Grading The 2023 NFL Draft 1 Year Later (Picks 17-31) 

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Very happy with Deonte Banks, they really just put him out there 1v1 against the opposing team's top receiver every week and he mostly held his own

Dont forget JSN injured his hand in preseason and so his first 4 nfl games were abysmal and you could see his numbers start the same time his hand got better.

JSN played in a run heavy offense that featured both dk metcalf and Tyler Locket which everyone knows, but many outside Seattle don’t know that he broke his arm last week of preseason, had surgery, and never missed a game. Literally played the first six weeks in a cast at RECEIVER. It was a pretty encouraging rookie season in my opinion.

Jack Campbell was pretty good. He got fewer snaps because the Lions are very deep at LB and could afford to bring him along slowly. That said, he is huge, he is mobile, and a very smart player. He studies film for a hobby. He will be a force for the next decade with the Lions. That said, out of the Lions first 4 picks,Gibb, Campbell, LaPorta, and Branch, he had the worst season. If that is the case, the Lions have some players! A strong draft class for sure.

Finally someone with a good take on Jack Campbell. You can tell he’s truly a physical presence and has massive upside. With the split playing time, they also had him playing at the Will and Sam spots primarily. When he was given full reigns of the Mike during the saints game, he had his best performance of the season.

As a kincaid fantasy owner it did not feel like he only had 2 touchdowns LOL It felt like more

Mazi Smith’s grade hurts but is 100% accurate. Hope next year we get him in there more.

I really hated the Quentin Johnston pick ( as what seemed like a majority of charger fans) but with that said. His tape was never suppose to be streaks and go's and long posts. I hope he get's a lot more slants and drags next year he really wasn't used to his strengths at all

So Zay might be trying to speedrun the Ray Rice career path

Mazi also was weak this year BECAUSE he was made to lose weight before the season. dropped down to like 280s when he played closer to 320s/330 in college. If he builds strength back as he gains weight he'll be worth it

As a Hawks fan, I am soo glad we got JSN. a C+ is very low. You provided very little context, didnt mention him starting the year hurt, nor that our OLine got hurt early, leading to us using 3 TE sets, the fact that we wanted to be a running team and the abysmal playcalling by Waldron.

As Chargers fan I feel you were very generous when it comes to QJ grade

... TELESCOOOOOOO!!!!! **shakes fist at the sky**

Thank you Carolina! We love CJ in Houston!

Kincaid didn't have a lot of touchdowns but he was like top 5 in rookie TE receptions and set the bills record for that stat. He's been pretty good once they started using him more after Brady took over. Future is bright there.

Addison was much better than Flowers and it should be a B+. 5 TD's is a big gap.

I would imagine Mazi smith hadn’t played more because coaches think he isn’t that good. You have 18 games to grade, they have 1000 hours of practice

Def thought you should consider JPJ a first round pick at 32

Nice explanation

Im once again asking to get rid of Incomplete grades. If a player improves next year then you can just update the grade when you make the next video. All first round picks could be consider incomplete since it’s only one year but we want to see how they performed

Great rookie recap Homie ! 🏈🏈🏈

i think anton could be a top ten ot in the future

How would you grade Bears corner Tyrique Stevenson? Thought he played really well as the season went on.

I know Joey Porter Jr was technically a 2nd round pick, but I would love to hear your grade on him!

Im happy with Jack Campbell. He didn't make the splash of Gibbs, branch and Laporta. But part of that was how big a step linebacker Derrick Barnes took in his third year. Campbell really looked like he was improving every game. And hes the kind of player who can be your rock solid veteran starter with the green dot for 10 or more years

I think you should do a grade with an asterisk for incomplete grades unless the player was injured after the first week or two

Can You do a redraft of 2023

Giving an incomplete grade for injury or if they are sat all year, is one thing. Giving an incomplete because they were not good enough to earn more reps is a cop out. And no, first round picks, even later ones, are not developmental. Fail.

You should do all second round picks

This is just random draft wonderings but rounds seem so varied. Like in the first you've literally got the most hyped players in the draft and then people who are drafted for development at the end. Like the difference between pick 32 and 33 (in a normal year) os the same as the difference between 32 and 31 but instead the guy at number 32 is on the same categoru as number 1

Jordan Addison he's a awesome one of a kind player with Minnesota teaming up with Justin Jefferson it's amazing Addison getting a solid A is perfect for him he will get better then he will ever be in 2024 for sure 10:18

Packers had one of the best drafts last year. In a redraft based on production 3 of their players were taken in the first round and 5 in the first 2 rounds.

