03-28-2023, 02:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-01-2023, 08:10 PM by Caleb_H. Edited 1 time in total.)
Firstly, thanks so much for all the kind words and positive feedback on the ASFC edition of this mini-series previewing each team's roster ahead of the ISFL Draft! It was very nice to read the replies, and the feedback I got on discord about it helping people write other articles is exactly why I wrote it, so I’m glad to hear it. I wanted to get this out a bit quicker so there would be more time between now and the draft, but six days to write another 7,000 word article isn’t bad - it does make me look a little rude for not responding to people directly in the thread though. @aeonsjenni and @wizard_literal have also blessed us with a comprehensive review of this class' draft prospects, and that's a great resource too for anyone who enjoyed the previous piece, or anyone reading this introduction after the main body of the piece for some unexplained reason. You can find the first article in that series here. Now, I'm going to make a cup of tea and then use their articles and mine to help me write a mock draft. Enjoy part 2 below!
Baltimore Hawks (7th place, 5-11)
Needs: WR, CB/S
Wants: RB
Top 5 picks: S41 R5, S41 R5 (from New Orleans), S41 R6, S41 R7, S41 R8
Usually, the team with the worst record in the division is looking forward to a draft where they’ve got multiple high draft picks. Instead, I’m going to try to avoid spending too long talking about Baltimore, as they made all their moves last season. Across several trades, they traded their first four picks this season, some older players and some picks in last season’s draft for running back Money Tolliver, wide receiver Rocky Moreaux, tight end Penger Tolliver, linebacker Wälther Gunther and safety Quandale Dingle, and finally inactive safety Fuzzy George, who’s contract was allowed to expire.
Without a pick until round 5, the traditional format of this team-by-team summary doesn’t fit so well to me. So I’m going to try something different, and go back to the usual format for the remainder of the NSFC. As a result of all their moves, Baltimore has young, active players (by my reckoning) at the positions below - i.e. in a normal scenario, they’d be happy not to address these positions.
QB1, RB1, WR1, WR2, TE1, LT, RT, DT1, DT2, DE1, DE2, LB1, LB2, LB3, CB1, CB2, S1, S2.
Baltimore’s first pick is currently slated to be 57th overall: currently, the 57th ranked player by TPE has 161 TPE. Unless a better earner falls for whatever reason, or Baltimore makes some moves to acquire some higher picks, the Hawks will be looking at the middle of this class and picking its favourite prospects from there. 161 TPE is actually very respectable for an ISFL 5th rounder, so depending on how you want to view things Baltimore are either very lucky that they’ll still grab some useful prospects despite trading everything away, or that 161 TPE mark puts into perspective just how much every other team is going to improve by relative to Baltimore.
S37 quarterback Preston Beatz only has four active weapons, so I think Baltimore should look at selecting an RB2 or WR3 for him to utilise, and in a class with 12 draftable wide receivers over 150 TPE one could fall far enough for Baltimore to grab a steal. Otherwise, Baltimore’s offence is set for the next few seasons, with them even having two active human offensive linemen (though one is not a great earner).
Assuming Baltimore calls up one of their draft picks last season, defensive tackle Bourtol Halcomsby, they’re essentially set in the front seven. The fifth DB spot is the other big hole in my opinion, as while the team has four active DBs (including Quandale Dingle, currently in the DSFL) only three of them are over 250 TPE. Pasta the Turtle was drafted in S32 and with 465 TPE, he’ll drop below 350 after regression. If Dingle stays active and continues to earn modestly then he can contribute as the second safety and the team just needs to find a nickelback. As a result, I’m going to cheat and put the need as CB/S.
The team does also have S40 quarterback Rocky Franklin III stashed in the DSFL, who dropped to the fourth round last season because he’s a non-max-earning quarterback. He’s currently considered inactive but could contribute at a fringe position if he returns and switches.
This team is very young, and ‘active’ covers varying levels of activity, but this team really just needs time to develop, and to add players at the margins mentioned above.
Berlin Fire Salamanders (6th place, 5-10-1)
Needs: LB, WR
Wants: OL, RB, TE
Top 5 picks: S41 R2, S41 R3, S41 R3 (from Honolulu), S41 R4, S41 R5
We return now to the previously established format! Welcome to Berlin, where we start at the quarterback position. Berlin’s passer fits in the generally uninteresting its-too-early-to-draft-the-next-guy category. There’s a notable TPE gap between AirCrou’s player and those at the top of the S36 class, but nothing that would affect the team’s future planning at the position. I wouldn’t expect Berlin to begin scouting for Roque Santa Cruz’s replacement until at least next draft.
As explored in my ASFC article, Berlin recently traded both of their (called-up) running backs to New Orleans for their RB1, Armor Queen, giving NOLA their 1st round pick in exchange for NOLA’s 3rd to get the deal done. Berlin’s hand was forced by the retirement of last season’s sixteenth overall pick, K.K. Slider, due to IRL circumstsances. With Jay Cue Jr. approaching the end of his career, Berlin were due to field either an inactive, a true rookie or another trade acquisition in S41 if not for this move. The vast majority of Berlin’s team was drafted in S36, S37 or S38 and this move gives Berlin four of the top 17 earners in S38, which should put the team in a good position when these classes are at their peak. With the importance of the running back position I think it would be wise to consider getting a rookie to develop as many players in this class have more TPE than send down Cape The Party Rhino, but it’s not urgent and so the Fire Salamanders shouldn’t reach for one in this class.
