02-27-2020, 06:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-28-2020, 01:39 AM by sakrosankt.)
In this post I will compare the S21 DSFL draft class of Wide Receivers to the upcoming S22 class and try to find some correlations between prospects for the upcoming draft. In this analysis, I will also rank the current Wide Receivers for the upcoming NSFL draft and will make some predictions and a ranking of what to expect of the S22 class in the new DSFL season.
S21 Wide Receivers
At first let’s take a look at the last DSFL draft. There were 14 Wide Receivers in the draft. I took a look at the respective TPE when the players were drafted. Therefore I took the first player update after the DSFL draft, as the activity can be estimated with the claimed TPE’s in those threads. There may be other factors for the respective draft positions as activity in the discord or common media or graphics contributors, but claimed TPE usually play a big role in draft position, I guess.
#14 Red Arrow (81 TPE):
Archetype: Route Runner
(MAX: 95) Agility: 70
(MAX: 95) Speed: 76
(MAX: 90) Hands: 70
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 70
#19 Chris Kross (153 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 100) Speed: 75
(MAX: 90) Hands: 70
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 65
#21 Justice Green (62 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 100) Speed: 81
(MAX: 90) Hands: 55
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 60
#22 Alyx Sabor (87 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 70
(MAX: 100) Speed: 80
(MAX: 90) Hands: 64
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 60
#30 Jerome Davies (130 TPE)
Archetype: Route Runner
(MAX: 95) Agility: 70
(MAX: 95) Speed: 70
(MAX: 90) Hands: 71
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 62
#47 Rusty Nails (57 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 70
(MAX: 100) Speed: 73
(MAX: 90) Hands: 69
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 69
#52 Smolder Bravestone (62 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 70
(MAX: 100) Speed: 73
(MAX: 90) Hands: 65
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 60
#53 Remon Kurisito (94 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 100) Speed: 84
(MAX: 90) Hands: 55
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 60
#63 Raheem Okusi (73 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 100) Speed: 80
(MAX: 90) Hands: 55
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 60
#65 Grand Salami (73 TPE)
Archetype: Route Runner
(MAX: 95) Agility: 71
(MAX: 95) Speed: 74
(MAX: 90) Hands: 65
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 65
#90 Everett Woodward (50 TPE)
Archetype: Red Zone Threat
(MAX: 90) Agility: 55
(MAX: 90) Speed: 70
(MAX: 100) Hands: 70
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 70
#91 Keval Shah (57 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 100) Speed: 74
(MAX: 90) Hands: 68
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 65
#93 Jade Bridges (58 TPE)
Archetype: Red Zone Threat
(MAX: 90) Agility: 59
(MAX: 90) Speed: 72
(MAX: 100) Hands: 70
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 65
#101 Scotty McGuy (57 TPE)
Archetype: Possession Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 90) Speed: 68
(MAX: 100) Hands: 75
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 65
I tried to take the initial TPE distribution by each player, but for some I didn’t find the initial settings on the update page and I didn’t want to dive deeper into TPE distribution analysis. I am pretty sure I could have found this data somewhere, but I didn’t see the sense in digging any further.
Out of the 14 prospects, 8 chose the archetype Speed Receiver. Chrs Kross decided to switch archetype from Possession Receiver to Speed Receiver pretty much at the beginning of his career and did so even before the draft started. 3 Route Runner were used, 2 Red Zone Threats and 1 Possession Receiver was left, after the mentioned switch.
As we see in this list, the player with the most TPE at draft day was not the one who was picked first off the board. I wasn’t in the league at that time and didn’t check the times of the last draft, but so much Chrs Kross gained over 70 TPE more but was picked 5 spots after Red Arrow seems an interesting decision. More so if you take a look at the rest of the prospects. There were 4 receivers with more TPE at the time of the draft. The archetype also couldn’t be the deciding point, as there was already another receiver with the same type and way more TPE in Jerome Davis.
