As much as we love football here at Takeaways, we certainly enjoy and appreciate other sports too. Case in point, this week featured the 2023 NBA Draft, where 58 players learned their new professional teams. That got us thinking: what NFL draft lessons can we learn from the NBA draft? Though the sports are different…
The USFL regular season just concluded, and though we don’t really cover that league on this site (at least not yet), we’re going to show it some love right now. Before you ask why I’d give any thought to a spring league, think of such leagues as the minor leagues of football. Veterans and UDFAs…
You’ve probably seen plenty of stories right now about NFL players gambling and subsequently getting suspended. A while back, our first brush with the NFL’s recently implemented player gambling policy came back in 2019, when Cardinals CB Josh Shaw missed 21 games after being suspended for betting on games (a parlay that included a bet…
The draft dust has settled. Free agency has come to a slow crawl. Let’s now shift to players on existing deals. Specifically, we’ll examine QBs because they’re so interesting. Among these players, who has the most on the line this upcoming NFL season? That’s what I’m here to talk about in this post. Many of…
Many publications have already posted their post-draft power rankings. I decided to wait to see if any teams signed more notable free agents after they learned what holes they still needed to fill. Well…pretty much nothing came of that. Sorry. But we’re here now! I won’t have “previous rankings” listed because these are my first…
Now that the draft is behind us (and I’ve graded your favorite team), it’s time to look forward. What better way to do that than to look at the players just selected and try to guess which of them will take home hardware at the next NFL Honors? I’m going to do my best to…
The much awaited 2023 NFL schedule has been released, and fans are already trying to determine whether their teams have a shot to win it all. Vegas has posted win totals for the 32 teams, and websites everywhere are poring over each detail hidden in these schedules. I’m not going to bother with any of…
Every year, hundreds of players who hoped to hear their names called go undrafted. This is not the end of their journey, however. Many of these players will be signed by NFL teams and given a chance to make their rosters; many of them will do just that. There are actually more UDFAs in the…
Now is a good time to take a step back, look at what happened over the weekend, and evaluate how we think each team did in the 2023 NFL Draft. Such analyses may prove silly within months; players drafted highly might struggle, and “project” players who were selected late could prove to be hidden gems….
The 2023 NFL Draft is done! It’s been a really fun weekend, but all good things must come to an end. We saw a record number of trades with 43 over 3 nights, and every team had multiple picks. However, some did better than others, and that’s why we’re here. In this post, I’ll be…