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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Using Guaranteed Money to Rank 2025's Top UDFAs

1 month ago | wideleft.football | Arif Hasan

Last year, I explored whether or not there was any value in using guaranteed money for undrafted free agents to predict the likelihood that those free agents made the 53-man roster. If you want this year’s list, click here to jump to the bottom of the piece. The theory behind using this data is that it should tell us much more about the revealed preferences of the NFL – even more than the draft does.
Norse Code Podcast Episode 559: Demolish The World (With Guest Victoria Zeller)

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

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:36:14Audio 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 559: Demolish The World (With Guest Victoria Zeller)

1 month ago | dailynorseman.com | Arif Hasan

*****Download Link Here******Episode Notes:Buy One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller!The safety committee recommended banning the Tush Push. Didn’t work. A guide on flag football!The story of Caleb Williams wanting to go to the VikingsMy piece from last year espousing the dynamic kickoffFollow us on Twitter / BlueskyArif - @ArifHasanNFL / @arif.bsky.socialJames - @bigmono / @norsecodpocast.bsky.socialVictoria - @dirtbagqueer /@dirtbagqueer.rocksTo listen to more, this is the link to that iTunes feed.
Norse Code Podcast Episode 559: Demolish The World (With Guest Victoria Zeller)

1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | Arif Hasan

*****Download Link Here******Episode Notes:Buy One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller!The safety committee recommended banning the Tush Push. Didn’t work.
Wide Left: A Change

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

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Norse Code Podcast Episode 558: Every Team Did a Good Job

2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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.