The situation at wide receiver got a lot more interesting, but a lot more uncertain with another midseason trade made by Berlin. The Fire Salamanders sent wide receiver Octavio Pérez to the Chicago Butchers for Chicago’s fifth round pick in the upcoming draft, a move I initially thought signalled Pérez would be returning to Berlin in free agency. Having spoken to GMs during the scouting process, it seems more uncertain than that. Berlin will attempt to re-sign Pérez in free agency, but Pérez choosing to return to the team is not guaranteed and so the Fire Salamanders may be entering S41 with the regressing Zayne Dangle as their WR1. If Raven chooses not to return to Europe then Berlin will have to rely on Really Creative-Name to Really Step-Up as the team’s WR2, and will need to address the position in the draft with no other receivers on the roster or in the DSFL. Without confirmation that Raven is returning to the team, I have to consider this a need - with the knowledge that re-signing Pérez would mean that Berlin can afford to delay drafting a receiver if they choose to do so.
The lesser-discussed element of the Armor Queen trade was that tight end Rex Crenshaw was also sent to Berlin, however Crenshaw was drafted in S30 and retires at the end of S40. Maximilian Hamilton is the other TE on the roster, however he’s inactive at only 405 TPE and begins regression at the end of S41. Hamilton is a fine stopgap for S41, so Berlin could address this in the middle rounds and send someone down for a season, or wait until next season’s draft.
I initially thought offensive line would be lower on Berlin’s priorities, but after speaking with one of their GMs during the scouting process I think they’re more likely to take one than I thought. As mentioned when detailing the trade for Armor Queen, Berlin has a lot of users who’ll peak in the next 3-5 seasons and so if they may find themselves up against the salary cap in those seasons. Human offensive linemen save a team a lot of cash, and some quick napkin maths suggests to me that Berlin doesn’t have enough players who’ll regress into lower contract tiers to be able to sign everyone to an extension and afford solid OL bots when the time comes. If you draft one in S41 then they should be at a serviceable TPE level (or better) when those players are peaking – but I think it’s still apt to consider this Berlin’s biggest ‘want’ rather than a need.
Berlin run a 3-4 base defence, and have three defensive linemen who are earning well, aren’t facing regression, and are under contract with the team. Nathan Meagher, GOAT TANNK and Clint Mustache were drafted in S36, S38 and S40 respectively, and are all in the top 15 earners in their classes. The Fire Salamanders can let other teams draft DL and will hope to capitalise when players at other positions fall to them.
The thing no one tells you about running a 3-4 defence is that you need four linebackers. Berlin currently have two under contract in S41, thanks to Jordan Hartline signing a long contract extension on the eve of the beginning of the legal free agent tampering period. Hartline and McThumper, the team’s most efficient earners at the position, represent a strong pair but 936 TPE Fred Edison is currently slated to become a free agent, and the regressing LaDamien Beck will begin S41 with less TPE than a rookie if they are re-signed. Berlin will want to draft a linebacker in any scenario, but re-signing Edison means they only need someone to play LB4 rather than someone to potentially play LB3 with the fourth spot still open.
Berlin’s secondary is in relatively good shape compared to most teams I’ve looked at so far, as none of their five defensive backs are regressing, and none are below 662 TPE. All three cornerbacks (Charlie Thorsen, Tae Dawson and Johnny Delusional) are active, however only Amidships (Thorsen) max earns and so he’s the highest-TPE player in this group despite being the youngest. The oldest, Delusional, doesn’t regress for the first time until the end of S41 and will remain a serviceable nickelback for the team for a season or two after regression. Berlin might like to pair Thorsen with a more effective earner, but any rookie would be sent down for at least a season and the team has notable holes elsewhere. Nothing is impossible and they'd make it work if a great user fell to them, but I don't think this is a likely destination for one of this class' top CB prospects.
S36 safety L F.T is in the top 10 safeties by TPE, and won’t regress until after S42. His partner in the middle is GM player Diggs Sideline-touchdown (poor Dewalt), drafted in S38. This is a top 5 safety duo by TPE and the players are still improving, so this makes Berlin the only team in the ISFL (so far) that doesn’t have a defensive back listed in its wants or needs.
Finally, at kicker Berlin trots out it’s other GM player: Known Acquaintance (if you know, you know). Rotzbua’s player was drafted in S37 and is ranked in the top half of ISFL kickers by TPE, so while they’re set at the position if you were to look at the roster from a ruthless perspective you’d say they’d rather have Rotz’s TPE at another position. That being said, I don't think there's a position that an Australian Shepherd dog would rather play.
Colorado Yeti (5th place, 7-8-1)
Needs: WR, DL, LB
Wants: CB, RB
Top 5 picks: S41 R1 (from Baltimore), S41 R1, S41 R1 (from Orange County), S41 R2, S41 R3 (from Baltimore)
If you were wondering where Baltimore’s picks went, here they are! Well, some of them. Colorado has three first-round picks (collecting one each from Baltimore and Orange County), and I think they’ll be looking for long-term rather than short-term fixes with their draft capital.
Season 41 will, barring any unexpected events, be starting quarterback Live Laughlove’s final season. The team selected NCADV RAINN (please, someone explain that name to me) with the sixteenth overall pick in S39 and RAINN is set to take over as the starter in S42. Laughlove is currently expected to regress to around 860 TPE, so he’ll be a below-average starter next season. As is the case with New York, I think Colorado should be looking to maximise RAINN’s peak in a few seasons’ time and bite the bullet in the short-term. RAINN is the team’s only active send-down, so this draft is the team’s chance to surround them with talent.
Colorado is due to only have one running back on the roster next season, S36’s Ceti Pyxis. Triple Option is retiring, and Marvin Toledo is an regressing inactive on an expiring deal. Pyxis is the league’s RB9 by TPE so a solid RB1, but they're also 300 TPE behind the S36 class’ TPE leader and I think having a max earning RB is valuable in this sim. If Colorado takes one in this draft, their peak will broadly align with RAINN’s and they can spend some time as RB2 until they’re ready to take over from Pyxis.
