Arif Hasan

1 month ago | wideleft.football | Arif Hasan |James Pogatshnik

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1 month 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...

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.