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Luther Burden III RSP Pre-NFL Draft Scouting Report
Matt Waldman shares his pre-NFL Draft scouting report of Chicago Bears WR Luther Burden III. The Bears’ rookie earned the third-highest pre-draft grade among receivers during the past two seasons. WR Luther Burden III RSP Scouting Profile RSP Ranking: WR1 Height/Weight: 6’0”/206 School: Missouri Player Comparison Spectrum: X/Brandon Aiyuk – Rashee Rice – Dontayvion…
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WR Michael Wilson (Arizona Cardinals) Pre-NFL Draft RSP Scouting Report
Matt Waldman shares his pre-NFL Draft scouting report of RSP Favorite, WR Michael Wilson. My friend J.J. Zachariason likes to use the phrase, “never wrong, just early,” when it comes to trash-talking about his analysis. Although, “never wrong, just early,” is false — we’re all wrong, every year — it’s really about what you get…
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Kayshon Boutte RSP Pre-Draft Scouting Report Sample
Matt Waldman revisits Patriot WR Kayshon Boutte’s pre-NFL Draft scouting report from the 2023 Rookie Scouting Portfolio WR Kayshon Boutte RSP Scouting Profile RSP Ranking: WR5 Height/Weight: 5-11/195 School: LSU Player Comparison Spectrum: Robert Woods-X-Jarvis Landry – – Pharoh Cooper Depth of Talent Score: 85.9 = Starter: Starting immediately with large role and…
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2025 NFL Draft WR Class A-Z: Matt Waldman’s RSP Solo Cast
Matt Waldman discusses the wide receiver prospects from the 2025 NFL Draft in this RSP Solo Cast. Topics State of the wide receiver in the NFL. Is 2025’s WR class a bad group of prospects? Quick hits on 69 wide receiver prospects from the 2025 NFL Draft class. Now entering its 20th season, learn more about…
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QB Leadership Stereotypes, NFL Trades, and the Colts’ Benching Ryan and Firing Brady: Matt Waldman’s RSP Scout Talk with Russ Lande
Montreal Alouettes’ head of scouting Russ Lande and the RSP’s Matt Waldman go position-by-position and discuss productive NFL players who fit or don’t fit our desired archetypes at each position. This week: What makes a good leader at the quarterback position? Where are the critiques of Russell Wilson fair/unfair? Why are onsite visits to scout…
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RSP Film Room No.69: S.Miss WR Michael Thomas, Sleeper Alert
Allen Hurns and Stefon Diggs were draft-day values the past two years. This Golden Eagle has the skills to be the next pleasant surprise in the NFL. Football Gameplan’s Turron Davenport joined me last week to share compelling thoughts on projecting De’Runnya Wilson’s skills to the NFL. This week, I had Davenport return so I could share…
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WR Tony Jones: Economy of Movement
Recently, I profiled what can happen when a receiver leaves the ground too willingly. Let’s look at Northwestern’s Tony Jones, a receiver who understands economy of movement with a high target. “Eyes to the Sky, Feet on the Ground” has its own specific display on a 20-yard reception, a target not even intended for Jones on…
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Hands to the Sky, Feet on the Ground: A Lesson for WRs
Positional technique and film study became an interest of mine in the late 1990s and I can recall a magazine feature in ESPN where Sterling Sharpe critiqued an incoming class of wideouts. One of those players was Packers’ draft pick Derrick Mayes, a top prospect from Notre Dame. Sharpe criticized Mayes’ tendency to leave his…
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On Scouting Wide Receivers
I believe analytics have value, but the grading of wide receivers based heavily on speed, vertical skill, and production is an ambitious, but misguided idea. Further the application is the torturing of data to fit it into a preconceived idea and making it sound objective and scientific due to the use of quantitative data. Unless…