The Yeti have the lowest-TPE wide receiver room in the ISFL, and two of them are regressing. WR1 Eeeeeeee phenssta will make his own appearance on the dreaded regression post in S42, and so like San Jose I think this is a team that definitely takes one WR, and maybe takes a second. With no wide receivers in the DSFL, this team will be fielding inactive pickups or rookies, unless there’s a big free agency move. One of their trades with Baltimore last season is the reason for the dearth of talent at the position, and possibly their route to addressing it – two of infinitempg’s previous three players played for the Yeti, and Wolfie McDummy Jr. (presumably, the son of Hall of Fame Colorado Yeti quarterback Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff McDummy) is in this draft class. Colorado will spend one of their three first round picks on McDummy Jr., and possibly look to add a second receiver in the middle rounds to play WR3.
In tight end Mister Hogmally, Laughlove (and later RAINN) has one of the league’s best tight ends to throw to. Hogmally is a top-20 earner in the massive S36 class, and so isn’t due to regress for a while – and will remain one of the league’s best at the position for a couple of seasons after he does. The team also has a second active tight end on the roster in Bong Stevens, who is only a modest earner but it seems even having a second active TE is frivolous – so Colorado can completely ignore this position in the draft.
At offensive line, the Yeti’s one human player is Remi Musgrave-Smythe. Drafted in S38, Chamber really missed a beat here by not creating one season earlier – but Musgrave-Smythe is a solid player at the position who helps with the team’s cap situation. As a team going through transition, cap space shouldn’t be too much of a concern and so the Yeti can stick with one human OL for now as they’re capable of affording four T4 bots alongside him.
Colorado has five defensive linemen on the roster, but three of them are inactives below 250 TPE who haven’t updated since 2022. This is an obvious hole on the team, and the recent earning of defensive end Nathan Explosion is additional cause for concern. Explosion has over 1100 TPE, but regresses for the first time this offseason and they’ve only posted once in the past few weeks. In general I think less active players are less likely to fight regression, so Colorado needs another defensive lineman in this draft to partner Explosion and the other end, Aidan Hutchinson Jr., but would also like a second lineman in this class or next to eventually take over from Explosion. They have the draft capital to select plenty of rookies in this class, so I think they're sure to take a lineman with one of their early picks.
It’s not clear to me from the roster construction whether the Yeti intend to play a 4-3 or a 3-4, but either way they’ll only have two linebackers next season so should add another. Colorado drafted Waylen Greene second overall in the S39 draft, and he’s the team’s top LB by TPE ahead of S37 draftee Grayson Yates. Yates remains active, but earns relatively modestly. Colorado drafted Jason Waterfalls tenth overall ten seasons ago, and this figures to be his last season with the team as he’s facing a significant amount of regression. Colorado could potentially play one of their defensive backs at this position in a base formation, but either way the team will be forced to draft a linebacker or sign an inactive free agent here.
Colorado’s secondary has a lot of TPE, but it’s not the youngest unit in the league. Anthony Stark plays CB1, and having been drafted in S35 he’ll regress for the first time at the end of S41. CB2 Cedric Wilkins II will lose more than 300 TPE to regression, which will knock him below 600 and cause him to compete with current CB3 Cob Corning for the starting job – the player acquired in one of the trades with Baltimore mentioned above. Corning was also drafted in S35, and with him being inactive he’ll be a viable corner for a much shorter time than Stark. The Yeti should draft someone at CB, send them down to the DSFL for a season and have them ready to take over from Wilkins II in S42 – otherwise this unit is going to start deteriorating rapidly.
At safety, the team fields Cross-Eriksen and Inspector Gadget. Cross-Eriksen will regress for the first time this offseason, but is one of the team’s GMs and will peak at close to 1600 TPE – so I expect them to stick around for a while. Inspector Gadget is a few seasons younger, drafted in S37, so I don’t see Colorado drafting a safety unless it’s very late and they’ve addressed the far more urgent positions above. There are a couple of safeties who are active, but not earning as much TPE as the top prospects at the position - making them a good send-down candidate.
Finally, kicker Orlando Doom has a great name and at 672 TPE, is a top-5 kicker by TPE. The Yeti don’t need a kicker.
Sarasota Sailfish (4th place, 8-7-1)
Needs: WR, LB, S
Wants: RB, DL, CB
Top 5 picks: S41 R1, S41 R2, S41 R3, S41 R4 (from Baltimore), S41 R4
I repeatedly felt sorry for Sarasota throughout S41, as I felt they were better than their record (as their +136 point differential suggested). S39 Most Outstanding Player Carter Knight has played his last game for the team and has announced his retirement, meaning the team’s starting quarterback in S41 will be current London Royal Willier Miller, who was drafted fifth overall in the S39 draft. Like with the other teams starting new QBs, I think the goal should be surrounding them with well-matched talent.
Sarasota’s running back position frames this dilemma well: RB1 (and RB2, and RB3 as he’s the only one on the roster) Pete Zuh is one of the league’s better backs, and finished with over 1900 total yards in S40. Unfortunately for Sarasota, he’s 228 TPE (more than a whole season of earning) behind the class leader in his draft class (S36). As Miller approaches his peak, Zuh will be a low-end RB1 or high-end RB2, and given the importance of the position I think the Sailfish should look to provide Miller with a better RB1 during his peak. If you take one now, he peaks shortly after Miller - and Miller will get the benefit of Zuh carrying the workload early in his career before the S41 draftee takes over in Miller’s prime. I’m considering this a want rather than a need as it’s something that would maximise Sarasota’s competitiveness as opposed to something holding them back.
