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The Gut Check No.361: The Late Late Show
10 late-round picks and UDFA rookies to monitor this spring and summer for your fantasy leagues. WHO CARES? 10 UDFAs That Matter, Deep Surveillance, The Late Late Show, whatever the title I’ve used to profile late-round rookies and free agents, most of them won’t amount to anything in fantasy football. Who cares about undrafted free agents? Thomas Rawls…
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LA Rams Report Pod: Post-Draft Analysis
My thoughts on the Rams draft. From the LA Rams Report site: Flipping Tables returns to draft analysis with Rookie Scouting Portfolio author Matt Waldman. Cam and Josh dig into the deepest recesses of Matt’s brain for knowledge on new Rams QB Jared Goff. How does Matt view Jared? Did the Rams give up too much? What…
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RSP Boiler Room: Utah RB Devontae Booker
Two plays, both display Booker’s skill, but one also has a lot of luck involved. Learn the difference. Skill and luck. Depending on the bias of the fan or the depth of observation, these two things get confused every time there’s a game on television. Booker is a skilled back, but even skilled backs get lucky…
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RSP Film Room No.74: QB Vad Lee
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RSP Boiler Room No.25: RB Wendell Smallwood & The Craft of The Gap Play
Gap blocks require its own brand of patience from a runner. A Smallwood run versus Texas illustrates the importance of pacing to set up blocks. Walter Payton. O.J. Simpson. Thurman Thomas. Watch highlights of some of the great runners in football history and you’ll see plays where they extend an arm to the back of…
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Integration, Projection, and Evaluation
Integrating layers of information is vital to good player evaluation. An example of studying Braxton Miller reveals why. There are very few skill players I haven’t seen before I got to Mobile, but my first look at Braxton Miller came at the Senior Bowl last week. Waiting on Miller was by design. The former Buckeye quarterback has only…
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North Practice Day 2
More clues about the skill prospects emerged from the second day of North practices. Waldman has you covered. Let’s begin with a bit of advice for observing practice in an outdoor stadium during cold, wet weather. Layers are essential. But you knew that if you weren’t raised by wolves. A small athletic bag stuffed with a…
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Reads Listens Views 1/1/2016
Welcome to the draft season, Vad Lee’s Rorschach answer, 2016 RSP Early-Bird Welcome If you’re new to the Rookie Scouting Portfolio blog, welcome. On Fridays I post links to pieces that I’ve found personally compelling or to content I hope will scratch that itch, but I haven’t read yet. As I’ve long said about this…
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RSP Film Room No.68: WR De’Runnya Wilson, Mississippi St.
Turron Davenport of Football Gameplan joins the show and brings with him compelling admiration for Wilson’s NFL potential. Davenport and I share the same addition for receiver play, which always makes watching the position with him a good time. When I asked him to return to the show, he broached the idea of studying Wilson.…
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RSP Boiler Room No.13: USC QB Cody Kessler, Flow Within Structure
The USC quarterback demonstrates that good game management often means sticking to the overall structure of the play, but making small adjustments to its execution. For analysis of skill players in this year’s draft class, download the 2016 Rookie Scouting Portfolio – early-bird purchase for April 1 download available now. Better yet, if you’re a fantasy owner…