Another surprise was Justice Green at #21 and third receiver off the board. He gathered 62 TPE at the time of the draft which seems low in comparison to the other players. Again, I am new to the league and did not experience one single draft, so I can’t judge why a player went at the position he was selected. Because another weird fact seems to be the fall of Remon Kurisito way down to pick #53 with 94 gathered TPE. In the initial TPE distribution he also made similar decisions as Justice Green and spent almost all in speed.
Now let’s take a look at the production of the rookies in the past DSFL season and how they progressed over time.
Every player in the list is structured the same way with the same stats:
team – name – games – receptions – receiving yards – average – TDs
current stats: agility – speed – hands – endurance – TPE – active
- Red Arrow – 14 – 35 – 421 – 12 – 1
70 – 90 – 72 – 70 – 232 – yes
- Chris Kross – 14 – 43 – 622 – 14.5 – 2
65 – 90 – 75 – 60 – 226 (edit: 274) – yes
- Justice Green – 14 – 27 – 335 – 12.4 – 1
65 – 81 – 55 – 60 – 62 – no
- Alyx Sabor – 14 – 39 – 470 – 12.1
70 – 84 – 70 – 60 – 134 – yes
- Jerome Davis – 14 – 42 – 541 – 12.9 – 4
70 – 89 – 75 – 62 – 242 – yes
- Rusty Nails – 14 – 51 – 641 – 12.6 – 0
70 – 73 – 69 – 69 – 57 – no
- Smolder Bravestone – 14 – 15 – 220 – 14.7 – 0
70 – 80 – 65 – 60 – 97 – no
- Remon Kurisito – 14 – 45 – 583 – 13 – 4
65 – 94 – 55 – 60 – 224 – yes
- Raheem Okusi – 14 – 37 – 474 – 12.8 – 3
65 – 83 – 70 – 60 – 114 – yes
- Grand Salami – 14 – 14 – 143 – 10.2 – 0
71 – 70 – 65 – 68 – 71 – no
- Everett Woodward – 10 – 22 – 277 – 12.6 – 4
this player has no update thread, at least I didn’t find one
- Keval Shah – 14 – 1 – 6 – 6 – 0
65 – 74 – 68 – 65 – 57 – no
- Jade Bridges – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 (no entry found)
59 – 72 – 70 – 65 – 58 – no
- Scotty McGuy – 14 – 4 – 46 – 11.5 – 0
65 – 68 – 75 – 65 – 57 – no
Those are the career stats for the S21 rookies in the DSFL. From 14 prospects entering the draft are 6 still active. Smolder Bravestone regularly checked until beginning of February and also made updates in the players update thread, but seems to be currently inactive. The other 7 players did at maximum a second update for their player, but are inactive since then. Everett Woodward doesn’t have an update page.
Inactiveness doesn’t mean that a player is not successful in the DSFL, as it seems. The player without an update page, Everett Woodward has the most touchdowns out of the rookies with 4. What may have helped him achieving that, is that his archetype is Red Zone Threat. But looking at the other Red Zone Threat in the class, Jade Bridges, he has not even an entry in the receiving list of last season. So he may have not seen the field the whole season, or at least the ball never got into his hands.
But there are another two players with getting 4 Touchdowns in Jerome Davis and Remon Kurisito. Those two speed receivers are very interesting prospects. At one hand we have Davis, which gathered the most TPE of all Wide Receiver rookies and on the other hand there is the speedster of the class in Kurisito.
The most receiving yards has Rusty Nails with 641. Interestingly this prospect is one of those with only one update entry after the initial one. But he was a factor in the game of the Luchadores. The second most yards got Chris Kross, one of the two productive Coyotes rookie receivers. Over the span of their rookie season, 4 prospects (Red Arrow, Chris Kross, Jerome Davis, Remon Kurisito) gained more than 200 TPE with all of them being very close together. They are only separated by 18 TPE (224 – 242). The only two other prospects reaching over 100 points are the other 2 still active ones (Alyx Sabor, Raheem Okusi).
