Kenneth Walker's performance may improve RB value for the coming draft
Love & Price may need to thank him.
Walker's last year at Michigan State was their last good year: 11-2 with a Peach Bowl win. Hard to understate his value as an RB
after he was the only offensive player in this Super Bowl who could make things happen for more than half the game.
Replies to: Kenneth Walker's performance may improve RB value for the coming draft
JLove projected as 8th pick in one rating service.
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Lots of mock drafts predict him either 8th to Saints or 9th to Chiefs. Imagine JLove with Mahomes...
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I saw him as high as 2nd pick on the thing ESPN runs at the bottom of their TV coverage during
other sports.
That’s prospect, not pick.
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I think one guy actually had him at number 2 but I was reading the bottom of the ESPN news and I
could have not seen it correctly, but it had several guys and their picks so I may have been correct.
Generally speaking, Love is considered the best non-qb "talent" in the draft
But he isn't going to get picked at #2 because there are other positions that are more important than RB.
I'm not sure what you saw but what I saw in the crawl was Love as the 2nd best talent in the draft, not a guy who was going to get picked 2nd. I love the NFL draft and it is pretty much a consensus that he goes in the 8/9 range. One of the wackier sites has him @7 to Washington but that makes little sense considering Washington has bigger needs that RB.
The board monitor has dropped in to keep the kiddies in line
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There are several RBs who have had a major impact
Robinson, Gibbs, Williams, McCaffrey, Barkley, Taylor and Cook to name a few.
The way the RB position is evolving is that there a just a few high-end backs who impact a game while the others become interchangeable cogs in a two-back platoon. Love has the potential to be a top 10 back in the league whereas Price seems to fit well into a two back rotation type.
Not sleeping on chance for Price to be featured
In the right place.
I just saw a stat that the top 12 paid WRs had zero playoff wins.
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Re: I just saw a stat that the top 12 paid WRs had zero playoff wins.
That’s because they are massively overplayed compared to impact on the team winning a game.
Outside of Mahomes in 22 (17.2%) and 23 (16.9%)
The next highest paid QBs as a percentage of CAP were
Steve Young at 13.1% in 1994 and Brady at 12.6% in 2001
Paying a WR 30m …approx 10% of the CAP is nuts
You need more than 1 WR….and even then they touch the ball maybe 8-15 times a game max….and the worse the teams QB the less impactful those touches are likely to be:
The difference between the 30th best WR and the top 10 is fairly small at least compared to the difference between the 30th QB and the top 10
Wow!
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