The Chicago Bears have forever been plagued by injury issues at tackle and a Chicago Tribune report says Teven Jenkins had a bad back at the end of his college career, a situation the team s fans have seen before with draft picks.
Washington’s draft was packed with elite athletes. How has that worked out in the past?
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If there was a single theme unifying the picks that the Washington Football Team made in the 2021 draft - beyond being “good culture guys” - it would be top-end athleticism. Mathematician Kent Lee Platte (@MathBomb, on Twitter) developed a tool called “Relative Athletic Score” (RAS) to compare how players at various positions stack up against one another on key stature and athleticism metrics. Washington’s 2021 draft class is pretty impressive in that regard:
The #WFT 2021 draft class had 8 elite #RAS athletes. This is tied for the 4th most all time (out of 1,076 draft classes).
Trade demand seems to be the catch-all phrase for this NFL season.
It has revolved around quarterbacks to date but on Wednesday a new trade demand came down for a different position player and perhaps it s something the Bears need to look at closely because it s someone at a position of need.
Baltimore tackle Orlando Brown said he wants to be dealt but it s not necessarily a demand engineered immediately by cash concerns.
Certainly in the long run it involves more money but Brown proved in 2020 he could be a strong left tackle and he won t get the chance to return to the position he played last year if he stays in Baltimore.