When I glanced over the team’s prior to beginning this mini-series, I thought Sarasota seemed like a team that might want a WR3 but was relatively set at the position. Since I started writing, they traded their highest-TPE wide receiver to San Jose in a trade I covered a little in the ASFC needs article. As a result, their receiver room is now Johnny Blaze Jr., an ageing Nick Kaepercolin Jr., and a retiring Cornelius King III. Kaepercolin Jr. will regress to below 500 TPE, and it will be extra hard to replace him due to the apparent requirement that you be the second or third of your name in order to play wide receiver for Sarasota... wait, perhaps that’s why Sconnie McSix was traded? Regardless, Kaepercolin Jr. has one more season left in him and King III has zero more seasons left in him so the Marlins Sailfish should take a receiver in this class and a receiver in the next draft, unless they fancy double-dipping on the wide receiver talent available in S41.
Sarasota has two tight ends on the roster, and Lucius Salem is the league’s TE1 by TPE. Salem regresses for the first time this offseason, but will remain one of the league’s top TEs for a few seasons. The team also rosters blocking tight end Bastian Weichselbraun, but at 164 TPE he’s actually a worse blocker than Salem and as an impending free agent, presumably will not be re-signed. I think Sarasota can wait to draft a pure TE, and focus on other positions.
The Sailfish have three human offensive linemen, but unfortunately they’re all regressing. S28’s Stumpy Jones and S32’s Troy Barnes are the oldest and looked like potential cap casualties to me until Sarasota agreed to re-sign Barnes, who’s currently set to regress to below 400 TPE. The youngest of the group, Dane Johnson Jr., experiences regression for the first time this offseason. He’s due to regress from 805 TPE so is clearly far from a max earner, but will provide cap relief for at least a couple more seasons. Sarasota is historically one of the league’s more competitive teams and is top 5 in TPE pre-regression, so I think they’d like to add another lineman here to continue benefitting from the cap relief they’ll need in future seasons to sustain success. It’s not a priority though, and the team has some holes on defence that need filling more than they need cap space right now.
The highlights of Sarasota’s defensive line is GM player Harley Andrews, and last season the team used it’s first-round draft pick on defensive end Ginand Toxic. Toxic’s earning isn’t elite – he’s 22nd in the S40 class in TPE – but it’s good enough for defensive line, and the pair are joined by two older players that Sarasota will look to phase out in the near future. Mrs. "Stacks" McHits has 543 TPE, but she’s the oldest of the group and will soon lose 30% of that to regression. Mistah Freddy is the only true defensive tackle, and is inactive at 414 TPE – but doesn’t begin regression until next offseason and will be better than most rookies until then. I think this is a position Sarasota will wait until next draft to address as they’ve re-signed McHits and Freddy for S41, but if they find a defensive line prospect they like in this draft they’ll happily take them.
The linebacker core is led by 1140 TPE Aqeel Steele (great name), but he stopped posting for reasons unknown (to me) last month and so has been brought back on an IA contract. Another GM player, Fronky Fresh, provides a relatively sure thing at the position for seasons to come but there’s nothing else to be excited about. S30’s don’t draft was drafted against his will a long time ago, and so faces 50% regression while current LB4 Justin Cloud is 302 TPE and has been retained on another IA deal. A max-earning rookie could start for this team, and as they’d be an immediate improvement there’s no reason to wait until S42 for don’t draft to be formally executed by the regression department before addressing the linebacker position. Sarasota should draft one in S41, and I’m sure they will.
CB1 King Zeus has continued to earn well despite regression, recovering most of the TPE stolen from him last offseason before he regresses again shortly. The S33 corner plays across from Dip Dhillon, who’s considered inactive but is young and has 624 TPE so he’s a relatively competent CB2. Calvin Hobbes played the nickel role in S40, but he’s inactive and was drafted in S30 so won’t be a viable starter next season. His contract has been allowed to expire. I think they’d rather select a safety to play the nickel role next season though, because…
These safeties are old. Spike Daniels and Rocky Rhoads were drafted in S31 and S32 respectively, meaning they’ll lose a boatload of TPE this offseason (40% for Daniels and 30% for Rhoads). I think they should take one this draft, as needing to take two next season would be a tough position to be in. As I’ve mentioned throughout this roster summary though, the top safeties in this class are great, but there’s just not that many of them. Sarasota could be another team relying on a rookie to switch positions.
Finally, Sarasota kicker Swantavius King has the biggest, most accurate leg in the league. There’s no reason for this team to consider drafting a kicker.
Cape Town Crash (3rd place, 10-6)
Needs: LB, CB
Wants: OL, DL
Top 5 picks: S41 R1, S41 R2, S41 R3 (from New York), S41 R3, S41 R4
Rookie quarterback Creg Jerrith IV began his career as the Crash’s starter in S40, and having been drafted in S37 the team won’t be looking at drafting a replacement for some time. This team looks well set-up for the future, with an astonishing seven active prospects currently sent down to the DSFL. They have a full complement of draft picks plus New York’s round 3, giving them a third top-30 pick despite being a playoff team.
Cape Town will call up at least one of their two DSFL running backs in S41, with last season’s 35th overall pick Nakiri Ayame practically certain to be called up. Ayame will back up Jarvis Harbinger-Marjin, who was drafted in S36 and is currently the league’s RB4 by TPE. Harbinger-Marjin is a power back, so expect speed back Ayame to see some time in the slot and on third down. This team is set at the position for a while, even if S39 draftee Malik Jordan doesn’t make it out of the DSFL.
