The Rookie Scouting Portfolio (RSP)

Tag: RSP Writers Project

  • GM Scenario No.3: The Freak Getting Freaky

    GM Scenario No.3: The Freak Getting Freaky

    Imagine a freakish athlete of Randy Moss’ caliber of skills as a left tackle but with the charisma of a veteran QB and the party habits of Manziel. A GM wouldn’t know whether to hug him or hit him. What is 2014’s Writer’s Project? This year’s RSPWP is a different take on team building. I…

  • Announcing The Third Annual RSP Writers’ Project

    Announcing The Third Annual RSP Writers’ Project

    The mission of the RSP Writers’ Project is to encourage writers and readers to expand their understanding of pro football through a written exercise. The first RSPWP was an exercise in team building with a salary cap. Several football writers, analysts, and former NFL scouts built teams and provided a written account of their process,…

  • RSPWP2: Waldman’s Early Thoughts

    RSPWP2: Waldman’s Early Thoughts

    I love this draft. It has defensive-minded Jene Bramel taking gunslinger Jay Cutler, yours truly ditching offense for two monolithic bad boys with wheels on the defensive line, and Football Outsiders’ founder Aaron Schatz talking intangibles. Intangibles! I have to admit, this project is a lot more fun that I even anticipated. The writers we have…

  • 2nd Annual RSP Writers Project: Project Draft

    2nd Annual RSP Writers Project: Project Draft

    Editor’s Note: Sigmund Bloom will be leading the 2nd Annual RSP Writer’s Project. If you missed the first Writer’s Project, we fielded teams with a salary cap. Here is Bloom’s letter to last year’s participants inviting them to the second iteration of this project. More coming soon. By Sigmund Bloom, Senior Writer/Co-Owner, Footballguys Football talk…

  • The RSP Writers Project: You Vote

    The RSP Writers Project: You Vote

    With the regular season coming to an end and it sounds like a good time to take a look back at the RSP Writers Project. If you’re not familiar with the project, I had the pleasure of hosting a group of football writers, former NFL players, and former NFL scouts whose job was to build…

  • Matt Waldman’s Second RSP Writers Squad

    This was actually my first squad, but admittedly I was a little uncomfortable going with so many first and second-year players as starters in my offense. As the summer played out, I see that perhaps my first inclination has as much or more promise as the team I published last month. The only changes I…

  • RSP Writers Q&A: Jene Bramel, Footballguys.com

    Bramel RSP Q&A You gotta love reading the work of a writer who understands how to complement simplicity with complexity and present it in an easy to understand manner. I think Jene Bramel does this as well as anyone in the football hemisphere today. Whether its injuries, X’s and O’s, or fantasy football strategy, Bramel…

  • RSP Writers Project Team: Jene Bramel, Footballguys.com

    Jene Bramel’s football writing career is filled with three-letter abbreviations: NFL, IDP, PUP, ACL, MCL, and FBG. The Footballguys writer is one of the most well-regarded fantasy analysts for injuries and individual defensive players. The author of the injury blog Second Opinion also contributes to the RSP once in a while. He was also a…

  • RSP Writers Project Team: Joe Goodberry, CincyJungle.com

    Joe Goodberry writes for Cincyjungle.com. A regular of the football Twitterverse, Goodberry is one of the diehard draftniks frequenting social networks during the offseason. His RSP Writers Project Team is quarterback-driven on offense and features a 4-3 defense with two well-known 3-4 outside linebackers as bookends in his front. Stay tuned for Goodberry’s Q&A and…

  • RSP Writers Project: Zach Bahner, NFL Draft Hub

    Zach Bahner is an analyst at NFL Draft Hub. Bahner is a Miami Dolphins, Indianapolis Colts, and Notre Dame Fighting Irish fan, which is an odd combination when one considers that most Miami Dolphins fans are Miami Hurricanes fans. Bahner’s team has some personnel fresh to this project and I’m intrigued with what he intends…