so bad
i actually really like their current unis.
- Crimsoninja

so do i.

no idea why they'd change that.

- Nucker101

this is a preemptive "my boy, sproles".

i'm claiming him. just like the good old days when you could just pick your own.

(frank) off, crims. you have boykin.

this is a preemptive "my boy, sproles".

i'm claiming him. just like the good old days when you could just pick your own.

(frank) off, crims. you have boykin.
- kicksave856

it might be my boy d-sproles but ill have to see


also he will be a massive disappointment

it might be my boy d-sproles but ill have to see


also he will be a massive disappointment
- Crimsoninja

if he's a disappointment i'll let you have him and you may call him any abbreviated ghetto name you want.

however, you seem to know very little about football. with my boy chip at the helm i have faith sproles will not be a disappointment.

this is a preemptive "my boy, sproles".

i'm claiming him. just like the good old days when you could just pick your own.

(frank) off, crims. you have boykin.
- kicksave856

Foles has been my boy since they drafted him. He was my sleeper pick going into that draft.

Foles has been my boy since they drafted him. He was my sleeper pick going into that draft.
- Nucker101

I BELIEVE YOU

I BELIEVE YOU
- kicksave856

Aliens walk among us.

Aliens walk among us.
- Nucker101

Foles has been my boy since they drafted him. He was my sleeper pick going into that draft.
- Nucker101

foles is also my boy but not my main boy

he can be your main, thats fine with me

foles is also my boy but not my main boy

he can be your main, thats fine with me
- Crimsoninja

i love that we can't divie up our eagles properly.

foles is also my boy but not my main boy

he can be your main, thats fine with me
- Crimsoninja

He's yours every other weekend.

He's yours every other weekend.
- Nucker101

this is nice.

NFL Draft 2014: Statistical Analysis of OLB Ryan Shazier, Ohio State


I have to be honest. I am totally smitten with Ryan Shazier. Outside of Pitt DT Aaron Donald, this is the best football prospect that I've seen so far in the 2014 process. When I say 'best', I mean best for the NFL...a difference-maker. The type of player who stands out on paper and on film more than others. My worn-out phrase for these type of prospects is, "The Calvin Johnson of ____ (fill-in the position)." By that, I mean a player who is so radically, freakishly different than anything our computer has seen at their particular position...it almost fries the circuitry. It's a prospect that might not just be 'good', or even All-Pro level, but something that could be 'special' in the NFL. That's the kind of prospect that I want to burn a draft pick on.

Of all the high-end OLB/DEs I've watched play this season: Clowney, Mack, Barr, Ford, Ealy, Jeffcoat, et al, Shazier was the best football player I saw...and his measurables humiliate every name mentioned as well.

Comparing Ryan Shazier to Jadeveon Clowney is apples and oranges. Clowney is a purely a 4-3 DE, and a guy you want to rush the passer/backfield. Shazier is not a 4-3 DE, like many versatile guys who are classified as an OLB. Shazier is a pure OLB, whether 4-3 or 3-4...he can do both. You'd probably like him more in a 3-4, but he works either way. The reason I say, "either way" is because Shazier has the perfect OLB/Safety physique. Incredible speed (and we'll detail that in the next section) and athleticism, plus can drop into coverage, and can sneak-rush the backfield, but will also lay a hit on you. At Ohio State, much of the time, he was playing inside linebacker (but he moved around a lot too). He was an under-sized ILB for Ohio State, but a successful nonetheless...he was a complete disrupter.

I thought that Jamie Collins was the "Calvin Johnson of OLBs," but Ryan Shazier is better..."more Calvin," than Collins...and that's no slap at Collins. College football is churning out crazy, bionic super-athletes now...what we used to think was great a few years ago is now "normal." There are new, radical, physical 'freaks' entering the NFL every year now...and Shazier is one of them for 2014.