Two of the team’s currently rostered wide receivers will be regressing this offseason, and one is retiring as a result. Cape Town prepared for that last draft, though, with the selection of Kairo Knight at seventh overall. Knight will play WR3 behind the regressing Erwin Kemp (who’ll still start the season with at least 850 TPE) and S36 draftee Derrick Prince, who’ll compete with Kemp for the WR1 role. Cape Town also drafted Mike Ehrmantraut in the middle of last season’s 2nd round, and while he’s not earning as much as Knight he can be the one to replace Kemp when regression starts to take his toll. If Cape Town wants to build a particularly strong receiver room they could take one of this class’ many talented receivers as they could easily outearn Ehrmantraut, but receiver definitely isn’t a need as that’d represent a relatively marginal upgrade.
Tight end American Boot is the league’s TE4 by TPE, and as an S35 draftee he’s still a season away from regression. The team did also select vertical threat Jake Basinger in Round 3 of the S40 draft, but he’s since gone inactive and so is unlikely to ever be called up. Cape Town could’ve considered getting tricky and drafting a blocking TE, but there’s only one in this class and he’s 80 TPE. The Crash can probably ignore tight end too.
Finally, a position where Cape Town might look to draft someone! Despite already having two offensive linemen on the roster, this is a team I think should take a good look at the users in this offensive line class. Cape Town has eleven players from the S35 and S36 classes approaching their peak, and several will need to be re-signed for more than they’re earning currently. Swantavius Payne, the commissioner’s player, will be good long into regression but the inactive Pilot RedSun is only 404 TPE and regresses next offseason. It’d be wise to select another lineman to offer cap relief in place of or as well as RedSun.
Turning to the defensive side of the ball, there’s some turnover on the line as defensive end Able Archer is retiring at the end of the season. Archer has played alongside GM player Christian Marciano, drafted in S33, and Udo E Beaty, who was drafted in S36. Marciano will regress again during the offseason, but will still start S41 at or around 1000 TPE. Beaty is a steady earner who doesn’t regress for a while. Cape Town drafted defensive end Ryan Lawrence 33rd overall last offseason, and he’ll be called up to take Archer’s place. With Marciano regressing I think the team could consider taking another swing at DL, given that S39 draftee Lenny Lyons Jr. has been overtaken by Lawrence in TPE and might not make it to the big league.
Linebacker represents the team’s first true need, but the situation is better than it looks on first glance. Barry Badman leads the way as an almost-1200 TPE LB who’s not yet reached regression, but his three sidekicks are Old, Older and Bad. Old (Doc Fireball) is due to regress below 400 TPE, and Older (Dominos Pizzaman) has announced his retirement – meaning Cape Town needs a new starter in S41 and likely another new starter in S42 to replace Fireball. Bad (Haloick Oasis) is also a candidate to be replaced by a rookie, as he’s inactive with 340 TPE. Arriving from the DSFL to replace Pizzaman is the other GM player, Kenny McCormick – who has more TPE than it looks due to him having decided to punish his updater with a giant update once he leaves the DSFL. The team should be looking to draft replacements for both Fireball and Oasis though, so expect at least one linebacker to be selected by Cape Town.
Conversely, the cornerback position looks a bit worse than the TPE suggests. The team’s CB1 is quarterback-turned-cornerback Bageshwari Singh, and Singh is both facing regression and hasn’t earned any TPE since making that switch. I still occasionally see him on discord, so he strikes me as a potential candidate to retire and recreate in the near future, and it doesn’t appear he’ll fight regression. CB2 Art Deco was drafted in S35 and is over 500 TPE behind the class lead, but he is still active. One of these spots will eventually be filled by nickelback Eric Belmont, but the S38 player isn’t the best earner himself and this is one of the few positions Cape Town doesn’t have someone stashed in the DSFL. This is the team’s next biggest need.
The landscape is much better at safety, where the team has a pair of S36 players. Rival rap artists LCC and Alikh’s players are a couple hundred TPE apart, but they’re both still 2 seasons away from regression and are one of the league’s better safety duos. There’s no need to draft a safety here, not that there are enough to go around.
Finally, Crash kicker Patrick Cunningham is a serviceable starter who’s not regressing. This isn’t a priority either.
Chicago Butchers (2nd place, 12-4)
Needs: LB, CB, S
Wants: RB, OL
Top 5 picks: S41 R1, S41 R2, S41 R3, S41 R4 (from San Jose), S41 R4
Chicago are arguably this season’s Cinderella story, as journeyman quarterback Adrian St. Christmas has taken a second consecutive team to 12+ wins and a playoff berth. St. Christmas will likely step aside to bring good tidings and festive spirit to a new team, and the Butchers will call up GM player Painted Penguin to play quarterback in S41. The team will likely go through a short transitional period, as three players are retiring and both Octavio Pérez and Apollo Program are entering free agency. Including Painted, the team has seven currently active players in the DSFL so there will be a lot of new faces on the team in S41.
...But, probably not at running back. I’ve seen Lalu Muhammad Zohri described as everyone’s favourite inactive running back due to his fantasy prowess, but in S41 he’ll regress and take an RB2 role behind S39 draftee Frank Dux. Dux ranks 4th in the class in TPE, and is capable of handling a bigger workload while Painted Penguin adjusts to the pace of the ISFL. Chicago will probably be happy with the Dux/Zohri pairing for S41, but if they fall in love with an RB in this class they could draft one to replace Zohri in S42.
WR1 Austin Morley is one of my favourite players to watch in the ISFL, due to being the league’s only high-TPE Return Specialist. Octavio Pérez, who has been playing with the team since a mid-season trade with Berlin, will be testing free agency this offseason and some of Chicago’s plans for this draft will depend on the possibility of re-signing Pérez. From talking with one of their GMs in scouting, it seems they’re planning as if Pérez is leaving, and seeing his return as a potential bonus rather than something to rely on. WR3 Vincent Sharpei Jr. has announced his retirement, so the team will call up at least one of its three DSFL wide receivers to replace him – last season’s first-round draft pick Jimmy Ryder has the most TPE, and is most likely to get the call. Plant Based and Malcolm Grimes are currently set to fight for the WR3 spot, but neither are max earners and so the team could look to draft one of this class’ many wide receivers to fill out the unit. Chicago has some extra draft capital if they want to consider a plan like this.