When comparing the TPE at draft day with the ones gathered, there is a quite obvious correlation from TPE at draft process and after the first season. Every prospect with at least over 100 TPE now had at least over 70 TPE when the draft took place. In fact, there are just two receivers with over 60 TPE in Justice Green (62) and Grand Salami (73) at draft day, which are inactive now.
Taking a look at on what the TPE were mostly spent, speed is the main factor for all prospects. The best receivers in the class managed to increase this stat to around 90 or above. The second attribute may be hands, but that is not really considered to be updated.
Before we take a look at the Wide Receiver prospects for the upcoming DSFL draft, let’s rank the active wideout prospects for the NSFL draft:
1. Chris Kross: His production at DSFL level was very good. He improved into a speedy guy with good hands and has still enough room to improve further.
Edit: seems like I overlooked some banked TPE for this guy, which pulls him even more ahead and cements him at the Nr 1 spot amongst Wide Receivers. At least if the data for the others is correct
2. Jerome Davis: The Grey Ducks wideout showed in the DSFL that you shouldn’t count him out.
The decision to be second in the list was quite hard, in the end the better stats for Kross made the difference.
3. Remon Kurisito: This guy is a speedster and will show his worth at the next level. He will have to improve his catching ability, but his speed is unchallenged in his class.
4. Red Arrow: Ranking him at the fourth position indicates that this class is super narrow. Arrow did, by far, not underperform or disappoint in the DSFL, but in the end the lack of production to the other three prospects made him go at 4.
5. Alyx Sabor: The first 4 prospects are, as already mentioned almost at one level, then Sabor comes on a lower stage. His production in his rookie season was good, but he will still need to improve overall to attack the top 4.
6. Raheem Okusi: Okusi still has room to improve on various aspects of his game, similar to Sabor.
S22 Wide Receivers
The S22 Wide Receiver class currently consists of 27 players. At first I want to split this group. Therefore I checked every prospect if he already created an update thread. 14 out of the 27 did so, and I will concentrate mostly on those ones, as already concluded above, players with update threads have a far better chance to improve into valuable prospects at the next level. I guess this won’t make you wonder (but for sure there are exceptions to the rule as seen with Woodward).
Let’s take a look at the players respective update sites and how many TPE they already gathered and documented:
Player name (user): TPE – archetype – agility – speed – hands - endurance
Eddie Jeeta (QuirkyTurtle): 101 TPE – Route Runner – 70 – 70 – 70 - 65
Kevin Koh (Coterminity): 101 TPE – Route Runner – 70 – 70 – 70 - 70
William Lim (yonggarius): 96 TPE – Possession Receiver – 60 – 71 – 75 - 65
William Alexander (morsy): 88 TPE – Red Zone Threat – 60 – 70 – 70 - 65
Susan Cash Jr (2Burkeulosis): 76 TPE – Possession Receiver – 60 – 70 – 70 - 70
Michael Whiteblock (sakrosankt): 66 TPE - Possession Receiver – 65 – 70 - 72 - 70
Friedrich Vequain (Sutj): 61 TPE – Speed Receiver – 70 – 75 – 62 - 60
Blake Alexander (AlexF): 57 TPE – Possession Receiver – 70 – 70 – 70 - 70
Cal Cutta (CJPJD): 57 TPE – Route Runner – 70 – 74 – 70 - 60
Garfiled Despacito Jr (Gwdjohnson): 57 TPE – Speed Receiver – 70 – 77 – 60 - 60
Mike Lee (youngcricket): 57 TPE – Speed Receiver – 65 – 80 – 55 - 60
Tan Johnson (tan5o4): 57 TPE – Possession Receiver – 70 – 70 – 70 - 70
Thomas Passmann (StamkosFan): 57 TPE – Speed Receiver – 65 – 80 – 55 - 60
Ronan Briscoe (ronanb23): 55 TPE – Route Runner – 70 – 75 – 65 - 60
An interesting point we can see, when looking over the S22 prospects with an update thread, is, that the distribution of archetypes is completely different to the previous class. There are just 4 Speed Receivers, the same number as Route Runners. The archetype that was chosen most is Possession Receiver (5) and just 1 Red Zone Threat. Interesting is, why the active players chose their respective archetype. For the still active S21 receivers, we only had Speed Receiver and Route Runner. We will see how the respective careers will pan out for the Possession Receivers and hopefully, the Red Zone Threat stays active, as it is the only one currently active representative of that archetype for the last two classes.