I watch Shazier on tape, and it is mostly beautiful. He played a lot of middle linebacker for Ohio State, and he looked so out of place visually (size-wise), but then, when the ball was snapped, he looked like he was shot out of a cannon, he was all over the place (in a good way). He makes big hits like a Free Safety, and covers like a CB, but tackles/plays the game so well that he was Ohio State's middle linebacker in a 3-4 scheme...many times the middle linebacker in a 4-3 set-up. He is multi-dimensional with almost no flaw. They do not make many humans like Ryan Shazier...the NFL world may be getting ready to in the future, but for now this is as about as good as it gets at OLB for the NFL.

The one flaw people will find about him, and we think it's lazy scouting, is that he doesn't shed blockers well enough. If you watch the tape, it is true...because most of the times his 237-pound self was perched at middle linebacker, as he bum-rushed up the middle versus Big-10 offensive linemen. If a 300+ interior linemen picks up Shazier coming in, then the O-L will win that battle of horn-locking. Shazier would often win using speed and agility to sail through a crease in the line, or just beat the linemen to a spot with his speed. Shazier won't be a middle linebacker in the NFL...so scouts/analysts commenting about him getting bottled up versus someone like a Wisconsin is silly. You have to envision him at OLB or Strong Safety doing what he does...and he may be a 'god' in the NFL at either of those positions.

At his Pro-Day, Shazier ran an unofficial 4.36 40-time...and that is simply amazing. Pro-Day times, can be a little off, so let's call it 4.46 40-time. OK, a 4.46 40-time is simply amazing. Shazier has the body and athleticism of an elite RB prospect. On paper, he is the best RB prospect in this draft...that's how amazingly athletic Shazier is. His size-speed-athleticism combo is surreal. I said next "Calvin Johnson" of Jamie Collins last year in part because he had a 41.5' vertical, which is off-the-charts for an OLB (or anybody). At the 2014 NFL Combine, Shazier leapt 42".

Shazier seems to be flawless off-the-field, and of character. There are no known issues with him outside of the football field, or on it.



Ryan Shazier, through the lens of our OLB Scouting Algorithm

I love this following pickup from the computer...Shazier has a sensational 2013 regardless of how we chop it up, but the computer thinks it's even better than people realize. In 2013, Shazier led the Big-10 in tackles with 144 (3rd best in all the NCAA for 2013, and 11th all-time in the Big-10 for his career). He was awesome. However, in 2013, Ohio State had three cupcake games where they pulled back the Shazier chain (Buffalo, San Diego State, and Florida A&M). Look at the splits of Shazier versus his three cupcakes, and then his other 11 meaningful games:

5.3 total tackles, 4.0 solo tackles, 1.2 TFLs, 0.0 sacks per game = Shazier vs. 2013 cupcakes

11.6 total tackles, 8.2 solo tackles, 1.8 TFLs, 0.6 sacks per game = Shazier vs. 2013 "rest of the schedule"

Those numbers are sick from a player his size, playing middle and outside linebacker.

Shazier was just not a tackler. He got into the backfield, big-time. He had 23.5 TFLs, the most in the Big-10 (the next closest Big-10 player was 7 TFLs behind him), and he also had the 2nd-most TFLs in the NCAA in 2013. He led the Big-10 in TFLs the prior year as well (17).

In 2012, Shazier was in the Big-10 top-10 for "passes defended" (12). That's a category normally reserved for top CBs, but Shazier jumped up in there...while he also led the Big-10 in TFLs and was 3rd in total tackles. Shazier is 'off the charts' as a performer.

Not only did he crush it on the field, but athletically he is unreal. We've already touched on some of his exploits for 40-times and vertical. Where does he rank among all our OLB prospects in our database in some of those key categories?

He has greatest vertical leap recorded of any OLB prospect in our system along with Dontay Moch at 42"

He has the best 40-time we've recorded, if you trust the Pro-Day, if not, then he is right there with Von Miller's 4.42 range, along with Dontay Moch's, who ran a 4.40

He is one of only 15 OLB prospects in our system analysis to hit below 6.93 on the three-cone drill

He is an "A+" athlete, and an "A+" performer...and you can guess what kind of GPA that will get you in our system...





