Biomechanical Review – Analyzing Through the Lens of Ongoing Research

2024 Skill Position Draft Reviews Part 7

This final portion of the 2024 skill position draft review will attempt to categorize and group the reviewed players by their career outlook. In total, 40 players were reviewed from the class (41 writeups total, including CJ Stroud’s revisited/ revised profile): 21 WRs, 10 RBs, 6 QBs (would’ve been 7 if analyzing lefties was a current possibility), and 2 TEs. This is in rough proportion to the numbers of players who (based on early impressions) appear likely to have meaningful NFL careers (although Bucky Irving would’ve been included in the RB group if not for time constraints). In other words, based on early profiling, this appears to be a very deep high quality WR class, a relatively shallow RB and TE class, and a quality QB class (with likely 2-4 long term starters).

2024 Skill Position Draft Reviews Part 6

This portion of the skill position draft review presents the last eight players studied from the 2024 draft class. The players in this post (and in part 5) were studied somewhat less than in previous sections, mostly due to lacking much all 22 (and in a few cases due to lack of time). TEs in general were not studied in depth this year, with none of the players outside the two players presented in these writeups appearing to stand out on first impressions (but with Bowers being one of the most studied players in the class). As with the previous parts of the series, the writeups are not ranked or tiered, merely loosely grouped together– the concluding part of this series (part 7) will order and group the players into tiers.

2024 Skill Position Draft Reviews Part 5

With part 5 of this series ballooning out to 14 profiles, it was decided to split these remaining profiles into two separate parts. This part will present the remaining studied RBs from the 2024 class, while part 6 will present the remaining pass catchers (WRs/ TEs). The majority of players in these two posts weren’t studied quite as in depth as those from previous parts, largely due to lacking quality film (and in a few cases due to lacking time). As before, the players in this portion are not ranked or tiered, merely loosely grouped together in somewhat descending order. The last part of this series (now part 7) will rank/ tier all the studied players and take a holistic look at the entire class.

2024 Skill Position Draft Reviews Part 4

This fourth entry in the 2024 skill position draft reviews will present a mix of WRs and RBs in rough descending order of efficiency (per position group). Given the uneven number of WRs and RBs studied, parts 4 and 5 of this series will examine the remaining studied players from both position groups (as well as a couple TEs), while part 6 will group all the players into tiers and give a holistic look at the overall class. These part 4 reviews are therefore not ranked or tiered in this portion, merely loosely grouped together in roughly descending order– some players from this portion will rank above or below players reviewed in parts 2-5 of the overall series.

2024 Skill Position Draft Reviews Part 3: QBs

In 2021, a new method for analyzing QBs was established, wherein areas of full efficiency became the sole guiding factor (you can read the post introducing these methods here). Since then, this method has been successful in the negative– ruling out long term starting success for QBs who failed to show any areas of full thoracic efficiency. However it has also led to false positives, where QBs with one or more areas of full thoracic efficiency were thereby predicted to find long term starting success and failed to do so.

2024 Skill Position Draft Reviews Part 2

This first set of post draft reviews will examine the second tier of WRs, roughly in the order they were ranked pre-draft. Ricky Pearsall and Ja’Lynn Polk, being unexpected risers (at least to these methods) will be profiled in the next set of WR reviews. Tier ranks will be established in the final postings after all the reviews have been completed and uploaded. So while the below reviews are posted in rough descending order of efficiency, final tiers/ ranks are yet to come

2024 Skill Position Draft Reviews: the Top 5

The 2024 NFL draft appears to contain an unusual number of top tier skill position players. This first review of the 2024 draft class will therefore examine this top tier, the very highest end QBs and WRs. Beginning with two quarterbacks who both show true star potential

2023 Skill Position Updates

Although methods in these areas have improved substantially over the past few years, lateral anterior and (to a lesser extent) medial posterior orientations have previously suffered from less reliable analytical methods. Fortunately, this summer has seen methodological breakthroughs in lateral anterior areas and medial posterior lumbar areas. As a result (and with higher quality NFL all 22 preseason film now available) the following profiles have been updated/ corrected

2023 Skill Position Draft Review: Part 3

This concluding portion of the 2023 skill position draft review (unfortunately much shorter then planned due to time constraints) focuses on Dalton Kincaid and the three top ranked QBs who had yet to be examined

2023 Skill Position Draft Review Part 2

The following part 2 of this series examines the remaining studied WRs and RBs from the 2023 draft. In general, players in this section were examined less than those in part 1. In order to build so many profiles, prioritization has to be given to players that provide the most promising early impressions. And when players show seemingly disqualifying traits early in the process (such as Jalin Hyatt and Chase Brown who both show underdeveloped/ stunted posterior areas) those profiles get shunted off to the side and given less time for profile building and testing (or in the cases of Hyatt and Brown, don’t get revisited at all). Which doesn’t necessarily suggest they will bust. Simply that the only way to build full profiles for promising but obscure players like Puka Nacua is to prioritize study by biomechanical efficiency (based on early impressions) rather than consensus projections.