In this class there are currently very much active players, which will be due to the fact that this class is just super huge. I hope this level of activity will continue. By comparing the activity of the S22 prospects to the S21 ones, we can assume that 4 – 5 players are currently ahead of the others in order of prospect valuation. Of course, Eddie Jeeta and Kevin Koh will battle for the top of this class, but we shouldn’t count out neither of the two Williams (Lim and Alexander) nor Susan Cash Jr. But with the activity both top earners in TPE show in the forum and discord, it will be very hard to rise to the top comes draft day.
Mike Lee and Thomas Passmann seem to take a similar approach than Remon Kurisito did last year and try to be as fast as possible. Kurisito was only the eighth receiver off the board last year, although he had a good amount of TPE and knew how to make him faster quickly. This also was to see in his rookie season. It will be interesting if this approach will be successful ones again this year and therefore the draft value will increase for those prospects. The lack of information on active possession receivers makes it difficult to evaluate the draft stock for the current prospects. But I guess activity will be more valued than archetype or already gathered TPE, as only an active player is able to improve further.
Due to the DSFL expansion, it is very difficult to predict any picks for Wide Receiver. If we take a look at the last draft, the first receiver went of the board at #14, followed by #19, #21 and #22. This draft has many good and active players on every position. I think, receivers will again be not on top of the priority list in this draft and expect the first ones to come off the board at the middle to end of the second round. And I am curious how the rookie wideouts will impact the upcoming DSFL season.
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S21 Wide Receivers
At first let’s take a look at the last DSFL draft. There were 14 Wide Receivers in the draft. I took a look at the respective TPE when the players were drafted. Therefore I took the first player update after the DSFL draft, as the activity can be estimated with the claimed TPE’s in those threads. There may be other factors for the respective draft positions as activity in the discord or common media or graphics contributors, but claimed TPE usually play a big role in draft position, I guess.
#14 Red Arrow (81 TPE):
Archetype: Route Runner
(MAX: 95) Agility: 70
(MAX: 95) Speed: 76
(MAX: 90) Hands: 70
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 70
#19 Chris Kross (153 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 100) Speed: 75
(MAX: 90) Hands: 70
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 65
#21 Justice Green (62 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 100) Speed: 81
(MAX: 90) Hands: 55
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 60
#22 Alyx Sabor (87 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 70
(MAX: 100) Speed: 80
(MAX: 90) Hands: 64
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 60
#30 Jerome Davies (130 TPE)
Archetype: Route Runner
(MAX: 95) Agility: 70
(MAX: 95) Speed: 70
(MAX: 90) Hands: 71
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 62
#47 Rusty Nails (57 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 70
(MAX: 100) Speed: 73
(MAX: 90) Hands: 69
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 69
#52 Smolder Bravestone (62 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 70
(MAX: 100) Speed: 73
(MAX: 90) Hands: 65
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 60
#53 Remon Kurisito (94 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 100) Speed: 84
(MAX: 90) Hands: 55
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 60
#63 Raheem Okusi (73 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 100) Speed: 80
(MAX: 90) Hands: 55
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 60
#65 Grand Salami (73 TPE)
Archetype: Route Runner
(MAX: 95) Agility: 71
(MAX: 95) Speed: 74
(MAX: 90) Hands: 65
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 65
#90 Everett Woodward (50 TPE)
Archetype: Red Zone Threat
(MAX: 90) Agility: 55
(MAX: 90) Speed: 70
(MAX: 100) Hands: 70
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 70
#91 Keval Shah (57 TPE)
Archetype: Speed Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 100) Speed: 74
(MAX: 90) Hands: 68
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 65
#93 Jade Bridges (58 TPE)
Archetype: Red Zone Threat
(MAX: 90) Agility: 59
(MAX: 90) Speed: 72
(MAX: 100) Hands: 70
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 65
#101 Scotty McGuy (57 TPE)
Archetype: Possession Receiver
(MAX: 90) Agility: 65
(MAX: 90) Speed: 68
(MAX: 100) Hands: 75
(MAX: 100) Endurance: 65
I tried to take the initial TPE distribution by each player, but for some I didn’t find the initial settings on the update page and I didn’t want to dive deeper into TPE distribution analysis. I am pretty sure I could have found this data somewhere, but I didn’t see the sense in digging any further.