The NFL LB Ryan Shazier most compares to statistically in college, within our system:

Only Terrell Suggs rates higher than Ryan Shazier at OLB historically for us. Shazier's game isn't quite like Suggs, who is more of a rush-DE/OLB. Von Miller is the same. Shazier is part of a new breed of OLB, the super-athlete like Jamie Collins. Guys who can tackle, rush the passer with great speed-agility, but can also drop into coverage like a CB. For that type of "Swiss Army" OLB, there is no one better we've ever seen than Ryan Shazier.


Our comparables:
Ryan Shazier = 14.21
Jamie Collins = 10.82
Sean Weatherspoon = 10.54
Von Miller = 13.86

Ryan Shazier Overall Metrics Scouting Score = 14.21 ("A+" grade level prospect)

*A score of 8.00+ is where we see a stronger correlation of LBs going on to become NFL good/great/elite. A score of 10.00+ is more rarefied air in our system, and indicates a greater probability of becoming an NFL elite LB.



2014 NFL Draft outlook...

The amazing Pro Day workout, which followed the stellar parts of the NFL Combine Shazier could do, has thrust him into many Mock Draft's 1st-round projection...late 1st-round. He is going 1st-round. I have no doubt about it. I suspect that he will go top-20. There is some minor buzz about his hamstring tweaks in the pre-draft workouts, but I don't think you let them stand in the way here. He has played 38 games for Ohio State the past three seasons.

There is no way, with such an emphasis on the secondary in the NFL, especially to cover TEs, that a guy with Shazier's profile will not go top-20. He should be a top-10. However, the NFL collective brain trust has locked themselves in on Barr-Mack-Ford, and won't let go of it. Shazier will be some smart team's genius move on draft day.

If I were an NFL GM, I'd have a dilemma. So far, I see two clear-cut, future elite football players in this draft: Aaron Donald and Ryan Shazier. My days of getting Donald as a 'sleeper' ended at the NFL Combine. It would take a top-10 pick to be really sure I got him. Shazier is tracking #25-40; he's still a bargain at this stage.

I'd try to pull a two-fer if I could, but if I could only get one of them, I'm not sure what I would do. I suppose I'd go by need first, but all things being equal, I might lean toward Shazier as the best prospect overall based on pick-level/salary, plus the multi-dimensional ways that I can use Shazier. Donald is a DT, end of story. Shazier is an OLB, who can project as an All-Pro Strong Safety, and who could also play some middle linebacker in a pinch, but I also might try to make him my Richard Sherman, and set the NFL-world on its ear with my Robo-CB...a CB sent from the future to the modern day. Hell, you can look at him at RB or WR as well. With all those options; it might be that Ryan Shazier is the single best prospect in this draft.

NFL outlook: We think Shazier is going to be amazing; a perpetual Pro-Bowler who will hit the ground running in the NFL. I suspect it will be as an OLB, and maybe as a Safety. Either way, buckle up, he's going to be awesome.


http://collegefootballmet...2014/LB_Shazier_Ryan.html

NFL Draft 2014: Statistical Analysis of OLB Ryan Shazier, Ohio State


I have to be honest. I am totally smitten with Ryan Shazier. Outside of Pitt DT Aaron Donald, this is the best football prospect that I've seen so far in the 2014 process. When I say 'best', I mean best for the NFL...a difference-maker. The type of player who stands out on paper and on film more than others. My worn-out phrase for these type of prospects is, "The Calvin Johnson of ____ (fill-in the position)." By that, I mean a player who is so radically, freakishly different than anything our computer has seen at their particular position...it almost fries the circuitry. It's a prospect that might not just be 'good', or even All-Pro level, but something that could be 'special' in the NFL. That's the kind of prospect that I want to burn a draft pick on.

Of all the high-end OLB/DEs I've watched play this season: Clowney, Mack, Barr, Ford, Ealy, Jeffcoat, et al, Shazier was the best football player I saw...and his measurables humiliate every name mentioned as well.

