3/23 MON
(7:26amET)
Today
-- New scouting report: Jadarius Price
NFL Draft position grade RB-s rankings adds + updates.
Pro Day Notes from 3/19/26
*This week...Best Ball rankings debut, and Dynasty valuation/rankings update
This Week’s Agenda…
-- Prospect grades by position and rankings boards are being debuted, updated and added to daily/weekly for the next 6 months.
-- Dynasty rankings audits/updates daily/weekly. Starting up the IDP studies to try to get them done by the end of month/early April.
-- Final components and studies for publishing Best Ball debut rankings ASAP.
-- Holy series QB and RB done. Holy RB Handcuffs underway.
-- Full scouting reports on prospects from now until the NFL preseason.
-- Any FFM News & Notes or Special Reports during the day as I get them.
-- New coaching staff hire’s analysis series...going through the entire staff...I am working on the framework of how I want to present that. This will be a first ever series (for me) where I go beyond ‘just the new head coaches’. ETA in early April to start it up.
== NEWS & NOTES & Xs ==
-- HEADLINE: The Athletic’s Michael-Shawn Dugar believes Kenny McIntosh “should get an opportunity” to be one of Seattle’s lead backs.
Wow, this one is out of left field. I will say, when he got a late season little bump/run in 2024...he really looked pretty good. Quite frankly, it was easy to forget he even existed. But for a team without much ‘big name energy’ at RB...sure, McIntosh has a chance...I guess.
The current name GM John Schneider is talking about the most, at this point...Emanuel Wilson.
Here are some recent quotes from GM Schneider:
Schneider spoke with 710 Seattle Sports on Thursday, March 19, 2026, and provided the most detailed breakdown of the group:
"That’s a position where you can find guys. Obviously, [Walker was] outstanding, and everybody’s really excited for him. I mean, that’s a great, great contract for a running back. But George [Holani] did a great job. We’re really excited about Emanuel Wilson, who we got from the Green Bay Packers, a heavy runner with really nice feet."
"Just to kind of quell people, at this time of the year I get it... But, like, [Zach Charbonnet] is doing great [recovering]. Kenny McIntosh, he had a great [2024] season, and that was just an awful [ACL] injury for him. But I get it. And it’s a position that… we know where we’re at right now."
Emanuel Wilson
- Schneider's Take: He described Wilson as a "heavy runner with really nice feet" and someone the team is "really excited about" after his stint in Green Bay. Insiders suggest Schneider views him as a high-value addition who can handle a "larger role" rather than just being a depth piece.
George Holani
- Schneider's Take: Schneider noted that "George did a great job" and has been singing his praises unprompted in recent press availability.
- Team Action: Seattle officially signed Holani to his ERFA (Exclusive Rights Free Agent) tender on March 16, 2026, ensuring he stays for the 2026 season. Coaches have reportedly valued his pass protection and reliability during the 2025 playoff run.
Kenny McIntosh
- Schneider's Take: He acknowledged that McIntosh is still battling back from a significant injury, calling it an "awful [ACL] injury for him" but noted that McIntosh's 2024 production remains the baseline they hope he can return to.
-- Tom Brady comeback?
I would not be surprised at all if Brady makes a comeback. I had him on a Dynasty rosters/rankings, then took him off...but I am putting him back on.
He was asked about Kubiak hiring and the Crosby trade, and we got this ‘word salad’/politician non-answer: https://x.com/victafur/status/2035517250682433720?s=43
Brady is involved in way too many things to be effective at anything so far...it’s fine that he tries, but the Raiders don’t seem to be getting any success from this. Elon Musk wears several hats...Tom Brady was good at football. We don’t know how he is as a football exec or multiple business CEO or anything else. So far, the Raiders have been an abject disaster under Brady.
My gut is starting to wonder if Kubiak is the stoic, uninspiring O-C turned HC working with a terrible management structure that’s akin to the Kevin Stefanski Cleveland experience?
-- Speaking of comebacks...
I’d say this is confirmation he is serious about 2026...
https://youtu.be/gbAjliqmM3w?si=DjSZqYpsJJ9S6abL
If he goes to LAC, I’m gonna be hopping-Gadsden-mad (chases Mike McDaniel there at a big discount so LAC can’t say ‘no’).
== New Daily Series: Best Teams for 2026 Season Post-Free Agency ==
It’s March...March Madness time...so let’s do it tournament style. One matchup per day. Teams seeded in their division by their 2025 finish. We go through the divisions to the Final Four in each conference, to the overall Final Four, and then the finals. Strictly my early grades on the teams after all the coaching staffs have been put in place and most all of free agency worth noting is done. Assuming every player on the roster is healthy/never hurt.
The first round will likely go pretty predictably, but I do see at least one major ‘upset’ by a bottom seed.
Here we go:
AFC West: (2) LAC d. (3) KC...At what position are the Chiefs better than the Chargers? Possibly the D-Line is a debate, and that is it. Everywhere else...the Chargers defeat and many times crush the Chiefs position group by position group. Easy win for LAC to go on to face the Broncos next round.
Tomorrow...we start the NFC.
Past results:
AFC East: (1) NE d. (4) NYJ, (2) BUF d. (#) MIA
AFC North: (1) PIT d. (4) CLE, (3) CIN d. (2) BAL
AFC South: (1) JAX d. (4) TEN, (3) IND d. (2) HOU
AFC West: (1) DEN d. (4) LV,
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