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This is the late round podcast with your host, J.J. Zacharisa.

What's up, everyone?

It's J.J. Zacharisen.

In this episode 1099 of the late round fantasy football podcast,

thanks for tuning in. We're just about wrapped up with the NFL draft season, but there's one thing

I wanted to research before fully turning the page. As you all know, I've got prospect models.

I use the various Zapp models to help me project how well a player is going to perform in fantasy

football at the NFL level.

And as you all know, the college football landscape has changed dramatically over the last five or

six years.

We had a pandemic and that COVID season simply didn't count for players.

A player could dismiss it completely as if it didn't happen from an eligibility standpoint.

And some players at smaller programs didn't even play.

That meant it became more common over this time period for players to stick around for an additional year before declaring for the draft.

Meanwhile, name image and likeness rules passed, which allowed athletes to get paid.

That meant in order to get a whole lot of money,

some players didn't have to only try to make it to the NFL. They could do it in college, too.

There's also transfer rules. They changed during this time frame. Players could more freely move

from one school to another without having to sit out, which meant more movement in order to find

the right spot to showcase

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