Out of the 14 prospects, 8 chose the archetype Speed Receiver. Chrs Kross decided to switch archetype from Possession Receiver to Speed Receiver pretty much at the beginning of his career and did so even before the draft started. 3 Route Runner were used, 2 Red Zone Threats and 1 Possession Receiver was left, after the mentioned switch.
As we see in this list, the player with the most TPE at draft day was not the one who was picked first off the board. I wasn’t in the league at that time and didn’t check the times of the last draft, but so much Chrs Kross gained over 70 TPE more but was picked 5 spots after Red Arrow seems an interesting decision. More so if you take a look at the rest of the prospects. There were 4 receivers with more TPE at the time of the draft. The archetype also couldn’t be the deciding point, as there was already another receiver with the same type and way more TPE in Jerome Davis.
Another surprise was Justice Green at #21 and third receiver off the board. He gathered 62 TPE at the time of the draft which seems low in comparison to the other players. Again, I am new to the league and did not experience one single draft, so I can’t judge why a player went at the position he was selected. Because another weird fact seems to be the fall of Remon Kurisito way down to pick #53 with 94 gathered TPE. In the initial TPE distribution he also made similar decisions as Justice Green and spent almost all in speed.
Now let’s take a look at the production of the rookies in the past DSFL season and how they progressed over time.
Every player in the list is structured the same way with the same stats:
team – name – games – receptions – receiving yards – average – TDs
current stats: agility – speed – hands – endurance – TPE – active
- Red Arrow – 14 – 35 – 421 – 12 – 1
70 – 90 – 72 – 70 – 232 – yes
- Chris Kross – 14 – 43 – 622 – 14.5 – 2
65 – 90 – 75 – 60 – 226 (edit: 274) – yes
- Justice Green – 14 – 27 – 335 – 12.4 – 1
65 – 81 – 55 – 60 – 62 – no
- Alyx Sabor – 14 – 39 – 470 – 12.1
70 – 84 – 70 – 60 – 134 – yes
- Jerome Davis – 14 – 42 – 541 – 12.9 – 4
70 – 89 – 75 – 62 – 242 – yes
- Rusty Nails – 14 – 51 – 641 – 12.6 – 0
70 – 73 – 69 – 69 – 57 – no
- Smolder Bravestone – 14 – 15 – 220 – 14.7 – 0
70 – 80 – 65 – 60 – 97 – no
- Remon Kurisito – 14 – 45 – 583 – 13 – 4
65 – 94 – 55 – 60 – 224 – yes
- Raheem Okusi – 14 – 37 – 474 – 12.8 – 3
65 – 83 – 70 – 60 – 114 – yes
- Grand Salami – 14 – 14 – 143 – 10.2 – 0
71 – 70 – 65 – 68 – 71 – no
- Everett Woodward – 10 – 22 – 277 – 12.6 – 4
this player has no update thread, at least I didn’t find one
- Keval Shah – 14 – 1 – 6 – 6 – 0
65 – 74 – 68 – 65 – 57 – no
- Jade Bridges – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 (no entry found)
59 – 72 – 70 – 65 – 58 – no
- Scotty McGuy – 14 – 4 – 46 – 11.5 – 0
65 – 68 – 75 – 65 – 57 – no
Those are the career stats for the S21 rookies in the DSFL. From 14 prospects entering the draft are 6 still active. Smolder Bravestone regularly checked until beginning of February and also made updates in the players update thread, but seems to be currently inactive. The other 7 players did at maximum a second update for their player, but are inactive since then. Everett Woodward doesn’t have an update page.
