Potential Franchise Player - Possible Perennial All-Pro, and a guaranteed high First Round Pick.
Impact Player - Player who can change the course of a game and a consistent performer. Multiple Pro-Bowl possibilities and top ten selection
Quality Player - Someone who consistently gives good performances. Occasional Pro-Bowl appearances.
First Team Prospect - Player who has ability to make plays from the get go and start early into his rookie season.
Potential Starter - Usually a good athlete who must learn to be a football player or someone who is an “overachiever”. Quality early-to- mid round prospect with good long term potential
"Fence Prospect"- Player on the fence that has the skills and abilities but may need some time and patience.
Practice Squad - Late round or UDFA player who will develop and have his talents on the practice squad. Can find his way onto a roster as a special teamer.
Free Agent - Player who will make a 60 or 80 man roster.
Reading the stats
While it's difficult not to be redundant with scouting reports, we tried to cut down the wordiness when giving statistics. Here is how to read the stats line for the different positions.
Rushing Attempts/Rushing Yards/Yards per Carry/Touchdowns
Receiving:
Passes Caught/Receiving Yards/Touchdowns
Defensive Stats:
Tackles/Tackles for Loss/Sacks
Defensive Backs:
Tackles/TFL/Sacks/Interception/Passes Broken up (unless otherwise stated)
HEIGHT, WEIGHT & FORTY TIMES
Over the course of the past several months much is said and written about the computer numbers of prospects in the draft. You'll see several differences in these numbers from different sources. We try and be as accurate as possible and give these numbers based on the playing height, weight and speed during each players last collegiate season, not some pumped up artificial number.
There is forty speed and playing speed, playing weight and workout weight. The weeks and months leading to the draft is filled with prospects working hard to specifically add bulk, become stronger or get their forty time down. In reality many of these prospects cannot maintain this weight during the grind of a long season or do not play to the listed stopwatch speed; running backs don't run in a straight-line (which is how the forty yard dash is recorded), the bodies of both offensive and defensive linemen break down and cannot maintain the added bulk or, if they do, they will lose a good amount of quickness and speed.
Where pertinent in the players bio we spoke of either how they performed in recent individual or combine workouts to give you an idea of what direction they are headed.
Four-year starter who led Oregon in rushing in each of those seasons. Earned Second Team All-Pac-12 honors and rushed 244 times for 1,475 yards and 16 touchdowns in 2017. Named Honorable Mention All-Pac-12 and carried 168 times for 945 yards and nine TDs while catching 23 passes for 144 yards and one score as a junior. Led the Pac-12 in rushing touchdowns in 2014 and 2015. Earned First Team All-Pac-12 honors and rushed for 1,836 yards and 17 touchdowns on 283 carries while making 26 catches for 348 yards and two TDs as a sophomore. Named Second Team All-Pac-12 and earned Offensive Freshman of the Year honors in 2014 after rushing 252 times for 1,365 yards and 18 touchdowns.
Pos:
Underrated ball carrier best between the tackles and running downhill. Patient, waits for blocks to develop and keeps his feet moving. Sized well, plays big football and picks up a lot of yardage off initial contact. Rarely brought down by a single defender, works runs and falls forward when tackled. Patient and shows good quickness in small spaces and burst through the hole.
Neg:
Lacks the speed and agility to turn the perimeter. Not a nifty or nimble ball carrier who creates yardage or makes defenders miss. Average receiver out of the backfield.
Analysis:
Though Freeman has limitations, he’s very good for what he is -- a strong downhill ball carrier with the ability to pick up difficult yardage. Though not a back for everyone, he offers starting potential in the right system.