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A Fan's Guide To Understanding The NFL Draft: Strategies, Tactics, And Case Studies For Building A Professional Football Team
A must read for football fans... Why do GMs do stupid things? What's a circus elephant, anyway? Why don't you want your favorite NFL team to draft an inside linebacker in the first round? Draft Analyst Bruce Irons draws on years of research and draft coverage to answer these questions and more. A Fan's Guide To Understanding The NFL Draft explains why the NFL draft is so important to teams... and why it's so difficult, diving into the challenges teams face and analyzing case studies to see how teams address them to give you a deeper understanding of the draft and help you appreciate football - and your team - even more!
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104 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 4, 2020
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May 24, 2024
The author made a very basic but handy guide for the basic fan who has very little knowledge of how the NFL Draft works. If you have followed the league for any length of time, most of this information is already well known. He does an adequate job of keeping it simple, informative and entertaining. However, because of the intentional simplicity, if you are familiar with the NFL Draft, this book might be a little too basic.
This is also a case of missed opportunity. He could have made this more relatable by telling more stories about players drafted previously. There are a lot of stories and anecdotes out there that he could have pulled from, but deliberately chose to go in a different direction. That's fine, but for a 102 page narrative, it could have used a little bit more meat to accentuate his points.
Plus, there are a couple of things he misses. I'm not sure if this is because he didn't know the information or if it was by design. He talks about the importance of the Senior Bowl and Combine in the draft process, but he fails to even mention other All-Star Games like the Tropical Bowl, East-West Shrine Bowl and the Hula Bowl. These bowl games are just as important as the Senior Bowl to teams not named the Green Bay Packers. I understand that he emphsized the Senior Bowl because the Packers do, but there are a lot of talented players who get selected at these other bowl games and no mention of them. Same with Pro Days. The Pro Day workouts are vitally important to players in the later rounds who don't get Combine invites, and he barely covered it.
Lastly, I know there tends to be a huge emphasis on the first three rounds of the draft, essentially Days 1 (Round 1 only) and 2 (Rounds 2 and 3). Day 3 is treated like an afterthought. But if you were one of those competing for a position to get drafted, Day 3 is not an afterthought. Also - no mention about how players acquire agents, no mention about this thing called the UDFA (undrafted free agent) and the minicamp invites. Neglecting such important information doesn't do the book any justice, but an updated version with the added information should take care of that problem.
All in all, if you are new to the NFL Draft, this is a good starting point, as long as you realize it is a starting point. Read the book. Make your Mock Drafts next year, and have some fun with this.
This is also a case of missed opportunity. He could have made this more relatable by telling more stories about players drafted previously. There are a lot of stories and anecdotes out there that he could have pulled from, but deliberately chose to go in a different direction. That's fine, but for a 102 page narrative, it could have used a little bit more meat to accentuate his points.
Plus, there are a couple of things he misses. I'm not sure if this is because he didn't know the information or if it was by design. He talks about the importance of the Senior Bowl and Combine in the draft process, but he fails to even mention other All-Star Games like the Tropical Bowl, East-West Shrine Bowl and the Hula Bowl. These bowl games are just as important as the Senior Bowl to teams not named the Green Bay Packers. I understand that he emphsized the Senior Bowl because the Packers do, but there are a lot of talented players who get selected at these other bowl games and no mention of them. Same with Pro Days. The Pro Day workouts are vitally important to players in the later rounds who don't get Combine invites, and he barely covered it.
Lastly, I know there tends to be a huge emphasis on the first three rounds of the draft, essentially Days 1 (Round 1 only) and 2 (Rounds 2 and 3). Day 3 is treated like an afterthought. But if you were one of those competing for a position to get drafted, Day 3 is not an afterthought. Also - no mention about how players acquire agents, no mention about this thing called the UDFA (undrafted free agent) and the minicamp invites. Neglecting such important information doesn't do the book any justice, but an updated version with the added information should take care of that problem.
All in all, if you are new to the NFL Draft, this is a good starting point, as long as you realize it is a starting point. Read the book. Make your Mock Drafts next year, and have some fun with this.
May 21, 2021
This was a quick, fun book to read. I read this book not because I don't know about the NFL draft, but rather to gain another insight to the art of the NFL draft. The author did a great job of detailing what goes on at an NFL draft. He pulls back the curtain to the NFL process and provides great feedback to what teams must do to plan and execute the NFL draft. I have a feeing the author is a Green Bay Packers fan, but his writing was not biased to his team in the slightest.
This is a wonderful book to read!
This is a wonderful book to read!
April 29, 2021
A quick read that was generally too low level to teach much about the draft if you have already been following the league and the draft. Still some interesting insights that make it worth a quick read on Kindle Unlimited.
The best advice might be to look up an online mock draft simulator and try your hand at it from time to time.
The best advice might be to look up an online mock draft simulator and try your hand at it from time to time.
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