Arif Hasan

Lower Saxony, Philadelphia

NFL Writer at Pro Football Network

Writer at Wide Left

I write about football Find me at https://t.co/i4QhpAPF9Z - [email protected] -

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Wide Left: A Change

2 days ago | wideleft.football | Arif Hasan

Long story short: there are changes coming to Wide Left, which will mean more content that is more neatly organized. I’m bringing on several new writers to contribute on a more regular schedule as well as people on the back end to help with story development, editing and so on. At the moment, we’re splitting the newsletter into three written content verticals: Lead Dive for NFL content, Two Gap for college- and draft-related content and Outside Zone for cultural and political commentary.
Norse Code Podcast Episode 558: Every Team Did A Good Job

2 weeks ago | wideleft.football | Arif Hasan |James Pogatshnik

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:50:17Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Norse Code is being hosted on the Wide Left Substack. If you are already subscribed via iTunes or some other podcast reader, don’t worry! The podcast feeds will continue to be updated there as well as on the Daily Norseman. You don’t have to change anything.
Norse Code Podcast Episode 558: Every Team Did a Good Job

2 weeks ago | dailynorseman.com | Arif Hasan

*****Download Link Here***** Episode notes: Here’s my Consensus Big Board Top 300 This is my piece on the most polarizing players in the draft My piece on the differences between evaluators and forecasters I wrote about Shedeur Sanders’ slide and the history of slides in the NFL Draft I also wrote about the history of “best available” players on Day 2 I graded all the draft classes, identifying reaches and steals And the UDFA classes, picking out the 56 most intriguing players We mentioned...
Ranking the 2025 UDFA Classes With the Consensus Big Board

2 weeks ago | wideleft.football | Arif Hasan

In the days following the draft, I find my mentions light up with people referencing my work in the context of undrafted free agents, which is really neat to see. But until last year, I hadn’t really tested the big board against undrafted free agency. UDFAs can be some of the most impactful players on the team; teams really aren’t complete without a good complement of those players and — because there are so many more of them in camp — they are often large proportions of every NFL roster.
The 2025 NFL Consensus Big Board Grades The Draft

2 weeks ago | wideleft.football | Arif Hasan

With the conclusion of the NFL draft, we have the ability to assess how teams added rookies to their roster using all of the information we have available to us. No approach is perfect, including this one, but we have the opportunity to leverage the collective wisdom of draft analysts to see which teams might have done the most to position themselves for success. If you want to skip 4,000 words of exploration on this topic, click here to jump down to the grades.
How (Un)Precedented is Shedeur Sanders' Slide?

2 weeks ago | wideleft.football | Arif Hasan

Shedeur Sanders is sliding. The most well-known quarterback prospect in this year’s draft – perhaps in the past several drafts – hasn’t heard his name called from the NFL podium in two days, having heard five quarterbacks and one other player named Sanders called before him. That’s despite having been ranked by outside analysts as the 22nd-best player in the draft.
Consensus Big Board: The History of “Best Available” on Day 2

2 weeks ago | wideleft.football | Arif Hasan

For those following the Consensus Big Board project, Day 2 is arguably as exciting as Day 1, as teams pounce on the astounding value left on the board at the top of the second round. Players who “fell” in the draft from their original big board position are seen as astounding finds – but is that really all that useful? The headlines of draft classes are built on the first round, but the strength of classes are created in the second and third rounds.
2025 NFL Draft Consensus Big Board: Forecasters vs Evaluators

3 weeks ago | wideleft.football | Arif Hasan

With data from 87 analysts, we can use our survey of draft media to do more than just figure out what the average belief of the draft community is on a player – it can tell us which players are more polarizing and what category of analyst we’re looking at. The polarity of players – already explored in a previous piece – is easy to understand. Players who generate more variance in their rankings are more divisive within the community. That second category, however, isn’t quite as intuitive.
2025 NFL Consensus Board: Who Are the Most Polarizing Players in the Draft?

3 weeks ago | wideleft.football | Arif Hasan

One of the values of the Consensus Big Board project isn’t just the fact that it gives us an understanding of where the industry at large stands on all the players in the draft, but also to figure out where the disagreements are – and how big those disagreements can be. Often, players who provoke the most discussion can seem like the most polarizing prospect in the draft, but are not.
2025 Consensus Big Board: The Top 300 Players in the 2025 NFL Draft, According to 76 Analysts

3 weeks ago | wideleft.football | Arif Hasan

Welcome to the landing page for the Consensus Big Board for the 2025 NFL Draft. As often as possible, I’ve tried to provide it free, without subscription, to as many people as possible. To that end, this piece is free to everyone, as is the data. The insights generated from the board, which include analysis like who the most polarizing players are in the draft, the difference between evaluators and forecasters and post-draft team grades will continue to be subscriber-exclusives.