

    RSP Boiler Room No.54: RB Leonard Fournette (LSU)

    One thing is indisputable about Fournette: He wants to impose his will on every opponent in his path.  When I get lost in a daydream, and that daydream is about football, one of my football fantasies is to accelerate through an opponent and leave him in my wake like a stray bowling pin flying from…

  • 2017 NFL Rookie Prospects and Draft Analysis

    2017 NFL Rookie Prospects and Draft Analysis

    Links to all essays, analysis, Senior Bowl coverage, and scouting reports about 2017 NFL Draft prospects come from research I undertake to write the Rookie Scouting Portfolio Publication. Now in the 12th year of publication, the RSP is the best of both worlds: a summarized magazine of reports, rankings, and analysis that also shows its work at the…

  • RSP Boiler Room No.50: RB Jamaal Williams, BYU

    RSP Boiler Room No.50: RB Jamaal Williams, BYU

    While I watch a lot of tape on each player, one play can tell you a lot. This play from the Jamaal Williams library screams NFL running back.   When Jamaal Williams was an underclassman, he was a tall, skinny runner with speed, balance, and moves to spare. Combine his frame, his athletic ability, and…

  • RSP Boiler Room No.48: RB D’onta Foreman (Texas) Part II, The Goods

    RSP Boiler Room No.48: RB D’onta Foreman (Texas) Part II, The Goods

    Everything you need from a running back? Maybe… Walking off the bus, 6’1” 249 pound D’onta Foreman looks like the kind of back who can do everything on a football field. Considering that Foreman’s name was on a list of the most elusive running backs in the Big 12 after some news outlet polled folks…

  • RSP Boiler Room No.47: RB D’onta Foreman (Texas)

    RSP Boiler Room No.47: RB D’onta Foreman (Texas)

    There are a lot of good things to say about D’onta Foreman’s game. I’ll be featuring a couple of those things in the next episode. This time, we’re looking at a moment of mistaken identity on Foreman’s part.  I enjoyed watching D’onta Foreman this week. The 6’1″, 249-pound running back has traits I like. He has…

  • RSP Film Room No. 50 – WR Mike Williams (Clemson) w/ Matt Harmon

    RSP Film Room No. 50 – WR Mike Williams (Clemson) w/ Matt Harmon

    We kick off the 2016 RSP Film Room like the way we ended it: Matt Harmon and I studying a wide receiver.  Clemson’s Mike Williams has the build of Martavis Bryant and A.J. Green. Does he have the same game? Matt Harmon and I didn’t see enough contested plays involving Williams against N.C. State and Oklahoma…