Recent content by electric Ape

I wrote a post during the early week Skattebo backfield takeover reminding folks that it’s a long crazy season with many ups and downs and not to completely give up on Tracy. Skattebo’s best tape is better than Tracy’s best tape and Skat has played more consistently with his worse tape looking...

Harbaugh provided the following update today: "Omarion to me looks like he's getting better every day. We know he won't be there this week though per league rules." Could be a nothing statement or the usual coach-speak or even misdirection but I find the comments at least mildly encouraging. Is...

This morning I did a little more digging into Hampton's injury. There are some new videos out there that center around the play rockaction highlighted but now with more detailed analysis. To summarize I think the best info available is that the injury is a high ankle sprain and the key unknown...

Agreed. This is one of the murkier injury situations out there. Low ankle sprain? Mild high ankle sprain? Severe high ankle sprain? Foot injury? Has anyone seen a credible report on the nature of the injury? All I've seen is conflicting reports (only 4 games missed then definitely more than 4...

I think your statement that this is not the same situation as what's happening in Carolina or a similar talent gap is the key. Vidal was an offseason darling his rookie year but he has a 10 game sample in 2024 where he looked unimpressive. One game vs the lowly Miami D should not cause us to...

What a strange roller-coaster week 3 for Tyrone Tracy. After genuine fears he’d been fully mothballed and demoted week 2 he is no longer on the kickoff return team, he starts the game, he gets the first 5 touches, and he looks good! This was the dream scenario for rapidly rehabbing Tracy’s...

In managed league fantasy football rookies are an odd commodity. From a pure numbers standpoint a rookie’s output projections tend to peak late in the season when the games matter more so there is a technical case that the rookie production arc is undervalued. From an emotional standpoint it’s...

Most of the optimism around QJ’s week 2 performance will center around his 31 yard run and for good reason, it was a great run! I think a lessor part of QJ’s stat line, 3 receptions for 10 yards, is also deserving of our attention. I don’t want to overstate the output—it was only 10 yards and...

First off I hope a more productive football and analytics discussion can happen here. In another thread the discussion sometimes departed away from those topics and I don’t think that’s good for anyone. Also let me state as clearly and directly as I can that I am not criticizing you in any way...

Relative Yards Per Carry on the 2025 Cleveland Browns: Quinshon Judkins – positive 2.2 Jerome Ford – negative 0.6 Dylan Sampson – negative 1.7 I’m being wildly unfair in applying a longer-term metric to a 2 game sample but it is kinda funny to see the red flag, do-not-draft RYPC ugly...

Fully agreed, it was a very bad day for Tracy owners. That said, I wouldn’t revise your previous talent assessments on Tracy too much or completely give up on the idea he can play his way into a better role this season. Certainly Tracy’s arrow is strongly down and Skat’s is strongly up but for...

There was a lot of reading of the tea leaves on Tracy vs Skat all offseason. The take above is looking quite accurate to me all the way around. It’s too early to say whether Tracy or Skat ends up being the more effective NFL player but it sure looks like the Giants drafted Skat with a plan and...

Thanks for the detailed breakdown! When you wrote your initial assessment I thought we’d see the film a lot more differently but I really don’t question much of anything you observe. Like you said, Judkins has a nasty stiff arm. But some of his strengths also cover for weaknesses, as in he runs...

Gotcha. No need to apologize, your posts are consistently interesting. And agreed on Waldman. If I can't evaluate a college player directly I seek out Waldman's opinion

Joe Mixon is an odd comp to me. I guess NFL.com means more later career Joe Mixon? Early career Joe Mixon was patient almost to a fault sometimes whereas Judkins is noticeably more direct and more explosive. If someone had the patience to go back 8 years you’d see many posts for me defending...