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Apr 28, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read Read on X
We haven't had a player drafted in the 1st round with a #RAS below 5.00 since 2019, where we had three.

Deandre Baker, L.J. Collier, and Dwayne Haskins (RIP).

The COVID years limited testing, but I think teams also played it a lot safer than they would have otherwise.
Will any player under 5.00 be drafed in 2022?

I can't think of one that should. Offhand, I can't even think of a player that MIGHT go in the 1st with a lower score.
2018 only had one player under 5.00, Baker Mayfield who was taken first.
2017 only had the one as well, Charles Harris who was taken by the Dolphins.
In 2016 we had three. Vernon Butler of the Panthers, DeForest Buckner (who tested as an edge), and Laquon Treadwell.
2015 saw four go in the first. Laken Tomlinson by the Lions, Arik Armstead, Jameis Winston, and Danny Shelton (who was a nose tackle).

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Apr 27, 2022
Happy draft week!

It's been an awesome year and I've got some exciting things cooking for 2023. If youve enjoyed #RAS,please consider donating to help expand the site and help bring some new tools for the draft community in 2023!

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We've been able to add some cool new features to the site this year, courtesy of @StatManEric, including the RAS Compare tool, which allows a side by side comparison of any two prospects compared all time against the RAS database.

RAS.football/ras-compare
We also added a calculator to every single player page, allowing for quick hypotheticals like what a player would score if they were just a little bigger, or if they had tested in an area they didn't for the year.

Like what if Jordan Davis had done the bench and average agis. Image
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Aug 31, 2021
It probably won't be quite as fun as most years given the start of a rebuild, but let's run through the #Lions initial 53 mean roster for #RAS!
By now, if you follow me, you probably know my thoughts on Goff.

Clock is ticking before they have a new QB, but given...the next two guys...he's going to start every game he's healthy for.

Unlike the Rams, he won't get benched here for poor play. Not with his price tag.
Tim Boyle is not very accurate, nor is he very good at reading a defense.

What he is, though, is big with a strong arm and pretty athletic. That'll buy you some credit, at least with scout team, when your starter has only one of those things.
Read 53 tweets
May 8, 2021
You know what we haven't looked at in a while? Some outliers.

For #RAS, this normally refers to players who found success in the NFL despite not testing off the charts.

I think it's important to keep some of that in context, that it's not a death knell when a guy isn't superman
Let's kick this off with what is still my favorite low #RAS card, Jarvis Landry!

Landry's combine performance in 2014 was one of the worst in this history of the NFL, in no small part due to pulling his hamstring.

I mean, just look at it!
Landry would test better at his pro day (shown here with his Combine bench since he didn't redo that), but like...still not good. But better!
Read 31 tweets
May 6, 2021
It's still WAY too early to rank them, but having done my preliminary work on 16 QB prospects for 2022, here are my early thoughts.
There are no top tier talents like we had in 2021.

Prior to the 2021 season, there were three QBs vying for the top spot. All three of them would go at the top of the first round, with the addition of a fast riser in Zach Wilson and a late one in Mac Jones.

None like that here.
Doesn't mean that there won't be a top flight QB in 2022, and for reasons I'll go into there almost certainly will be at least one or two.
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Dec 14, 2020
Since we're talking about bad draft picks, I think it's time for one of those old walks down memory lane, y'all. Wanna walk through the past few GMs and their draft classes?

We're gonna go back a ways.
So the Lions have always had a wonky front office set up. How they've had it under Wood/Quinn/Patricia is probably the most easily understood power structure they've had in decades, and probably the best organized (in theory, obviously, still gotta hire the right people).
Pre-Millen, they had a guy named Chuck Schmidt.

Schmidt took over the Lions in 1989 and was pretty stand offish. Kind of like how Rod Wood is today, really, he just kinda hired people and then pissed off somewhere.
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Dec 11, 2020
Most of my followers are here for the football takes, but I'm a big film, music, and game guy as well.

There are few singers or musicians I mention more often than Sam Cooke, who died on this date in 1964.

Cooke had one of the most unique sounds, both of his day and until now.
These are his top five songs on Spotify, each a timeless classic in his own distinct style, but also varied in tone, topic, and mood.

Cooke could bring it no matter what you were feeling, and you couldn't help but sing along if you were the type to when the mood struck. Image
I'm currently nearly five years older than Cooke was when he was killed, and considering the quality and volume of his work I think it's one of the greatest cultural tragedies that we were robbed of what he could have done with a full career.

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