"Can't Miss" Players in 2014 NFL Draft
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Post your player(s)...
Make your case...
Let the battle begin...
My can't miss list members in order (* denotes new additions):
- Sammy Watkins (WR-Clemson)
- Jake Mathews (OT-TAMU)
- Anthony Barr (OLB-UCLA)
- Khalil Mack* (OLB-BUF)
- Jadeveon Clowney (DE-SCar)
- Kony Ealy* (DE-Missou)
I have one recent deletion:
- Gabe Jackson (OG-MissSt - bad Sr. Bowl week)
Still under consideration (in no particular order):
- Eric Ebron (TE-NC);
- Mike Evans (WR-TAMU);
- Marqise Lee (WR-USC);
- Greg Robinson (OT-Auburn);
- David Yankey (OG-Stanford)
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nice list.
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I see you have no QBs on your list. Explain please.
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I see you have no QBs on your list. Explain please.
He specified what he thought are can't miss prospects. What to explain?I see you have no QBs on your list. Explain please.
WSS
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I see you have no QBs on your list. Explain please.
I see you have no QBs on your list. Explain please.
QBs are just a lot harder to label as "can't miss". You see a lot of people questioning aspects of Manziel, Bridgewater, Bortles, etc. But you don't really see people criticizing watkins' hands, awareness, speed, etc.
Everyone can miss though. QBs more likely than others.
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No such thing as a "can't miss" player in the draft. Put their names on a routlette wheel, and I wouldn't even make a bet...
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He specified what he thought are can't miss prospects. What to explain?I see you have no QBs on your list. Explain please.
WSS
He specified what he thought are can't miss prospects. What to explain?
WSS
I just thought I might like his opinion on why any of the top QB prospects do not fall into the "can't miss" category. I don't disagree with him, I just thought I might like to know his reasoning.
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Luck was considered one of the biggest can't miss players in years. For all positions.
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I see you have no QBs on your list. Explain please.
I see you have no QBs on your list. Explain please.
I also have no RBs, FBs, DTs, ILBs, CBs, FSs, SSs, Ps, or Ks. Does not mean there aren't any... just that I have not tabbed any.... yet.
He specified what he thought are can't miss prospects. What to explain?
Bingo...
QBs are just a lot harder to label as "can't miss". You see a lot of people questioning aspects of Manziel, Bridgewater, Bortles, etc. But you don't really see people criticizing watkins' hands, awareness, speed, etc.
Exactly... It's all probablility based. The greater the skill set required, the higher the bar to "can't miss". And, to borrow a phrase from The Right Stuff. QBs are "at the top of the pyramid."
No such thing as a "can't miss" player in the draft. Put their names on a routlette wheel, and I wouldn't even make a bet...
Here are a few I have tabbed: Joe Thomas... Patrick Peterson... Ndamukong Suh... Calvin Johnson... Andrew Luck... Orlando Pace...
There are players in nearly every draft who are so ready to excel in the NFL that the only things that can keep them from stardom are injury (Greg Cook)... and sometimes not even that (Adrian Peterson)... or self-destruction (Von Miller... so far...).
Are there ever consensus "can't miss" players that miss? Sure, but that's on the evaluators... not the players. Have I ever mislabelled a player as "can't miss"? Yup... while I was not for taking him as high as we did, I thought TR was going to be a stud, but I had Doug Martin as a better value.
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Luck was considered one of the biggest can't miss players in years. For all positions.
Yea Luck's don't come around often though.
You could go back a lot of drafts and most of the top QBs wouldn't go in the 1st if we knew then what we did then.
But when there is a "can't miss" guy they could fail miserably (Ryan Leaf). And of course guys with question marks could be incredible.
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Luck was considered one of the biggest can't miss players in years. For all positions.
Yea Luck's don't come around often though.
You could go back a lot of drafts and most of the top QBs wouldn't go in the 1st if we knew then what we did then.
But when there is a "can't miss" guy they could fail miserably (Ryan Leaf). And of course guys with question marks could be incredible.
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Gipper there are also no safeties guards inside linebackers kickers or punters in his top 6.
And we understand that can't miss players sometimes, well, miss.
But it's probably fair to say that a guy should be a once every few years calibre player to be considered a can't miss prospect. Disagree?
WSS
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Joe Thomas was a can't miss guy
You don't have to list all the "can't miss" guys who turned out good, because I don't want to list all the "can't miss" guys who turned out to bust... thanks
I'll play along though:
If there were any "can't miss" players in this draft, here's who I think:
Anthony Barr - OLB - UCLA - at 6'4" 250 with great speed, he's a can't miss OLB for a 3-4 team b/c he doesn't have to convert - he played 3-4 OLB in college.
Jadaveon Clowney - DE - So.Car - he is ONLY a "can't miss" if he plays 4-3 DE. I would never call a pass rusher who has to convert to OLB as "can't miss"
Jake Matthews - OT - TA&M - it's easy to predict OTs will be "can't miss," but different blocking schemes and QB styles can affect guys at the next level
C.J. Mosley - LB - Alabama - I call him "can't miss" because he is very versatile. Can fit inside in a 3-4 or outside in a 4-3, either way he's always around the ball
Kony Ealy - DE - Missouri - another "can't miss" ONLY if he plays 4-3 DE. "Might" fit a 3-4 DE, but again, you never know when systems change
Question marks surrounding all the other players projected in the first round IMHO. There are other players that I think will be good, but I couldn't call them "can't miss." I would never put that label on a QB, RB, WR, or CB because it is so difficult to grade those positions b/c of the widespread level of competetion they are against in college... just my thoughts...
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Gipper there are also no safeties guards inside linebackers kickers or punters in his top 6.
And we understand that can't miss players sometimes, well, miss.
But it's probably fair to say that a guy should be a once every few years calibre player to be considered a can't miss prospect. Disagree?
WSS
Gipper there are also no safeties guards inside linebackers kickers or punters in his top 6.
And we understand that can't miss players sometimes, well, miss.
But it's probably fair to say that a guy should be a once every few years calibre player to be considered a can't miss prospect. Disagree?
WSS
OK, but no position gets the attention that a QB gets.....look at this forum....90% of it is dedicated to yammering on and on about the QB position.
If Tour says "no QB in my opinion rates a can't miss" I would not argue...probably agree. But when you state that opinion on such a hot button topic people want to also know Why?
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Clowney is from S.Car. Not Clempsun. Please fix that egregious mistake before he realizes it and eats the entire message board.
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