Comparing Ryan Shazier to Jadeveon Clowney is apples and oranges. Clowney is a purely a 4-3 DE, and a guy you want to rush the passer/backfield. Shazier is not a 4-3 DE, like many versatile guys who are classified as an OLB. Shazier is a pure OLB, whether 4-3 or 3-4...he can do both. You'd probably like him more in a 3-4, but he works either way. The reason I say, "either way" is because Shazier has the perfect OLB/Safety physique. Incredible speed (and we'll detail that in the next section) and athleticism, plus can drop into coverage, and can sneak-rush the backfield, but will also lay a hit on you. At Ohio State, much of the time, he was playing inside linebacker (but he moved around a lot too). He was an under-sized ILB for Ohio State, but a successful nonetheless...he was a complete disrupter.

I thought that Jamie Collins was the "Calvin Johnson of OLBs," but Ryan Shazier is better..."more Calvin," than Collins...and that's no slap at Collins. College football is churning out crazy, bionic super-athletes now...what we used to think was great a few years ago is now "normal." There are new, radical, physical 'freaks' entering the NFL every year now...and Shazier is one of them for 2014.

I watch Shazier on tape, and it is mostly beautiful. He played a lot of middle linebacker for Ohio State, and he looked so out of place visually (size-wise), but then, when the ball was snapped, he looked like he was shot out of a cannon, he was all over the place (in a good way). He makes big hits like a Free Safety, and covers like a CB, but tackles/plays the game so well that he was Ohio State's middle linebacker in a 3-4 scheme...many times the middle linebacker in a 4-3 set-up. He is multi-dimensional with almost no flaw. They do not make many humans like Ryan Shazier...the NFL world may be getting ready to in the future, but for now this is as about as good as it gets at OLB for the NFL.

The one flaw people will find about him, and we think it's lazy scouting, is that he doesn't shed blockers well enough. If you watch the tape, it is true...because most of the times his 237-pound self was perched at middle linebacker, as he bum-rushed up the middle versus Big-10 offensive linemen. If a 300+ interior linemen picks up Shazier coming in, then the O-L will win that battle of horn-locking. Shazier would often win using speed and agility to sail through a crease in the line, or just beat the linemen to a spot with his speed. Shazier won't be a middle linebacker in the NFL...so scouts/analysts commenting about him getting bottled up versus someone like a Wisconsin is silly. You have to envision him at OLB or Strong Safety doing what he does...and he may be a 'god' in the NFL at either of those positions.

At his Pro-Day, Shazier ran an unofficial 4.36 40-time...and that is simply amazing. Pro-Day times, can be a little off, so let's call it 4.46 40-time. OK, a 4.46 40-time is simply amazing. Shazier has the body and athleticism of an elite RB prospect. On paper, he is the best RB prospect in this draft...that's how amazingly athletic Shazier is. His size-speed-athleticism combo is surreal. I said next "Calvin Johnson" of Jamie Collins last year in part because he had a 41.5' vertical, which is off-the-charts for an OLB (or anybody). At the 2014 NFL Combine, Shazier leapt 42".

Shazier seems to be flawless off-the-field, and of character. There are no known issues with him outside of the football field, or on it.



Ryan Shazier, through the lens of our OLB Scouting Algorithm

I love this following pickup from the computer...Shazier has a sensational 2013 regardless of how we chop it up, but the computer thinks it's even better than people realize. In 2013, Shazier led the Big-10 in tackles with 144 (3rd best in all the NCAA for 2013, and 11th all-time in the Big-10 for his career). He was awesome. However, in 2013, Ohio State had three cupcake games where they pulled back the Shazier chain (Buffalo, San Diego State, and Florida A&M). Look at the splits of Shazier versus his three cupcakes, and then his other 11 meaningful games:

5.3 total tackles, 4.0 solo tackles, 1.2 TFLs, 0.0 sacks per game = Shazier vs. 2013 cupcakes

11.6 total tackles, 8.2 solo tackles, 1.8 TFLs, 0.6 sacks per game = Shazier vs. 2013 "rest of the schedule"

Those numbers are sick from a player his size, playing middle and outside linebacker.