Inactiveness doesn’t mean that a player is not successful in the DSFL, as it seems. The player without an update page, Everett Woodward has the most touchdowns out of the rookies with 4. What may have helped him achieving that, is that his archetype is Red Zone Threat. But looking at the other Red Zone Threat in the class, Jade Bridges, he has not even an entry in the receiving list of last season. So he may have not seen the field the whole season, or at least the ball never got into his hands.
But there are another two players with getting 4 Touchdowns in Jerome Davis and Remon Kurisito. Those two speed receivers are very interesting prospects. At one hand we have Davis, which gathered the most TPE of all Wide Receiver rookies and on the other hand there is the speedster of the class in Kurisito.
The most receiving yards has Rusty Nails with 641. Interestingly this prospect is one of those with only one update entry after the initial one. But he was a factor in the game of the Luchadores. The second most yards got Chris Kross, one of the two productive Coyotes rookie receivers. Over the span of their rookie season, 4 prospects (Red Arrow, Chris Kross, Jerome Davis, Remon Kurisito) gained more than 200 TPE with all of them being very close together. They are only separated by 18 TPE (224 – 242). The only two other prospects reaching over 100 points are the other 2 still active ones (Alyx Sabor, Raheem Okusi).
When comparing the TPE at draft day with the ones gathered, there is a quite obvious correlation from TPE at draft process and after the first season. Every prospect with at least over 100 TPE now had at least over 70 TPE when the draft took place. In fact, there are just two receivers with over 60 TPE in Justice Green (62) and Grand Salami (73) at draft day, which are inactive now.
Taking a look at on what the TPE were mostly spent, speed is the main factor for all prospects. The best receivers in the class managed to increase this stat to around 90 or above. The second attribute may be hands, but that is not really considered to be updated.
Before we take a look at the Wide Receiver prospects for the upcoming DSFL draft, let’s rank the active wideout prospects for the NSFL draft:
1. Chris Kross: His production at DSFL level was very good. He improved into a speedy guy with good hands and has still enough room to improve further.
Edit: seems like I overlooked some banked TPE for this guy, which pulls him even more ahead and cements him at the Nr 1 spot amongst Wide Receivers. At least if the data for the others is correct
2. Jerome Davis: The Grey Ducks wideout showed in the DSFL that you shouldn’t count him out.
The decision to be second in the list was quite hard, in the end the better stats for Kross made the difference.
3. Remon Kurisito: This guy is a speedster and will show his worth at the next level. He will have to improve his catching ability, but his speed is unchallenged in his class.
4. Red Arrow: Ranking him at the fourth position indicates that this class is super narrow. Arrow did, by far, not underperform or disappoint in the DSFL, but in the end the lack of production to the other three prospects made him go at 4.
5. Alyx Sabor: The first 4 prospects are, as already mentioned almost at one level, then Sabor comes on a lower stage. His production in his rookie season was good, but he will still need to improve overall to attack the top 4.
6. Raheem Okusi: Okusi still has room to improve on various aspects of his game, similar to Sabor.
S22 Wide Receivers
The S22 Wide Receiver class currently consists of 27 players. At first I want to split this group. Therefore I checked every prospect if he already created an update thread. 14 out of the 27 did so, and I will concentrate mostly on those ones, as already concluded above, players with update threads have a far better chance to improve into valuable prospects at the next level. I guess this won’t make you wonder (but for sure there are exceptions to the rule as seen with Woodward).
