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*DSFL S42 All Rookie Team (Offense) - lemonoppy - 07-07-2023
Welcome to the DSFL Trade Deadline all-rookie team, offense edition!
We’re nearly done the season, with 4 weeks left to go, I think it’s a fun and appropriate time to make an all-rookie squad!
I was thinking of following the Pro Bowl representative cart but some of the positions had not enough players and I want to skip ST returners, so I took some liberty.
This is completely subjective and if you have any changes you'd like to make, please let me know!
QB: Maximus Boudreaux (NOR)
OL: Kelijah Verwae (KCC)
RB: Kyle Bessey (TIJ), Bertie Mannering-Phipps (BBB)
WR: Tyler Hunt (NOR), Thomas Sutha (MIN), Alex Sanchez (BBB)
TE: Ignatious Cleetington (TIJ)
Team Counts:
QB: Maximus Boudreaux (Norfolk Seawolves)
Starting with the offense and its general, we have the quarterback. We have four QBs in this class but 1 has no TPE, the other is earning at a mid-level clip, leaving us with Maximus Boudreaux of Norfolk and Jay Cue III in Portland. At a first glance, we’d expect Jay Cue to outperform Boudreaux, sporting a 60 TPE difference, but the Norfolk squad has better talent at both WR1 and WR2, with rookie Tyler Hunt nicely fitting in beside last year’s top WR talent in Stetson David.
Maximus Boudreaux: 206/360 (57.2%), 2808 yards, 18 TD, 13 INT, 83.9 Rating
Jay Cue III: 220/375 (58.7%), 2277 yards, 12 TD, 12 INT, 73.6 Rating
Jay Cue has been asked to do more to take his team over the hump but the man with the conference leading 7-3 Seawolves shows that he has something special. Getting his team to comfortable leads and being able to hand the ball off to ice the game is no mean feat for a rookie quarterback and takes the first spot.
OL: Kelijah Verwae (Kansas City Coyotes)
We have a single active OL player in this draft so this was a no brainer. Kelijah Verwae of the Kansas City Coyotes will join some bots on this all-rookie team. This is not to say that Verwae is not a top talent, currently tied for fourth in the league with 39 pancakes and only 2 sacks allowed, Verwae is showing their talent and the reason they went to Big Strong Men Junior College. Verwae needs a bit more time to practice their technique but will be formidable in the future to shore up the line, most likely at a guard position.
RB: Kyle Bessey (Tijuana Luchadores), Bertie Mannering-Phipps (Bondi Beach Buccaneers)
The running back position was sparsely populated until after the draft, where teams were able to find some waiver talent. We have a few contenders for our two RB positions on the all-rookie team, Bertie Mannering-Phipps (BBB), Kyle Bessey (TIJ), Oskar Clark (NOR).
Bertie Mannering-Phipps (9 Games): 205 Attempts, 828 Yards, 4 AVG, 7 TD, 101 REC Yards, 1 REC TD
Kyle Bessey (10 Games): 167 Attempts, 791 Yards, 4.7 AVG, 8 TD, 85 REC Yards, 1 REC TD
Oskar Clark (6 Games): 109 Attempts, 446 Yards, 4.4 AVG, 3 TD, 46 REC Yards, 0 REC TD
BMP is the clear leader from a volume perspective but that does not truly show if he is the lead back for the season. Starting out white hot with Bondi Bay after being claimed on waivers, he’s started to slow down as teams learn to stack the box and give help to the corner covering Stevenson. While Mannering-Phipps is elusive in space, he doesn’t quite have the vision and strength to explode through the, admittedly few, holes that the Buccaneers are able to create this season.
Oskar Clark joined the league late and while he has a great deal of potential, and even if we prorate his contributions, he doesn’t quite have the splash of the other two players. Norfolk is able to comfortably rely on Clark to help in short yardage situations but he unfortunately is playing second fiddle to a lights out receiving corps and would be the third back of this rookie class.
The RB1 for the all-rookie team is Kyle Bessey out of USC. Bessey exploded onto everyone’s radar on a stellar Tijuana team in week 3, seemingly unstoppable with 188 yards on 30 attempts and a pair of touchdowns. Bessey is a true home run threat when he’s given any amount of daylight. Not quite a receiving threat, he shows sure hands and doesn’t drop many balls. Bessey has joined Tijuana in a downswing as the Luchadores have dropped 2 of their last 3 but Bessey should be a constant scouting threat as the playoffs approach.
