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[Dynasty] 2020 NFL Draft Class (1 Viewer)

FMIA, NFL Scouting Combine: Thirty Bits of Buzz From the Scene in Indy

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12. Step into room 627 at the Indianapolis Marriott with me. Gil Brandt’s room. The Hall of Fame personnel/combine/NFL media/know-it-all turns 87 on Wednesday. He uses a cane now and walks a little slower, but at his 41st Combine, I continued the tradition of Gimme your three guys, Gil. “Who are your guys this year, Gil?” I asked when we sat down in his room. “Who do you love?” There were notes on the bed, on the desk, on the night table, and he gathered up a few things and gave me his three guys:

• Derrick Brown, defensive tackle, Auburn. “Love him. Great player. Mom works at Kmart, dad’s a jailer. Got asked why he stayed in school this past year. ‘My mom asked me to get my degree.’ Got asked why he played in the Auburn bowl game when so many top prospects sit ‘em out. ‘I was elected captain. I wasn’t gonna desert my guys.’ He’s got the physical ability and character to go a long way.” Projected to be a top 10 pick.

• Isaiah Coulter, wide receiver, Rhode Island. “He’s a guy we’re gonna be asking about a year from now, ‘Where’d he come from? Why’d we miss on him?’ He’s 6-1 7/8, big receiver. Plays big. Can run under 4.4. [Official combine time: 4.45.] I like these guys who come from a school like Rhode Island with something to prove. Don’t want to put too much pressure on him, but he could be [D.K.] Metcalf of this draft.” In an all-time draft for receivers, Coulter is projected to be a mid-round pick.

• Jonathan Taylor, running back, Wisconsin. Ran the fastest 40 of any back in Indy, 4.39 seconds. NFL teams seem almost inclined to not like him because he carried the ball an exhausting 926 times in three bruising college seasons in the Big Ten. But he grew on people here. Brandt: “Teams say he might have carried it too much in college. I don’t know about that. I see a guy who can be a dominant player. Frank Gore’s carried it a lot too. He’s still playing. Taylor’s a great player. Runs hard.” Projected to be picked in the top two rounds.

13. One other Gil-ism. He likes Tua Tagovailoa and Joe Burrow, and though worried about Tagovailoa’s health, he sounded like he likes Tua’s upside more. Called Burrow “Steady Eddie.” Compared him to Danny White—which he thinks is a great compliment. Not sure Bengals fans would. And this on Justin Herbert: “Huge upside. He’s got an Al Davis arm. Al would love him.”
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25. Love for Jordan Love. I stopped in my tracks walking by a TV on Thursday night, hearing NFL Network’s Marc Ross saying of Utah State quarterback Jordan Love, “His potential far exceeds Tua.” So I found Ross, 11 years a top personnel executive with the Giants, and asked for an explanation.

“If you actually watch Jordan on tape, watch the traits he has, the playmaking ability, the innate feel for the game, the feel for the pocket, the poise, that will transfer well to the NFL,” Ross said. “When you would watch him every game, there were those ‘oh my gosh’ plays that you just have to keep rewinding . . . I have been banging his drum for a while saying that he was my second favorite guy. When you watch Utah State and Jordan Love’s cast, he was under siege every play, just about. With Tua, or Joe Burrow, they have layup plays where the scheme, the protection’s there, there’s a wide receiver open every time.

“Jordan Love didn’t have any layups in his offense. He’s got these receivers who will be nowhere close to NFL receivers who are tightly covered. He has to overcome all that on every play. Whereas, the Tuas and Joe Burrows, they just really have to make five or six tough plays a game, three-pointers. Jordan Love, every play for him is a three-pointer, or beating his man off the dribble to try to score.”

26. Why Ross is rare. I told one GM about Ross’ comments. This is a GM who is seeking quarterback help this spring. This GM doesn’t agree with Ross about Love; the GM is lukewarm about Love off the field and thinks he’s careless on the field. (Love was cited for marijuana possession the week before Utah State’s bowl games this year, which some teams care about and some don’t. The charge was later dropped.) But Ross, former personnel VP for the Giants, was unswayed. “I love that,” one respected GM said. “I don’t agree, but it’s hard to have that opinion with a guy like Tua. The wave starts—people have loved him for a couple of years—and then it becomes a tsunami. It’s like you can’t go against him. Scouts I like are ones who have opinions like that and don’t back down.”
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NFL Media's Lance Zierlein compared Appalachian State RB Darrynton Evans to Tampa Bay Buccaneers RB Ronald Jones.

Small, agile, capable of finding a fifth-gear in the open field: Evans (5'10/203) is everything that comes to mind when we think of what a speed back is. Zierlein also praises Evans' patience in the open-field to set up linebackers and safeties to fail, furthering his potential as a home run threat. However, Evans needs to get to the open field in the first place, and Zierlein's questions about Evans' toughness and vision between the tackles hinders his ability to get there. Evans may need some time in the league before he finds his groove.

SOURCE: NFL.com

Mar 2, 2020, 5:55 PM ET
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When asked the odds of Washington trading back from the No. 2 overall pick in April's draft, ESPN's Todd McShay said "a 10-15% chance."

NBC Sports Washington's J.P. Finlay also referred to the rumors Tua Tagovailoa lands with the Redskins as "more smoke than fire." Last year's No. 15 overall pick Dwayne Haskins was infamously a Dan Snyder "guy" for his local ties to Potomac, Maryland, and Ohio State DE Chase Young coincidently fits that bill having played his high school football only 25 minutes outside the D.C. metropolitan area. As it stands, Young seems like the obvious choice for the organization to start anew.

SOURCE: Justin Rogers on Twitter

Mar 3, 2020, 11:28 AM ET
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NFL.com's Lance Zierlein compared Georgia QB Jake Fromm to Redskins QB Colt McCoy.

Fromm (6'2/219) didn't wow anybody with his physical traits at last week's NFL Scouting Combine, posting the lowest 40-yard dash time in the quarterback group. However he has performed well in big games when called upon and has a pro quarterback makeup. He is adept at reading the field and making correct pre-snap reads but has limited arm strength and does not improvise well. Even though he has flaws to his game, Fromm is still slated to be in the Day 2 mix.

SOURCE: NFL.com

Mar 3, 2020, 2:32 PM ET
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NFL Media's Lance Zierlein compared Memphis WR/RB Antonio Gibson to New York Giants RB Buck Allen.

Zierlein writes that the 6-foot, 228-pound Gibson possesses "an intriguing combination of size, burst, vision and power," though he also cautions patience for interested NFL parties, noting that the Memphis product will require a "developmental runway" in the pros before his upside might be realized. In combine testing, Gibson's SPARQ percentile in testing was 83.3. He notched a sharp 4.39-second 40-yard dash as part of that testing.

SOURCE: NFL.com

Mar 4, 2020, 10:47 AM ET
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