Did you just LOW KEY just say the LIONS will be in the Superbowl NEXT YEAR ight after the JACK CAMPBELL pick 😊.. I AGREE there won't be a single Lions player playing in "THAT GAME" theit super bowl bound...🎉🎉🎉

One note on Jack Campbell this year - he played all of his snaps rotating through Will, Sam, and Mike, meaning that he didn’t really get the opportunity to settle down and play at his natural MLB for any extended run during the year. The one time he did get the opportunity to play the full game at Mike was the Saints game, where he played probably his best football of the year and posted a couple TFL’s. So the hope is that he is going to be able to lock down the MLB job full time next year and take a step forward from where he was this first year.

As bad as the Patriots' offense is, Gonzales was a great pick and they have a playoff-level defense. When you are losing games and only allowing your opponent to score 10 or fewer points, there isn't much more you can ask of the D.

QJ should be an F, I have legit never seen a receiver play worse than he did. I wouldn't be shocked if hes cut halfway through next year

I mean obviously I’m a biased Seahawks fan and knocking JSN for his drops is completely valid. But you didn’t mention the handful (pun intended) of insane catches he had. I know this is more of an overview of statistical performances, but those few catches jump off the screen and show that he has an insane amount of upside, and there are very few receivers at his height who are even close to his catch radius.

Remember when all of the "experts" were sh!tting all over Detroit for taking Campbell and Gibbs while lauding Green Bay for using their first pick on Shea McClellin 2.0? Even as a Chicago Bears fan I have a real appreciation for the job that Dan Campbell is doing up in Detroit. Detroit has been doing all of the things and hiring all of the right people while my Bears still can't figure out if Justin Fields is a bust after 3 crummy seasons.

Banks from the giants give me so much adore Jackson vibes

Quite literally everyone on the jags o-line was terrible at run blocking, Anyon in his first year was still the jags 2nd best lineman last year behind cam Robinson

Do the dolphins get an F for losing their draft pick ?

johnston snubbed of an F

Incomplete should only be for injury. If they dont play, they arent good enough and i think that matters a lot.

I’m liking your videos but just a couple notes: JJ was out for a lot of games and JA filled in well as a WR1. He didn’t need JJ to perform. I thought he’d be a slot guy but he was a great deep threat and contested catch guy. QJ was also just awful all year for LA. They had to force feed him the ball because Keenan was doubled but even then he dropped almost everything. His stats may look better but he did not improve.

And now Felix got a ring

As a Seahawks fan, i would have taken a Kalijah Cancey, Bresee, Murphy or Mazi over JSN and I like JSN. But we needed d line more than a wr.

I wonder who the Dolphins would have drafted and if it would have made a difference.

QJ was the most developmental pick out of all the first round wr. His production pre mike williams was expected.

As a Vikings fan, Addison is only a B+ a lot of his yards and TD’s came on broken plays. He disappeared at times. And he had 9 games being the #1 WR in our offense. With JJ getting hurt in KC game, missing 7 games, then leaving in the 1st quarter of Vegas game. Yet we had the #6 passing offense. Struggled creating separation and catching balls in traffic. He’s a great #3 WR but didn’t elevate to a WR2 type of player despite plenty of time to do so.

Offensive Linemen pass block AND run block.

Can you grade the 2022 draft class 2 years later

Flowers made some huge mistakes in their playoff game that got the Ravens eliminated. Not impressive and the unsportsmanlike cost them a chance to win.

Pick 32 ended up being a steal for the steelers, how JPJ fell to the 2nd is beyond me

"If Kirk was healthy we'd be looking at a 1000 yard and 10 TD receiver" So....90 more yards? Lol

Can we get picks 32-47?

The signs were there for Johnston being a bust, dude can only make body catches

Im saving this video for work later today. 😂 or at least im trying to. I saw my boy Addison and i clicked download. He's the only player that I actually bought an autographed card from on eBay. I haven’t gotten it graded yet. Great 👍 content 👌. I been here since the beginning.