WR: Tyler Hunt (Norfolk Seawolves), Thomas Sutha (Minnesota Grey Ducks), Alex Sanchez (Bondi Bay Buccaneers)
At wide receiver, we have five players competing for three spots, and a tight race too. While some DSFL viewers may point to players like Anakin Skywalker who finds himself with the rare and valuable talent of seemingly always being open in red-zone situations, based on volume stats it’s hard to include young master Skywalker, yet. I’m sure that he’ll make a splash as he works in the off-season to work on being more sure-handed.
Tyler Hunt (NOR): 10 Games, 53 REC, 933 Yards, 17.6 AVG, 6 TD, 8 Drops, 2 Fumbles
Logan Runswell (DAL): 8 Games, 71 REC, 793 Yards, 11.2 AVG, 5 TD, 10 Drops, 6 Fumbles
Thomas Sutha (MIN): 6 Games, 34 REC, 666 Yards, 19.6 AVG, 5 TD, 3 Drops, 0 Fumbles
Alex Sanchez (BBB): 6 Games, 35 REC, 656 Yards, 18.7 AVG, 3 TD, 4 Drops, 0 Fumbles
La’Fluke Paris-Johnson (DAL): 9 Games, 54 REC, 631 Yards, 11.7 AVG, 2 TD, 7 Drops, 3 Fumbles
At WR we have a players who have played a differing amount of games, and a pair of players in Sutha and Sanchez who look very similar.
Prorating the games, Runswell shoots to the top at 8.88 receptions a game, with the others hovering in the mid to high 5s, clearly his team trusts in him and sees his potential, feeding him the ball. Runswell, however, has a problem with drops and fumbles, while drops are something that can be worked on, the real problem is that Runswell does not take enough care of the ball, fumbling nearly once a game and has double the chance of fumbling compared to the other receivers. Logan Runswell also falls behind in being able to find the endzone and breaking off large yardage plays, finding most of his work through volume.
Tyler Hunt is currently fifth of all receivers in receiving yardage, just short of the 1000 mark, and with stellar average yards per catch as well. It’s hard to not include Tyler Hunt in the all-rookie team, it would take some Olympic gymnastics to not include a wideout who contributed from day one, shouldering a sizable workload nearly comparable to the veterans ahead of him.
La’Fluke Paris-Johnson joins Runswell in the receiver finalist selection, these two rookies have taken on the entirety of the receiving work for the Birddogs, Bread Bowl having seemingly been sidelined for the new talent. Paris-Johnson is a similar player statwise to Runswell, with the passing game focusing on heavy short-yardage attempts. Paris-Johnson often finds himself in drop and fumble trouble over the middle of the field, and unfortunately has the lowest TDs over the season, per game, and per reception. Look forward to Paris-Johnson opening up their vision and surer hands in the following DSFL season and the Birddogs will have a formidable receiving corps.
Thomas Sutha and Alex Sanchez have a very similar stat-line after week 10, both playing 6 games at wideout, 10 yards separate the two, although Sutha has found the endzone twice more. Both of these receivers, given enough time look to be able to challenge Tyler Hunt for the top of the class, but given their lack of volume, they don’t have enough to take his spot. While Sutha fights for a playoff spot and Sanchez looks to gain experience on an underperforming Buccaneers team, look to them to find explosive plays and break off long catches if a corner misses a press or gives them too much space.
TE: Ignatious Cleetington (Tijuana Luchadores)
Any DSFL viewer can tell you that there are two stand-out tight ends in this class, Dylan Duma (BBB) and Ignatious Cleetington (TIJ). Both play at the same position, but their team uses them in very different ways. Duma excels at blocking, finding 24 pancakes this year compared to the 15 of Cleetington, who is called to find his way upfield, finding the soft spot in zone coverage.
Dylan Duma (BBB): 51 REC, 426 Yards, 2 TD, 24 Pancakes, 2 Sacks Allowed
Ignatious Cleetington (TIJ): 37 REC, 440 Yards, 2 TD, 15 Pancakes, 0 Sacks Allowed
Duma is an integral part of the Bondi Beach Buccaneers, donning the captain role in their first season, and the team has put an enormous amount of blocking responsibility on their shoulders. Always good for 5 catches and 40 yards, Duma is a stalwart member of the Buccaneer team.
Cleetington has been put in a much more advantageous situation, on what looked like an unbeatable Tijuana squad, Cleetington is encouraged to find his spots and has managed to find yardage nearly equal to some of the wide receivers. Cleetington and Duma will be an interesting case to watch in the ISFL as hopefully their teams’ paths converge and we can see what they are capable of.
RE: DSFL S42 All Rookie Team (Offense) - ZootTX - 07-08-2023
He picked me so this is good media!