3 Cone Drill: The Fantasy Sleeper Stat.
The NFL combine is the meat market of the NFL. Speed, size, and strength are all recorded to find the top prospects of the future. Fans and the media fixate on the best numbers and can be quite critical of poor 40 yard dash results. Instantly a 4.35 running back seems so much more appealing than a player who ran a 4.55.
But is the two tenths of a second the difference between a bust and NFL stardom? Is the 40 yard dash really the end-all be-all of the NFL?
Of course not.
For starters the difference between two tenths of a second is not something one can measure without a stopwatch. The fact that players are running without pads and start in a sprinter’s stance is also not relevant to the next level. Actually, if I’m going to go one step further, how often are these future millionaire athletes going to be running in a dead straight line? NFL running backs rarely have a clear cut straight path to the endzone without making some sort of cut, juke, or spin. Sure once the ball carrier breaks the first wave of defenders his odds increase to take it the distance, but even then he has to worry about ball hawking safeties
2011 Fantasy Draft Strategy Picks 1-3
Arian Foster is the most likely to succeed of these players and is currently seen as the safest pick. Peterson and Johnson
Fantasy Football Strategy: Draft Day Advice
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Fantasy Football Trading Remorse
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