Not a saints fan. But I think breeze is B+ at least. He’s gonna be good

Purdue and IU catching strays 😂

As a steelers fan, I interpeted the Zay take as sarcasm after that playoff game 10:32

So the players u liked coming out and played bad get incomplete grades but guys u didn’t get bad grades

Too many incompletes bro but dig the videos

Brandon Beanes masterclass to undercut the cowboys and get a B+ TE. Let’s not forget the mid season Rousul Douglas trade that low key saved the Bills entire season.

Yeah this dude hates the cowboys😂gives the previous project picks incomplete grades but gives mazi an f

I would give Detroit an F for the Jack Campbell. Solely because their division rival got a much better LB undrafted. They reached on both their 1 picks. Could’ve traded back and got both at the end of the first round

Jaxson Smith Njigba is special player special young man but to real he'd should've been on a better team perhaps the Houston Texans so JSN and Stroud would be a perfect teammate like they were at Ohio State University 13:19

I thought puka lead in yards for rookies !?!?

Wasn't Justin Jefferson out for a good part of the season? And Addison excelled anyway? And re Smith-Njigba, if eight drops doesn't get you a D, I don't know what should.

Do the second round

Mazi’s problem was he had no get off on the ball. They brought him in to stuff the run and take on double teams, in every clip played he gets blown off the ball by 5 yards. Very disappointing play.

ha rhe eagles wish they took a db like porter too now

thank u for trying to do less incompletes. we understand its just for their rookie years we arent gonna bash u in 3 years when theyre superstars lol

Totally off base with mazi. Gets repeatedly blown off the ball that’s why he doesn’t play

Qj is D- or F

You throw out F grades way too easily. An F should be for players who literally are about to not be on the team anymore next season. Not an F for a player who had a bit of an underwhelming season

15:42 Hope so my friend :,)

SKOL baby

What’s the purpose of doing a grade video when most of the selections are “incomplete” grade according to you. A grade should be given. If they can’t get a starting position, that’s a “D”. Iff F he can’t perform when they do pkwy, that’s as an “F”.

Hey, the way you post these videos should be the other way around especially if you are counting down. Would be a nice change rather than going 16-1 to then 32-17 as it would just make more sense to post them in that order

JSN broke his wrist in the preseason and was expected to miss the first 2 weeks minimum when diagnosed. Play weeks 1 through 4 with a hard cast covering his wrist and palm

i hate that as an eagles fan i have to be encouraging to the cowboys, but look at jordan davis. he had a killer 2nd year, at least for the first half, mazi still has time. hard to make an impact as a big guy.

Really incomplete grade. Just give a F and keep it moving.

Giving incomplete grades to players that were bad or didn’t contribute just defeats the purpose of making these videos this early. I get you’re trying to be nice but we want to see GRADES

13:24 I love hearing how talented Smith is, but couldn’t beat Michigan lol 😂

You're being too critical of these poor performing rookies. They just need more time to learn the game script and polish up on their acting. I would recommend the owners send them to a WWE camp. 😉🤣

Quentin Johnston can’t play catch E ya e ya or Why did Spanos draft this guy E ya e ya or When Herbert throws a perfect spiral But his butter fingers cause the play a fumble Quentin Johnston can’t play catch E ya e ya or

Zay Flowers is fantastic of a player wearing the Baltimore Ravens he's fast he's got excellent quickness he's got real excellent hands too but he's gonna be a problem to deal with 11:24

I really appreciate your willingness to give incomplete grades and recognize when someone was drafted as a developmental project player, all too often analysts are happy to throw neccesary context like that out of the window and give a bad grade without taking into account the role they were drafted to play, i appreciate you prioritizing nuance over flashy context-less grades

It takes defensive linemen a while to

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Maybe you should wait more than 1 year before grading draft picks

Worked my entire adult life in healthcare from EMT to ED’s & ICU’s. A necessary evil.

Mazi Smith lost a lot of weight.

Zay Flowers might be causing more problems for the women in his life than opposing cbs based on recent news...

Jordan Addison would have put up better numbers if Kirk's achilles didn't snap.

Kincaid not even the best TE in his draft 🥱🥱

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Calijah Kancey is a D-. He couldn't stay healthy, 2 of his 4 sacks he was on the ground the QB tripped on him, he barely got any pressure even when he was single covered 99% of his snaps, and when the rest of the line wasn't getting pressure he was a non factor. Tell me you don't grade these player without watching these players. YaYa Diaby was a beast on the bucs third round pick with so much more production and was actually on the field all but 1 game