Shazier was just not a tackler. He got into the backfield, big-time. He had 23.5 TFLs, the most in the Big-10 (the next closest Big-10 player was 7 TFLs behind him), and he also had the 2nd-most TFLs in the NCAA in 2013. He led the Big-10 in TFLs the prior year as well (17).

In 2012, Shazier was in the Big-10 top-10 for "passes defended" (12). That's a category normally reserved for top CBs, but Shazier jumped up in there...while he also led the Big-10 in TFLs and was 3rd in total tackles. Shazier is 'off the charts' as a performer.

Not only did he crush it on the field, but athletically he is unreal. We've already touched on some of his exploits for 40-times and vertical. Where does he rank among all our OLB prospects in our database in some of those key categories?

He has greatest vertical leap recorded of any OLB prospect in our system along with Dontay Moch at 42"

He has the best 40-time we've recorded, if you trust the Pro-Day, if not, then he is right there with Von Miller's 4.42 range, along with Dontay Moch's, who ran a 4.40

He is one of only 15 OLB prospects in our system analysis to hit below 6.93 on the three-cone drill

He is an "A+" athlete, and an "A+" performer...and you can guess what kind of GPA that will get you in our system...





The NFL LB Ryan Shazier most compares to statistically in college, within our system:

Only Terrell Suggs rates higher than Ryan Shazier at OLB historically for us. Shazier's game isn't quite like Suggs, who is more of a rush-DE/OLB. Von Miller is the same. Shazier is part of a new breed of OLB, the super-athlete like Jamie Collins. Guys who can tackle, rush the passer with great speed-agility, but can also drop into coverage like a CB. For that type of "Swiss Army" OLB, there is no one better we've ever seen than Ryan Shazier.


Our comparables:
Ryan Shazier = 14.21
Jamie Collins = 10.82
Sean Weatherspoon = 10.54
Von Miller = 13.86

Ryan Shazier Overall Metrics Scouting Score = 14.21 ("A+" grade level prospect)

*A score of 8.00+ is where we see a stronger correlation of LBs going on to become NFL good/great/elite. A score of 10.00+ is more rarefied air in our system, and indicates a greater probability of becoming an NFL elite LB.



2014 NFL Draft outlook...

The amazing Pro Day workout, which followed the stellar parts of the NFL Combine Shazier could do, has thrust him into many Mock Draft's 1st-round projection...late 1st-round. He is going 1st-round. I have no doubt about it. I suspect that he will go top-20. There is some minor buzz about his hamstring tweaks in the pre-draft workouts, but I don't think you let them stand in the way here. He has played 38 games for Ohio State the past three seasons.

There is no way, with such an emphasis on the secondary in the NFL, especially to cover TEs, that a guy with Shazier's profile will not go top-20. He should be a top-10. However, the NFL collective brain trust has locked themselves in on Barr-Mack-Ford, and won't let go of it. Shazier will be some smart team's genius move on draft day.

If I were an NFL GM, I'd have a dilemma. So far, I see two clear-cut, future elite football players in this draft: Aaron Donald and Ryan Shazier. My days of getting Donald as a 'sleeper' ended at the NFL Combine. It would take a top-10 pick to be really sure I got him. Shazier is tracking #25-40; he's still a bargain at this stage.

I'd try to pull a two-fer if I could, but if I could only get one of them, I'm not sure what I would do. I suppose I'd go by need first, but all things being equal, I might lean toward Shazier as the best prospect overall based on pick-level/salary, plus the multi-dimensional ways that I can use Shazier. Donald is a DT, end of story. Shazier is an OLB, who can project as an All-Pro Strong Safety, and who could also play some middle linebacker in a pinch, but I also might try to make him my Richard Sherman, and set the NFL-world on its ear with my Robo-CB...a CB sent from the future to the modern day. Hell, you can look at him at RB or WR as well. With all those options; it might be that Ryan Shazier is the single best prospect in this draft.