Tight end Walter McKinley has been great for my fantasy team, and Chicago’s season reception-leader is the league’s TE5 by TPE. Drafted in S36, McKinley isn’t due to regress for a while and Chicago doesn’t need to do much future planning at the position even with S39 draft pick Hex Amofah becoming inactive.
Chicago’s lone human offensive lineman, Theo AwardsSystemIsBad, will regress to a little over 300 TPE and may soon disappear along with the awards system they once rallied against. The Butchers have a lot of money coming off their books and so don’t need an offensive lineman urgently, but this class’ selection of moderate-earning offensive lineman could match nicely with one of Chicago’s mid-round picks.
The Butchers could return the same defensive line in S41, as defensive tackle Joseph Reed and end Xavier Valorian are both above-average starters drafted in S36. They’re joined on the line by tackle Franklin Turtle, who will regress for a third time but will still have as much TPE as a max-earning rookie post-regression. The team drafted Action Bronson with one of the final picks in the S40 draft at 49th overall, and Bronson now has 234 TPE so may develop into a player capable of replacing Turtle. If the team thinks otherwise, there’s some talent in this class that they could select to compete with him – but it’s not a need unless they’re certain Bronson’s development will slow.
Chicago are another team that will definitely draft a linebacker, as two of the aforementioned retirements are at the position. Three of the team’s four LBs will regress this offseason, and the other was recently signed to an IA contract having not posted since January. S34’s Rumble Ronson will remain a useful starter for at least a couple of seasons, and the IA contract went to Brian Duke, who is a below-average, but not awful starter, but Chicago needs to replace the two retirements: long-time Butcher Dexter Hall and Sakeem Webb. I think it’s more likely the team drafts one LB and signs a stopgap for another spot, but if they find two linebackers they like then the team could conceivably draft and start them both.
Quendyn Quarterstorm gives the team a reliable CB1 who won’t regress until after S43, but he’s the only CB currently contracted to the team next season. There will likely be a bidding war in free agency for CB2 Apollo Program, as there was last offseason, and so it’s unclear whether they’ll return to the team. CB3 Jonathan Altidor is inactive, and could be replaced by send down Bobby Steel, but Steel currently has less TPE than Altidor and only does a curated selection of the TPE opportunities available to him. The team should select a CB in this class either way, as Program doesn’t appear to be a stable long-term option and the team needs one opposite Quarterstorm. If they’re able to retain Program, then the team still gets an upgrade at CB3.
The only safety currently on the ISFL roster is Dee Walt, and he’ll lose half his TPE this offseason (putting him below 400). He might be joined in the defensive backfield by Xavier Frost, drafted in Round 3 by the Butchers last offseason. LANEFROST hasn’t posted since signing his rookie deal, but as discussed throughout these articles there’s only two max-earning safeties and two more (non-suspended) earning at a decent rate. Unless Chicago can grab Mary Marie or Rico Savage, they’ll likely be relying on a position switch or looking ahead to the next draft.
Kicker David Doug was only drafted in S38, so is likely to retain kicking duties for a while unless Chicago is particularly taken to a kicking prospect’s personality.
Yellowknife Wraiths (1st place, 12-4)
Needs: LB, CB, S
Wants: WR, DL
Top 5 picks: S41 R1, S41 R2, S41 R3, S41 R4, S41 R5
The strength of Yellowknife’s roster can be best-characterised by the fact that the Wraiths won 12 games while fielding the quarterback with the least applied TPE in the league. Absolute Unit, Arkz’s player, switched from defensive tackle to quarterback following the departure of Adrian St. Christmas in free agency. As a result, he started the season with less than 600 applied TPE, the remainder locked away until this offseason and next under the new (to me) position switch rules. Naturally, the Wraiths then scored as many points as any other NSFC team and won the division. Not bad. As an S36 draftee, Yellowknife don’t need to think about drafting Unit’s replacement yet, and besides, it’d feel exceptionally cruel to do that after their first season of QB play.
Kumquat Archipelago and Adebayo Akinfenwa have nearly as much TPE as they have letters in their respective names, which is a clever way of saying they are the league’s highest-TPE backfield. The pair combined for over 3600 scrimmage yards last season, and S41 is due to be their peak season as both backs were drafted in S35. There will be a time when this backfield needs to be refreshed, but I don’t think it’s in this draft.
While Archipelago is often used as a receiver, the team’s actual receiver core could do with some investment. Calvin Spiff is the team’s WR1 by TPE, and S41 will be his final season before regression. Bernd D. Brot, meanwhile, will regress for a third time and hasn’t earned any TPE in the last month. Regression is due to take them to around 600 TPE, and as they’ve been logging into the site I think they’re a candidate to retire and recreate after the Ultimus. S39 29th overall pick Branden Rojas has done well to make it to 253 TPE given their TPE at the time of the draft, but the top receivers in the S41 class have already surpassed that and so the Wraiths could select an immediate upgrade who’ll be ready to take on a limited role now and/or replace Brot in S42.
I don’t think Yellowknife are likely to draft a tight end. As mentioned above, they tend to use Archipelago as their WR3, and Blocking TE Detective Crashmore doesn’t see many targets. The Wraiths ranked 12th in receptions by tight ends in S40, and having drafted Crashmore just last offseason I don’t see Yellowknife restructuring their offence around a second tight end.
