01-30-2017, 02:14 PM
(01-30-2017, 12:31 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: It's a huge jump from high school to college. Then a bigger jump from college to NFL.
Plus, a lot of high school defenses these kids face have very little talent. A fast kid can just run outside and rack up yards. In college's obviously everyone has talent and speed or they wouldn't be there.
Look at the draft success rate in the NFL. The 1st Round of any particular draft might have 10 Pro Bowl players. Why not higher? Well...the jump from college to Pro is huge.
I get all that, and if we were looking at the top 1,000 or 10,000 high school players I would not be even a little surprised a majority didn't make it to the NFL. But they were talking the top 100, out of the over one million kids who play HS football, so you would think if the talent evaluations meant anything then those kids should be virtual locks. And in fact, it seemed like most of them went to major college programs and could have and should have been able to "make the jump." But, some failed in college and then some after. Just seems to cast doubt on the rankings. The average fan on here posting mock drafts by the score could generate a top 100 list as accurate as that one, apparently.
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