NFL outlook: We think Shazier is going to be amazing; a perpetual Pro-Bowler who will hit the ground running in the NFL. I suspect it will be as an OLB, and maybe as a Safety. Either way, buckle up, he's going to be awesome.


http://collegefootballmet...2014/LB_Shazier_Ryan.html
- Nucker101

guy's not white is he?

we'll take him if he's not white.

guy's not white is he?

we'll take him if he's not white.
- kicksave856

Are you cool with young bald men?

NFL Draft 2014: Statistical Analysis of OLB Ryan Shazier, Ohio State


I have to be honest. I am totally smitten with Ryan Shazier. Outside of Pitt DT Aaron Donald, this is the best football prospect that I've seen so far in the 2014 process. When I say 'best', I mean best for the NFL...a difference-maker. The type of player who stands out on paper and on film more than others. My worn-out phrase for these type of prospects is, "The Calvin Johnson of ____ (fill-in the position)." By that, I mean a player who is so radically, freakishly different than anything our computer has seen at their particular position...it almost fries the circuitry. It's a prospect that might not just be 'good', or even All-Pro level, but something that could be 'special' in the NFL. That's the kind of prospect that I want to burn a draft pick on.

Of all the high-end OLB/DEs I've watched play this season: Clowney, Mack, Barr, Ford, Ealy, Jeffcoat, et al, Shazier was the best football player I saw...and his measurables humiliate every name mentioned as well.

Comparing Ryan Shazier to Jadeveon Clowney is apples and oranges. Clowney is a purely a 4-3 DE, and a guy you want to rush the passer/backfield. Shazier is not a 4-3 DE, like many versatile guys who are classified as an OLB. Shazier is a pure OLB, whether 4-3 or 3-4...he can do both. You'd probably like him more in a 3-4, but he works either way. The reason I say, "either way" is because Shazier has the perfect OLB/Safety physique. Incredible speed (and we'll detail that in the next section) and athleticism, plus can drop into coverage, and can sneak-rush the backfield, but will also lay a hit on you. At Ohio State, much of the time, he was playing inside linebacker (but he moved around a lot too). He was an under-sized ILB for Ohio State, but a successful nonetheless...he was a complete disrupter.

I thought that Jamie Collins was the "Calvin Johnson of OLBs," but Ryan Shazier is better..."more Calvin," than Collins...and that's no slap at Collins. College football is churning out crazy, bionic super-athletes now...what we used to think was great a few years ago is now "normal." There are new, radical, physical 'freaks' entering the NFL every year now...and Shazier is one of them for 2014.

I watch Shazier on tape, and it is mostly beautiful. He played a lot of middle linebacker for Ohio State, and he looked so out of place visually (size-wise), but then, when the ball was snapped, he looked like he was shot out of a cannon, he was all over the place (in a good way). He makes big hits like a Free Safety, and covers like a CB, but tackles/plays the game so well that he was Ohio State's middle linebacker in a 3-4 scheme...many times the middle linebacker in a 4-3 set-up. He is multi-dimensional with almost no flaw. They do not make many humans like Ryan Shazier...the NFL world may be getting ready to in the future, but for now this is as about as good as it gets at OLB for the NFL.

The one flaw people will find about him, and we think it's lazy scouting, is that he doesn't shed blockers well enough. If you watch the tape, it is true...because most of the times his 237-pound self was perched at middle linebacker, as he bum-rushed up the middle versus Big-10 offensive linemen. If a 300+ interior linemen picks up Shazier coming in, then the O-L will win that battle of horn-locking. Shazier would often win using speed and agility to sail through a crease in the line, or just beat the linemen to a spot with his speed. Shazier won't be a middle linebacker in the NFL...so scouts/analysts commenting about him getting bottled up versus someone like a Wisconsin is silly. You have to envision him at OLB or Strong Safety doing what he does...and he may be a 'god' in the NFL at either of those positions.