The Wraiths ranked #2 in total team TPE prior to regression, and so benefit from spending $6m per season on a pair of active human offensive linemen instead of more on two worse bots. J.T. Kurbis has over 1000 TPE and was drafted in S36, while Dusty Wilson was drafted a season later in the smaller S37 class. Both are good (but not max-)earners who will continue to provide cap savings for several seasons, and don’t need replacing. Yellowknife could look to supplement the offensive line further, but with a lot of the defence regressing I think the time to do that has passed and that the team would be better off investing draft capital on some young defenders.
The headline TPE numbers on this defence are gaudy, but the defence is beginning to get old in places. Defensive end Daron Arnold is the league’s top-TPE end, but he regresses for a second time this offseason and so will cede that crown to a young player. As long as TubaDeus is happy to fight regression he’ll remain a top starter for a few more seasons, so despite his age his spot on the line doesn’t need addressing yet. Nose tackle Mo Gago is the (joint) top earner from S39, and should lock down the position for a long time. The lone weak spot is inactive 277 TPE DL Teddy Rhinoback, who initially looks like a priority to replace until you examine the rest of the defensive side of the ball. A lot of GMs seem to prefer 3-4 based on my scouting conversations and I think Yellowknife would still have more TPE next season playing a 3-4, so I don’t think the team does something tricky and drafts a DL to play alongside Rhinoback next season.
Prior to regression, Yellowknife’s three linebackers average over 1100 TPE, but sadly for the Canadian outfit one LB is retiring and the other two are regressing. The retirement, Jack McPherson, was only drafted in S35 and so his retirement may have made things a bit difficult for the team. Zephyr "Tater" GreyWolf is the oldest, and has the least TPE – I imagine that last season’s second-round selection Toad Wananapaoa was drafted as his potential replacement rather than one for McPherson. Wananapaoa only ranks 35th in the class in 274 TPE, though, meaning it’s far from a like-for-like switch as McPherson departs. The third member of the current group, Kahn Cussion, has 1318 TPE so is not in any urgent need of replacing – but like Arnold, he regresses for a second time this offseason. Due to the importance of the position I think it’s more important that Yellowknife drafts a linebacker than a defensive lineman, as I think you can hide a lower-TPE DL more easily. I’ve also made the assumption that Yellowknife continues to play a safety at LB where required, as Arizona do.
Cornerback is a similar story, where Kalam Mekhar and Simon The Frog form a very strong, but slightly old duo. After regression, Mekhar will make his way back up from around 850 TPE while The Frog hasn’t earned TPE since 2022 and so will be a hit a little harder. This is The Frog’s first dose of regression and so he’ll be a competent starter in S41 and the team could survive playing him in S42, but the Wraiths need to draft a new CB duo in the next few drafts and it makes the following drafts easier to navigate if the team selects one sooner rather than later. I don’t think this defence can remain the force it currently is without good CB play, and so I think one of Yellowknife’s first two picks is likely to be spent on this position.
Yellowknife’s top two safeties are both regressing, but as they’ll be picking outside the top 10 I expect Mary Marie and Rico Savage to both be selected several picks before the Wraiths are first on the clock. Sam Sung and Jay Spears were drafted three seasons apart in S34 and S31 respectively, and while Sung will still top 600 TPE, Spears will dip below 400. Their current third safety, Gore Done Ram Say, will likely be thrust into a starting role ahead of Spears and due to the lack of safety prospects available I think a rookie from this class will switch and be sent down next season, or a player already on the roster will switch ahead of S42.
The final position covered in this 15,000+ word behemoth is Yellowknife's kicker, Double Doink. Sarah's player was drafted in S33 so will regress down to around 700 TPE, but that's still enough to be one of the ISFL's better kickers. Yellowknife can continue to rely on Doink for the foreseeable future.
That's it, then. I cut some corners writing about Baltimore, but across these two articles I've covered just about every position on every ISFL roster, and how it'll affect the team's draft plans this offseason. Thank you to everyone who's read some or all of this! <3
Baltimore Hawks (7th place, 5-11)Needs: WR, CB/S
Wants: RB
Top 5 picks: S41 R5, S41 R5 (from New Orleans), S41 R6, S41 R7, S41 R8
Usually, the team with the worst record in the division is looking forward to a draft where they’ve got multiple high draft picks. Instead, I’m going to try to avoid spending too long talking about Baltimore, as they made all their moves last season. Across several trades, they traded their first four picks this season, some older players and some picks in last season’s draft for running back Money Tolliver, wide receiver Rocky Moreaux, tight end Penger Tolliver, linebacker Wälther Gunther and safety Quandale Dingle, and finally inactive safety Fuzzy George, who’s contract was allowed to expire.
Without a pick until round 5, the traditional format of this team-by-team summary doesn’t fit so well to me. So I’m going to try something different, and go back to the usual format for the remainder of the NSFC. As a result of all their moves, Baltimore has young, active players (by my reckoning) at the positions below - i.e. in a normal scenario, they’d be happy not to address these positions.
QB1, RB1, WR1, WR2, TE1, LT, RT, DT1, DT2, DE1, DE2, LB1, LB2, LB3, CB1, CB2, S1, S2.
Baltimore’s first pick is currently slated to be 57th overall: currently, the 57th ranked player by TPE has 161 TPE. Unless a better earner falls for whatever reason, or Baltimore makes some moves to acquire some higher picks, the Hawks will be looking at the middle of this class and picking its favourite prospects from there. 161 TPE is actually very respectable for an ISFL 5th rounder, so depending on how you want to view things Baltimore are either very lucky that they’ll still grab some useful prospects despite trading everything away, or that 161 TPE mark puts into perspective just how much every other team is going to improve by relative to Baltimore.
