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Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room No.145: QB Daniel Jones (Duke)
Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room shares excerpts from six games of Duke quarterback Daniel Jones, a 2019 NFL Draft prospect that is held in high esteem by some quarters of the draftnik community. For better or worse, some players’ games are not the sum of their parts. Bill Walsh shared this thought in his quarterback…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room No.202: QB Daniel Jones (Duke), Fast and Slow Processing
Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room profiles examples of fast and slow processing from the pocket from Duke quarterback and 2019 NFL Draft prospect Daniel Jones. I understand the buzz surrounding Daniel Jones. Big Draft covets tall quarterbacks and Jones is not only tall, but he also has a good feel for the pocket and skill…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room: The Value in Defining Your Scouting Process — Quarterbacks
Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room uses his 50-yard touchdown pass by 2019 NFL Draft prospect Gardner Minshew II to discuss the importance of defining your evaluation criteria before scouting players. Imagine you’re a head coach for an NFL team that needs a quarterback. During preliminary meetings with your organization’s scouting director and general manager in…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room No.143: QB Kyler Murray (Oklahoma)
Matt Waldman delivers a 10-game, hour-long analysis on 2019 NFL Draft prospect Kyler Murray that includes roughly 50 plays, and the player comparison is not what you’d expect. Kyler Murray is a challenging evaluation. He has elite physical skills in a below-average frame. A first-year starter in an offense that Baker Mayfield parlayed into a bright…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room No.142: RB Bruce Anderson (North Dakota State) with Michael Kist
Bleeding Green Nation writer and producer, Michael Kist joins Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room for an in-depth film study of NFL Draft prospect Bruce Anderson, the talented North Dakota State running back. The weekend before the Senior Bowl, I tweeted that there would a running back participating in the week of practices whose style of…
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QB Kyler Murray’s Short Fuse (Oklahoma): An RSP Film Room Preview
Matt Waldman has few worries about 2019 NFL Draft prospect Kyler Murray’s height. He’s more concerned with the quarterback’s short fuse in the pocket. The concerns about Kyler Murray’s height will dominate the draft season analysis about the Sooner quarterback’s NFL potential. However, it’s Murray’s speed and quickness that often crosses the line from a…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room No.141: QB Dwayne Haskins (Ohio State)
Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room features 2019 NFL Draft prospect Dwayne Haskins and draws from seven of the Ohio State quarterback’s games to illustrate why Haskins will likely be an early pick. The 2019 quarterback class doesn’t carry the gravitas of its 2017-18 predecessors. Still, Dwayne Haskins has the talent to develop into an NFL…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room No.201: WR Jovon Durante (FAU), Compensating Qualities
Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room examines three plays from FAU WR Jovon Durante’s tape and shows some compensating qualities that can make a lighter than average receiver a compelling prospect. Whether they realize it or not, a lot of people use a positional template for their evaluation of players. These boundaries that govern physical dimensions…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room No.200: RB Elijah Holyfield (Georgia)
Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room examines three plays of 2019 NFL Draft prospect Elijah Holyfield and reveals the value of the connection among the eyes, mind, and feet in the running back’s game. I’m about to put a few details of Elijah Holyfield’s game under close scrutiny. For some, it means I’m about to nitpick.…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room No.198: WR Parris Campbell, Jr. (Ohio St), A Projection Worth the Investment
Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room examines the fundamentals of Ohio State wide receiver Parris Campbell, Jr. — a likely projection pick in the 2019 NFL Draft that Waldman believes is worth the investment. If we remove the hair-splitting that is draft analysis, all prospects are projections. Still, in this subset of football culture, the “projection pick” is…