At his Pro-Day, Shazier ran an unofficial 4.36 40-time...and that is simply amazing. Pro-Day times, can be a little off, so let's call it 4.46 40-time. OK, a 4.46 40-time is simply amazing. Shazier has the body and athleticism of an elite RB prospect. On paper, he is the best RB prospect in this draft...that's how amazingly athletic Shazier is. His size-speed-athleticism combo is surreal. I said next "Calvin Johnson" of Jamie Collins last year in part because he had a 41.5' vertical, which is off-the-charts for an OLB (or anybody). At the 2014 NFL Combine, Shazier leapt 42".

Shazier seems to be flawless off-the-field, and of character. There are no known issues with him outside of the football field, or on it.



Ryan Shazier, through the lens of our OLB Scouting Algorithm

I love this following pickup from the computer...Shazier has a sensational 2013 regardless of how we chop it up, but the computer thinks it's even better than people realize. In 2013, Shazier led the Big-10 in tackles with 144 (3rd best in all the NCAA for 2013, and 11th all-time in the Big-10 for his career). He was awesome. However, in 2013, Ohio State had three cupcake games where they pulled back the Shazier chain (Buffalo, San Diego State, and Florida A&M). Look at the splits of Shazier versus his three cupcakes, and then his other 11 meaningful games:

5.3 total tackles, 4.0 solo tackles, 1.2 TFLs, 0.0 sacks per game = Shazier vs. 2013 cupcakes

11.6 total tackles, 8.2 solo tackles, 1.8 TFLs, 0.6 sacks per game = Shazier vs. 2013 "rest of the schedule"

Those numbers are sick from a player his size, playing middle and outside linebacker.

Shazier was just not a tackler. He got into the backfield, big-time. He had 23.5 TFLs, the most in the Big-10 (the next closest Big-10 player was 7 TFLs behind him), and he also had the 2nd-most TFLs in the NCAA in 2013. He led the Big-10 in TFLs the prior year as well (17).

In 2012, Shazier was in the Big-10 top-10 for "passes defended" (12). That's a category normally reserved for top CBs, but Shazier jumped up in there...while he also led the Big-10 in TFLs and was 3rd in total tackles. Shazier is 'off the charts' as a performer.

Not only did he crush it on the field, but athletically he is unreal. We've already touched on some of his exploits for 40-times and vertical. Where does he rank among all our OLB prospects in our database in some of those key categories?

He has greatest vertical leap recorded of any OLB prospect in our system along with Dontay Moch at 42"

He has the best 40-time we've recorded, if you trust the Pro-Day, if not, then he is right there with Von Miller's 4.42 range, along with Dontay Moch's, who ran a 4.40

He is one of only 15 OLB prospects in our system analysis to hit below 6.93 on the three-cone drill

He is an "A+" athlete, and an "A+" performer...and you can guess what kind of GPA that will get you in our system...





The NFL LB Ryan Shazier most compares to statistically in college, within our system:

Only Terrell Suggs rates higher than Ryan Shazier at OLB historically for us. Shazier's game isn't quite like Suggs, who is more of a rush-DE/OLB. Von Miller is the same. Shazier is part of a new breed of OLB, the super-athlete like Jamie Collins. Guys who can tackle, rush the passer with great speed-agility, but can also drop into coverage like a CB. For that type of "Swiss Army" OLB, there is no one better we've ever seen than Ryan Shazier.


Our comparables:
Ryan Shazier = 14.21
Jamie Collins = 10.82
Sean Weatherspoon = 10.54
Von Miller = 13.86

Ryan Shazier Overall Metrics Scouting Score = 14.21 ("A+" grade level prospect)

*A score of 8.00+ is where we see a stronger correlation of LBs going on to become NFL good/great/elite. A score of 10.00+ is more rarefied air in our system, and indicates a greater probability of becoming an NFL elite LB.



