4/6 MON
HAPPY EASTER MONDAY!
(7:58amET)
Today
-- New series begins: A ‘special’ Dynasty Rookie Draft...
A DRD with the rookies from 2025 + 2026 + a special group of specially selected players outside of that. You’ll see who/the details when it opens up today.
-- Dynasty Rankings update
-- Next Scouting Report MON or TUE
-- More head coaching pressers from 3/30-31 analyzed.
-- NFL Draft position grades ...OCs group debut MON
-- Top 100 prospects update list from Xavier Cromartie
This Week’s/Month’s Agenda…
-- Prospect grades by position and rankings boards are being debuted, updated and added to daily/weekly for the next 5 months.
-- Dynasty and Best Ball rankings audits/updates daily/weekly. Starting up the IDP studies to try to get them done by early/mid-April.
-- 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 Mike Sando reports several anonymous NFL executives believe A.J. Brown will be traded to the Patriots in June.
June trade? That makes no sense. If it goes down, I think this long-awaited trade would be done ahead of the draft...for both team’s sake. Philly needs to know how hot they need to come after a WR in the draft. If they trade AJB pre-Draft...don’t you have to put them in play for drafting a WR at #23?
I still think there’s a chance they hold this all together one more season and blow it all to smithereens in 2027, if 2026 isn’t a big/great season. Sirianni (fired)...Hurts (trade)...AJB (gone)...Fangio (retires)...Lane Johnson (retires) -- this group could all be gone this time next year as the Eagles decide to have a rebuild season.
-- HEADLINE: Titans coach Robert Saleh said “I love our running back room right now.”
Saleh said, “Shoot, Pollard dropped over 100 on us (last season) so I think he’s pretty good ... Spears has tremendous versatility as a three-down back and they both play with a physical mindset. … I’m a believer in our backfield and I think it’s a group that can help our team,” Saleh continued before saying it was one of the better running back rooms in football.
Yeah, I don’t know why Tennessee would waste a high draft pick on Jeremiah Love when Tony Pollard is arguably just as good, and way cheaper. I know it’s hard to be better than ‘the next Travis Etienne’ (their words, not mine).
I like Love, but drafting him in the 1st-round is silly...but it’s gonna happen.
-- HEADLINE: The Athletic’s Zac Jackson believes that, barring a trade down, the Browns will take Ohio State WR Carnell Tate with the No. 6 overall pick.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Cleveland made this huge mistake, seeing how they wasted last year’s 1st-rounder on the stiff DT Mason Graham...but I think they are just fishing for a trade back to ultimately take an offensive lineman (no matter where they pick) and add draft capital.
-- FACTS...
https://x.com/sleepernfl/status/2040198316185772298?s=43
The Bears and Bills are going in opposite directions. The Bills are being run into the ground by their awful GM, who has been living off Josh Allen for a long time now. The Bears fleeced the Bills out of a critical pick, one where I bet they draft a Center from this class rich with nice Center prospects (to replace Drew Dalman).
-- Your moment of Zen to start the week...
https://x.com/drclownphd/status/2040655922997985309?s=43
== 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:
NFC East finals/Sweet 16: (1) CHI v. (3) MIN...I’m not sure how Minnesota got here, but they aren’t going any further. The Bears are better than the Vikes in every way from coaching staff to QB to defense, etc. And after the draft, I’m sure the gap between them will get even wider. Easy win for the Bears.
Tomorrow...we have the NFC South finals...(3) ATL v. (4) NO
Past results:
AFC East: (1) NE d. (4) NYJ, (2) BUF d. (3) MIA = (1) NE d. (2) BUF
AFC North: (1) PIT d. (4) CLE, (3) CIN d. (2) BAL = (1) PIT d. (3) CIN
AFC South: (1) JAX d. (4) TEN, (3) IND d. (2) HOU = (3) IND d. (1) JAX
AFC West: (1) DEN d. (4) LV, (2) LAC d. (3) KC = (2) LAC d. (1) DEN
NFC East: (1) PHI d. (4) NYG, (2) DAL d. (3) WSH = (1) PHI d. (2) DAL
NFC North: (1) CHI d. (4) DET, (3) MIN d. (2) GB
NFC South: (4) NO d. (1) CAR, (3) ATL d. (2) TB
NFC West: (1) SEA d. (4) ARI, (2) LAR at (3) SF
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