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*Revisiting the S4 Draft - Beaver - 02-18-2018

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This will be the first in a series of media articles reflecting on what will surely go down as a historic draft. We're currently only 2 seasons removed but already we've seen some separation among the draftees and it will be fun to track their progression going forward.

Obviously, this is in jest because Season 4 was a truly horrible draft. I believe that this was because it was the first offseason that we had a DSFL draft, which led to the prospect pool being diluted. In any case, this shit's bad.

1st Overall - ARI Noah Goodson, LB
TPE: 356
Status: ACTIVE
Current Team: BAL

The coverage linebacker out of NC State had a solid rookie season, recording 94 tackles, 9 sacks, 9 passes defended, and forcing a fumble on his way to a championship*. He settled into his more natural coverage role last season, seeing his tackles and sacks drop to 76 and 3, respectively, while recording 2 interceptions and 4 passes defended.

After the season, the Outlaws sent him to Baltimore with a S7 2nd round pick in exchange for 14th overall and a S7 3rd round pick, as well as Kevin Shattenkirk-level conditions.

2nd Overall - LVL Blackford Oakes, FS
TPE: 375
Status: ACTIVE
Current Team: NOLA

In a draft that saw the Las Vegas Legion pick 5 times in the first round, 2 of those came from trading their S5 1st round pick and $2 million cap space for #2 and #5. While probably not worthwhile in the long run, the Legion got their man Blackford Oakes and watched him take home Defensive Rookie of the Year honors after a season in which he made 72 tackles, forced 2 fumbles, recorded a sack (eek), defended 5 passes, and intercepted 4 more passes - including 1 that was returned for a touchdown.

He's basically a bum now, as his sophomore season saw no statistical improvement: 61 tackles, 4 passes defended, 4 interceptions, and 0s across the rest of the board which is reflected in his recent contract extension. Still, despite missing activity checks and fucking up his updates regularly he's managed to be the top TPE earner from this class somehow.

3rd Overall - COL Haruki Ishigawa, LB
TPE: 340
Status: ACTIVE
Current Team: COL

Another coverage linebacker, Ishigawa joined Oakes and Goodson as rookie standouts in Season 4 as he recorded 99 tackles, forced and recovered a fumble, sacked the quarterback 4 times, and defended 3 passes. Unlike the other two, though, Ishigawa followed it up with a strong sophomore campaign as he had 83 tackles - including 2 for loss, forced a fumble, recorded 7 sacks, and defended 13 (!) passes.

4th Overall - LVL Steven O'Sullivan, TE
TPE: 220
Status: ON A ROSTER
Current Team: OCO

Season 4's Offensive Rookie of the Year was also the first offensive player off the board in the draft. O'Sullivan never played a snap for the Legion and recorded 80 receptions for 520 yards and 4 touchdowns in Orange County. He is currently inactive but managed to keep a roster spot and a role in the Otters' impressive offense as he had 85 catches for 699 yards and 3 touchdowns last season.

5th Overall - OCO William Sean, WR
TPE: 104
Status: DSFL
Current Team: SA

Initially looking like a promising prospect, Sean hasn't been able to break into the NSFL. He's technically not inactive as he logged in 3 days ago but his last post was in October.

Sean has put together a decent DSFL career, however. Amassing 126 catches for 1680 yards and 9 touchdowns. If he can return to activity he could very well wind up the best offensive player of this draft.

Fun fact, this was the only pick in the 1st round that wasn't traded at least once.

6th Overall - LVL Trey Lonzac, CB
TPE: 106
Status: Free Agent
Current Team: :violin:

As far as I can tell has never played a game in the DSFL or NSFL.

7th Overall - LVL Andres Waiters, DE
TPE: 273
Status: ACTIVE
Current Team: ARI

The 5th and final player from this draft that is currently on an NSFL roster, Waiters finished last season near the top of the leaderboard in tackles for loss with 11. He also had 47 tackles, a fumble forced and recovered, and 8 sacks. It was his first NSFL season after posting back to back 18 sack seasons in the DSFL.

Waiters was traded to Arizona with Wyatt Fulton in exchange for a S5 4th, S6 1st, and S6 3rd.

8th Overall - LVL Shawn Ariel, RB
TPE: 63
Status: DSFL
Current Team: COL / POR

Ariel was sent to the Yeti in the trade that brought Isaac Brown (RIP) to the Legion and looked like a promising running back after posting 982 yards on 223 attempts, smashing the DSFL in YPC in his draft year. After the draft he was assigned to Norfolk's practice squad in Season 4 and then went undrafted in the dispersal draft. He's currently in Portland as a Colorado send-down.

9th Overall - YKW Forfeited (cheater mccheaterboys)
10th Overall - COL Tommy Brown, WR (50 TPE, Free Agent, Inactive)
11th Overall - SJS JR Vance, TE (50 TPE, POR , Inactive)
12th Overall - LVL Den Bavis, LB (55 TPE, TIJ , Inactive)
13th Overall - OCO Zach Muntez, RB (57 TPE, TIJ , Inactive)
14th Overall - PHI Rakim Uchiha, WR (57 TPE, POR , Inactive)
15th Overall - LVL - Pass
16th Overall - YKW Mitchell Stars, QB (57 TPE, POR , Inactive)
17th Overall - SJS Callum Gray, QB (52 TPE, RETIRED)
18th Overall - LVL Brent Lane, K/P (50 TPE, POR , Inactive)

I see you collecting S4 inactives, Portland.

Has there ever been a lighter punishment than forcing Yellowknife to give up this 9th overall pick?

If any of these dudes come back from inactivity it's not a far climb for them to enter Steal of the Draft territory.

So for those of you keeping score at home we've got
300+ TPE: 3 players
200+ TPE: 5 players
100+ TPE: 7 players
Played 1 NSFL game: 5 players
Not currently inactive: 5 players
Didn't update once: 3 players

A depressing exercise would be comparing those numbers to the S5 draftees, who are a season behind. Perhaps even S6.

The end.

*Revisiting the S4 Draft - tbone415 - 02-18-2018

S5 best draft class

*Revisiting the S4 Draft - sapp2013 - 02-18-2018

Quote:8th Overall -  LVL  Shawn Ariel, RB

He's now in Portland as a free agent.

The yeti still have him on our roster, but he is being sent down to the dsfl.

*Revisiting the S4 Draft - Beaver - 02-18-2018

(02-18-2018, 03:23 PM)sapp2013 Wrote:The yeti still have him on our roster, but he is being sent down to the dsfl.
Edited to reflect this.

*Revisiting the S4 Draft - PDXBaller - 02-19-2018

Brown actually has his rights owned by SA.

And yes, we needed to do something big this season to compete because we only had one draft pick. I claimed all the inactives!

*Revisiting the S4 Draft - toivo - 02-19-2018

Would ya look at these scrubs...

Good write up beaver!

*Revisiting the S4 Draft - AdamS - 02-19-2018

Id love to see this done for s3.