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That all make sense. I actually think young Barkley was just a better version of Lynch though, so I can see him losing some sizzle and still being elite. It's kind of like LeBron where when your starting point is so high, you can lose something and still be top tier.

Saquon's career to date has been almost as bad as realistically possible given his insane talent level. Almost everything went wrong in NY. Injuries and a pitiful supporting cast being the two biggest issues. I'm curious to see him on a new team. This has Lynch in Seattle vibes. Lynch was just a...

I think Andre Johnson was a more talented WR than Holt or Wayne, though all were great. As another poster said, he had the misfortune of being stuck on bad teams with bad QBs for most of his NFL career. What would his numbers have looked like playing with Manning or Warner? You can make a...

Actually somewhat relevant to the discussion in the sense that Indianapolis may have been buying the Alabama tape more so than the Cleveland tape, banking on the idea that a change of surroundings would unlock the "real" Richardson, which clearly didn't happen. In other words, they were not...

Eddie George had multiple seasons of respectable YPC on high volume. Trent Richardson...did not. I'm not going to spend a lot of energy or time arguing about it. As flops go, he was a big one.

Efficiency-wise? Absolutely. He had 3.6 YPC as a rookie. There was the one game against the Bengals where he looked like the guy he was supposed to be, and then he just sort of sputtered. He had a strong rookie season from an FF standpoint because of high volume, but there was never a period...

It's always really hard to strike the right balance in dynasty between being too reactive and too rigid. There are four extremes with young talent: THE DOA BUST - Starts Bad / Ends Bad (ala Laquon Treadwell, Trent Richardson, Royce Freeman) THE LATER BLOOMER - Starts Bad / Ends Good (ala Roddy...

Really small sample size, but at least his PT is trending up and he has caught some passes. I liked him at Wake a decent amount. He's another guy I took a long look at for my dev leagues that year. Didn't ultimately pull the trigger on him, but definitely like him above your typical 6th round...

Haven't followed him much at all tbh. No involvement in redraft and he wasn't high on my dynasty list. Seems like he has had a relatively positive rookie season. If Jeudy walks then Mims could be in line for starter duties. In a keep 8, I'm not sure there's enough upside to hold him though.

Feeling pretty good about most of these takes through most of their first season. Some nice hits on the green list: Also feel pretty good about most of my red list fades, although Michael Wilson had more impact than I expected. I think my takes on Bijan and Quentin Johnson have aged pretty...

Real men of culture drafted him in August (and dropped him a few weeks later, but we won't talk about that). His ascension reminds me of Andrews. They both flashed a lot in college and were high-ish picks, but then just came in and looked even better than the rosiest evaluations could've...

Too early to dance on his grave. He'll probably be fine long-term, but it's another example of why you have to step out of the draft hype machine. So much click-bait out there every year trying to hype up some guy as the "best prospect since...". I'm all for getting hyped on big talent, but you...

Go look at Jordy Nelson's career. It look him a long time to blossom, and that was with better QB play. I'm still intrigued by Pierce. The situation has not been ideal thus far.

If anything, I'm impressed by his coaching to have them punching above their weight when their roster is problematic. In the NFL, you're usually only as good as your QB, and Pickett is no Roethlisberger. Their big problem is that they seem to have whiffed on their QB successor. Solve that...

He was one of my dev picks before the 2022 NCAA season. Wrote this about him before the current NFL season started. I thought he was a day 2 guy based on his 2021 tape. Lots of good stuff in there. 2022 was a nightmare for him though. QB play dropped off a cliff. He got a case of the...

I'm going to reverse-jinx him by using this slow rookie season to say he was never as good as people said he was. The hype was out of control. "Best RB prospect since..." Then you watch his film and the eye-popping reps are not there. Generational? No. He does not flash the talent that LaDainian...

I think it just speaks to the enormous difficulty of the job. It's funny because if you lose a starter in the NBA, the backup will almost always be a reasonably capable player. Not to say there's no dropoff from LeBron or Steph to the next man down, but those guys will at least be able to play...

To put it simply, I think most of those guys just aren't as good as people wanted them to be. There's one elite QB in the NFL and it's Mahomes. The others can have great games and great seasons, but can't be trusted to perform. We were spoiled by 10+ years of Peyton, Brady, Rodgers, even...

Ultimately, he was the first TE drafted in his class for a reason. He's good. I'm happy to see him finally get consistent opportunities. I thought this would be his season after his mini-breakout in the final stretch of 2022, but we had to wait for Ertz to get pipped. Now it looks like the...

My pet theory is that all the concussion stuff has fewer parents letting their kids play football, and we're finally seeing the consequences at the pro level. There are some standouts, but the talent pool is shallow at many positions. QB has some of the worst play I've ever seen. Majority of the...