2014 NFL Draft outlook...

The amazing Pro Day workout, which followed the stellar parts of the NFL Combine Shazier could do, has thrust him into many Mock Draft's 1st-round projection...late 1st-round. He is going 1st-round. I have no doubt about it. I suspect that he will go top-20. There is some minor buzz about his hamstring tweaks in the pre-draft workouts, but I don't think you let them stand in the way here. He has played 38 games for Ohio State the past three seasons.

There is no way, with such an emphasis on the secondary in the NFL, especially to cover TEs, that a guy with Shazier's profile will not go top-20. He should be a top-10. However, the NFL collective brain trust has locked themselves in on Barr-Mack-Ford, and won't let go of it. Shazier will be some smart team's genius move on draft day.

If I were an NFL GM, I'd have a dilemma. So far, I see two clear-cut, future elite football players in this draft: Aaron Donald and Ryan Shazier. My days of getting Donald as a 'sleeper' ended at the NFL Combine. It would take a top-10 pick to be really sure I got him. Shazier is tracking #25-40; he's still a bargain at this stage.

I'd try to pull a two-fer if I could, but if I could only get one of them, I'm not sure what I would do. I suppose I'd go by need first, but all things being equal, I might lean toward Shazier as the best prospect overall based on pick-level/salary, plus the multi-dimensional ways that I can use Shazier. Donald is a DT, end of story. Shazier is an OLB, who can project as an All-Pro Strong Safety, and who could also play some middle linebacker in a pinch, but I also might try to make him my Richard Sherman, and set the NFL-world on its ear with my Robo-CB...a CB sent from the future to the modern day. Hell, you can look at him at RB or WR as well. With all those options; it might be that Ryan Shazier is the single best prospect in this draft.

NFL outlook: We think Shazier is going to be amazing; a perpetual Pro-Bowler who will hit the ground running in the NFL. I suspect it will be as an OLB, and maybe as a Safety. Either way, buckle up, he's going to be awesome.


http://collegefootballmet...2014/LB_Shazier_Ryan.html
- Nucker101

so is this who you want them to take in the 1st round? he your boy?

so is this who you want them to take in the 1st round? he your boy?
- Crimsoninja

As of now, yes.

Are you cool with young bald men?
- Nucker101

he looks like he'll fit right in.

As of now, yes.
- Nucker101

ok. i just hope you fully understand what that means and what you will be held accountable for during the season.

Eagles are not shopping Jackson but are willing to listen to offers, and that so far, the 49ers and the Patriots have inquired. Gunn also said the front office has informed Jackson that it is listening to offers.

Eagles are not shopping Jackson but are willing to listen to offers, and that so far, the 49ers and the Patriots have inquired. Gunn also said the front office has informed Jackson that it is listening to offers.
- watsonnostaw

Is this because he was recently on fashion police?

Eagles are not shopping Jackson but are willing to listen to offers, and that so far, the 49ers and the Patriots have inquired. Gunn also said the front office has informed Jackson that it is listening to offers.
- watsonnostaw

apparently this morning he was told this is just sillyness and they aren't trading him.

also, if they trade desean (frank)ing jackson for a 3rd (frank)ing round (frank)ing pick they are (frank)ing dead to me.

i hope they're just (frank)ing with his head to make him stop asking for more money every other time they talk to him.

Eagles are not shopping Jackson but are willing to listen to offers, and that so far, the 49ers and the Patriots have inquired. Gunn also said the front office has informed Jackson that it is listening to offers.
- watsonnostaw

Can those teams even afford his cap hit? I'd only trade him for a good return, not a (frank)ing late 3rd.

apparently this morning he was told this is just sillyness and they aren't trading him.

also, if they trade desean (frank)ing jackson for a 3rd (frank)ing round (frank)ing pick they are (frank)ing dead to me.

i hope they're just (frank)ing with his head to make his stop asking for more money every other time they talk to him.
- kicksave856

(frank)ing right