Newsletter: Monday NFL Combine Mock Draft, Thoughts on Quarterback Combine Performances, and Two Running Backs

We have to understand the context, folks.

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The NFL Combine has come and gone and those valuable RAS scores are closer to completion than ever before. Rejoice. We will soon have the full run down of Pro Day events where these prospects will complete the picture. Most either didn’t participate at all or missed an event or two of their choosing.

Despite the incomplete data we did get enough information on 90% of the draft class to formulate a more complete picture in these mock drafts, so here is a lightning version where Cam Ward went to the Titans and we entertained a trade back to #6 with the Raiders.

This draft class can really get into the volume game quick with this bevy of selections and adding more from the move back at the top of the 1st round. But, come on, this talent infusion, especially upfront, is what the Browns badly need outside of finding that long-term quarterback answer. Perhaps one of the two swings taken in this mock also provide the answer. Could we be so lucky?

We’re back with a new year of overreactions to throwing at the combine. It does so little to help a quarterback’s draft stock but it can tear them down in mere moments if they miss throws. Because these throws are made on air and it is perceived that every throw should be completed. Will Howard was this year’s subject of focus.

But the name changes each year and the circus remains. People fail to understand the receivers are running routes that can work against the way they were taught in college and require some fine-tuning. The footballs are brand new and usually slick. These are players of varying speed who quarterbacks don’t always know how to gauge their tracking ability or how far to lead them. Some guessing around how they come out of their breaks, and more.

Last year it was Bo Nix who was the poor throw social media darling.