Ohio State DE and top prospect Bosa draws a Suggs comparison. Reception Perception likes TCU’s Doctson. Fear overshadows the facts with the public’s opinion on CTE. Women have come a long way in football’s boys club. Ravens’ executives have conflicting opinions on Monroe. Harbaugh talks about Tray Walker.
Best NFL Team Fits For No. 1 Prospect Joey Bosa
Jeff Dooley of Pro Football Focus says Joey Bosa projects as a 4-3 defensive end. He still thinks that he is a good fit for the Ravens, though, calling him the perfect heir apparent to Terrell Suggs on the edge of the Ravens’ defense. “Bosa is a similar player to Suggs,” Dooley said, “as a bigger edge player who doesn’t test off the charts athletically but is simply a very productive player against both the run and the pass.”
I haven’t been the biggest fan of Bosa through this process. His failed drug test worries me, and he lacks superior athleticism. If he is the last of the potential top 5 options remaining, however, I would be happy if the Ravens picked him up. The Suggs comparison seems like a fair one, given Suggs’Â drop after a poor athletic performance at the NFL Combine.
Reception Perception: 2016 NFL Draft Prospects Results
Matt Harmon of NFL.com and creator of Reception Perception came out with the 2016 draft edition earlier this month. For those unfamiliar, Reception Perception is a tool used to evaluate receivers. He charts success rate against each type of coverage and on each type of route. The prospect who grades out the best this year is TCU’s Josh Doctson.
Football and CTE: fear overshadows facts
With all of the talk about the long-term mental health effects of repeated blows to the head, sometimes emotion can fill in the voids that science has yet to substantiate. Eric Adelson of Yahoo Sports lays out all of the uncertainty surrounding CTE. The results of a study that showed 90 of 94 deceased NFL athletes who donated their brains to science had CTE have been poorly understood. If you donate your brain to science, you are much more likely to be having problems. Players don’t think about that, and they overestimate how likely they are to have the disease. That leads to them confusing common mental illnesses like depression with symptoms of CTE.
Depression can be treated. NFL athletes think they have CTE instead of that and don’t seek the treatment that could help them. One NHL athlete, Todd Ewen, even took his life because of that confusion.
The Past, Present and Future of Women and the NFL’s ‘Boys Club’
Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report tells the journey of women in the NFL. He tells of the pioneer of women in the NFL, Susan Spencer, who was the acting general manager of the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1980s. The things she went through to gain respect have led to a generation of women with actual hope of making a career in the NFL.
Now, the NFL has expanded the Rooney Rule to include women. I’m not a fan of mandates like that – is interviewing someone really going to change a predisposed racist or sexist’s mind? – but it’s a sign of the league as a whole is becoming much more accepting of a woman with a leadership position in football.
Is Eugene Monroe the Ravens’ starting LT in 2016? Depends on who you ask
Eugene Monroe hasn’t been durable the past couple of years, despite what Bisciotti told us yesterday. That has led some to speculate about his place on the 2016 roster. If you listened to Harbaugh yesterday, you would think Monroe’s status with the team is up in the air. If you listened to Bisciotti, you wouldn’t even think there was a conversation for someone else to start at left tackle. Jeff Zrebiec of The Baltimore Sun attributes that to Harbaugh’s and Bisciotti’s different perspectives.
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