Positional strengths and weaknesses

It’s interesting to see that college footballs trends over the past three to five years are starting to influence the trends on NFL prospects more so than what I have seen five to ten years ago. The uptake of the spread and spread option offenses have forced defenses to find athletic players and putting them in as DBs to help stop the multiple WR sets. So where as those athletic players may have been RBs or WRs in the past, they are now leading to deeper draft classes for the secondary. It also means that DL can tend to suffer, especially the DE position. It is hard to find a real 4-3 DE prospect anymore, although this year there are at least two elite level players at that position (Mario Williams is the last real super-star 4-3 DE that comes to mind). The issue I have with this though is that it makes it very hard to read certain positional players in regards to how they will translate to the pro game.

Each subsequent post will breakdown what I think of each positional group, with DL and OL broken down interior (OG/OC and DT) and exterior players (OT and DE/rush OLB)