Let’s take a look at the players respective update sites and how many TPE they already gathered and documented:
Player name (user): TPE – archetype – agility – speed – hands - endurance
Eddie Jeeta (QuirkyTurtle): 101 TPE – Route Runner – 70 – 70 – 70 - 65
Kevin Koh (Coterminity): 101 TPE – Route Runner – 70 – 70 – 70 - 70
William Lim (yonggarius): 96 TPE – Possession Receiver – 60 – 71 – 75 - 65
William Alexander (morsy): 88 TPE – Red Zone Threat – 60 – 70 – 70 - 65
Susan Cash Jr (2Burkeulosis): 76 TPE – Possession Receiver – 60 – 70 – 70 - 70
Michael Whiteblock (sakrosankt): 66 TPE - Possession Receiver – 65 – 70 - 72 - 70
Friedrich Vequain (Sutj): 61 TPE – Speed Receiver – 70 – 75 – 62 - 60
Blake Alexander (AlexF): 57 TPE – Possession Receiver – 70 – 70 – 70 - 70
Cal Cutta (CJPJD): 57 TPE – Route Runner – 70 – 74 – 70 - 60
Garfiled Despacito Jr (Gwdjohnson): 57 TPE – Speed Receiver – 70 – 77 – 60 - 60
Mike Lee (youngcricket): 57 TPE – Speed Receiver – 65 – 80 – 55 - 60
Tan Johnson (tan5o4): 57 TPE – Possession Receiver – 70 – 70 – 70 - 70
Thomas Passmann (StamkosFan): 57 TPE – Speed Receiver – 65 – 80 – 55 - 60
Ronan Briscoe (ronanb23): 55 TPE – Route Runner – 70 – 75 – 65 - 60
An interesting point we can see, when looking over the S22 prospects with an update thread, is, that the distribution of archetypes is completely different to the previous class. There are just 4 Speed Receivers, the same number as Route Runners. The archetype that was chosen most is Possession Receiver (5) and just 1 Red Zone Threat. Interesting is, why the active players chose their respective archetype. For the still active S21 receivers, we only had Speed Receiver and Route Runner. We will see how the respective careers will pan out for the Possession Receivers and hopefully, the Red Zone Threat stays active, as it is the only one currently active representative of that archetype for the last two classes.
In this class there are currently very much active players, which will be due to the fact that this class is just super huge. I hope this level of activity will continue. By comparing the activity of the S22 prospects to the S21 ones, we can assume that 4 – 5 players are currently ahead of the others in order of prospect valuation. Of course, Eddie Jeeta and Kevin Koh will battle for the top of this class, but we shouldn’t count out neither of the two Williams (Lim and Alexander) nor Susan Cash Jr. But with the activity both top earners in TPE show in the forum and discord, it will be very hard to rise to the top comes draft day.
Mike Lee and Thomas Passmann seem to take a similar approach than Remon Kurisito did last year and try to be as fast as possible. Kurisito was only the eighth receiver off the board last year, although he had a good amount of TPE and knew how to make him faster quickly. This also was to see in his rookie season. It will be interesting if this approach will be successful ones again this year and therefore the draft value will increase for those prospects. The lack of information on active possession receivers makes it difficult to evaluate the draft stock for the current prospects. But I guess activity will be more valued than archetype or already gathered TPE, as only an active player is able to improve further.
Due to the DSFL expansion, it is very difficult to predict any picks for Wide Receiver. If we take a look at the last draft, the first receiver went of the board at #14, followed by #19, #21 and #22. This draft has many good and active players on every position. I think, receivers will again be not on top of the priority list in this draft and expect the first ones to come off the board at the middle to end of the second round. And I am curious how the rookie wideouts will impact the upcoming DSFL season.
*2557 words