Prospects to Pros: Difficult prospects to project in the 2023 NFL Draft
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🗓️ 5 April 2023
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What prospects in the 2023 NFL Draft have been the most difficult to evaluate? PFF’s Mike Renner joins Andy Staples and Dane Brugler to talk about the players they have had a hard time projecting. They discuss the tape, testing, age, injury, change of position and more factors that all come into play.
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| 0:48.3 | Welcome to prospects to pros as we barrel toward the NFL draft, only about three weeks to go. |
| 0:54.3 | Dane Bruegeler is back, and we're joined by the devastatingly handsome Mike Brenner of |
| 0:59.3 | Pro Football Focus. |
| 1:00.9 | And we have a very interesting topic this week, because this is one that just drives guys |
| 1:06.6 | like Dane and Mike crazy. |
| 1:08.7 | It's the people who are just tough evals. Either their production |
| 1:14.1 | doesn't match their traits, their traits don't match their production, or they're just a |
| 1:18.9 | straight up tweener where for size or speed reasons or whatever, they don't fit some obvious |
| 1:25.5 | position in the NFL. So guys, Dana, you've been working through The Beast. |
| 1:31.0 | You've got every name in this draft floating in your head. |
| 1:35.3 | Mike, you got to do the same thing at PFF. |
| 1:38.4 | Who are some of the guys that every time you pull up their tape? |
| 1:42.8 | You're like, huh, what do I do with this one? |
| 1:47.0 | Mike, why don't you kick it off with a guy that really stands out for you? |
| 1:53.3 | To me, I'm going to just like throw a few names out here because to me, the wide receiver class is one where there are a few guys that I cannot make heads or tails of. |
| 2:03.1 | And one, I'll start right at the tops, Quinn Johnson. |
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