S37 quarterback Preston Beatz only has four active weapons, so I think Baltimore should look at selecting an RB2 or WR3 for him to utilise, and in a class with 12 draftable wide receivers over 150 TPE one could fall far enough for Baltimore to grab a steal. Otherwise, Baltimore’s offence is set for the next few seasons, with them even having two active human offensive linemen (though one is not a great earner).
Assuming Baltimore calls up one of their draft picks last season, defensive tackle Bourtol Halcomsby, they’re essentially set in the front seven. The fifth DB spot is the other big hole in my opinion, as while the team has four active DBs (including Quandale Dingle, currently in the DSFL) only three of them are over 250 TPE. Pasta the Turtle was drafted in S32 and with 465 TPE, he’ll drop below 350 after regression. If Dingle stays active and continues to earn modestly then he can contribute as the second safety and the team just needs to find a nickelback. As a result, I’m going to cheat and put the need as CB/S.
The team does also have S40 quarterback Rocky Franklin III stashed in the DSFL, who dropped to the fourth round last season because he’s a non-max-earning quarterback. He’s currently considered inactive but could contribute at a fringe position if he returns and switches.
This team is very young, and ‘active’ covers varying levels of activity, but this team really just needs time to develop, and to add players at the margins mentioned above.
Berlin Fire Salamanders (6th place, 5-10-1)Needs: LB, WR
Wants: OL, RB, TE
Top 5 picks: S41 R2, S41 R3, S41 R3 (from Honolulu), S41 R4, S41 R5
We return now to the previously established format! Welcome to Berlin, where we start at the quarterback position. Berlin’s passer fits in the generally uninteresting its-too-early-to-draft-the-next-guy category. There’s a notable TPE gap between AirCrou’s player and those at the top of the S36 class, but nothing that would affect the team’s future planning at the position. I wouldn’t expect Berlin to begin scouting for Roque Santa Cruz’s replacement until at least next draft.
As explored in my ASFC article, Berlin recently traded both of their (called-up) running backs to New Orleans for their RB1, Armor Queen, giving NOLA their 1st round pick in exchange for NOLA’s 3rd to get the deal done. Berlin’s hand was forced by the retirement of last season’s sixteenth overall pick, K.K. Slider, due to IRL circumstsances. With Jay Cue Jr. approaching the end of his career, Berlin were due to field either an inactive, a true rookie or another trade acquisition in S41 if not for this move. The vast majority of Berlin’s team was drafted in S36, S37 or S38 and this move gives Berlin four of the top 17 earners in S38, which should put the team in a good position when these classes are at their peak. With the importance of the running back position I think it would be wise to consider getting a rookie to develop as many players in this class have more TPE than send down Cape The Party Rhino, but it’s not urgent and so the Fire Salamanders shouldn’t reach for one in this class.
The situation at wide receiver got a lot more interesting, but a lot more uncertain with another midseason trade made by Berlin. The Fire Salamanders sent wide receiver Octavio Pérez to the Chicago Butchers for Chicago’s fifth round pick in the upcoming draft, a move I initially thought signalled Pérez would be returning to Berlin in free agency. Having spoken to GMs during the scouting process, it seems more uncertain than that. Berlin will attempt to re-sign Pérez in free agency, but Pérez choosing to return to the team is not guaranteed and so the Fire Salamanders may be entering S41 with the regressing Zayne Dangle as their WR1. If Raven chooses not to return to Europe then Berlin will have to rely on Really Creative-Name to Really Step-Up as the team’s WR2, and will need to address the position in the draft with no other receivers on the roster or in the DSFL. Without confirmation that Raven is returning to the team, I have to consider this a need - with the knowledge that re-signing Pérez would mean that Berlin can afford to delay drafting a receiver if they choose to do so.
The lesser-discussed element of the Armor Queen trade was that tight end Rex Crenshaw was also sent to Berlin, however Crenshaw was drafted in S30 and retires at the end of S40. Maximilian Hamilton is the other TE on the roster, however he’s inactive at only 405 TPE and begins regression at the end of S41. Hamilton is a fine stopgap for S41, so Berlin could address this in the middle rounds and send someone down for a season, or wait until next season’s draft.
I initially thought offensive line would be lower on Berlin’s priorities, but after speaking with one of their GMs during the scouting process I think they’re more likely to take one than I thought. As mentioned when detailing the trade for Armor Queen, Berlin has a lot of users who’ll peak in the next 3-5 seasons and so if they may find themselves up against the salary cap in those seasons. Human offensive linemen save a team a lot of cash, and some quick napkin maths suggests to me that Berlin doesn’t have enough players who’ll regress into lower contract tiers to be able to sign everyone to an extension and afford solid OL bots when the time comes. If you draft one in S41 then they should be at a serviceable TPE level (or better) when those players are peaking – but I think it’s still apt to consider this Berlin’s biggest ‘want’ rather than a need.
Berlin run a 3-4 base defence, and have three defensive linemen who are earning well, aren’t facing regression, and are under contract with the team. Nathan Meagher, GOAT TANNK and Clint Mustache were drafted in S36, S38 and S40 respectively, and are all in the top 15 earners in their classes. The Fire Salamanders can let other teams draft DL and will hope to capitalise when players at other positions fall to them.
The thing no one tells you about running a 3-4 defence is that you need four linebackers. Berlin currently have two under contract in S41, thanks to Jordan Hartline signing a long contract extension on the eve of the beginning of the legal free agent tampering period. Hartline and McThumper, the team’s most efficient earners at the position, represent a strong pair but 936 TPE Fred Edison is currently slated to become a free agent, and the regressing LaDamien Beck will begin S41 with less TPE than a rookie if they are re-signed. Berlin will want to draft a linebacker in any scenario, but re-signing Edison means they only need someone to play LB4 rather than someone to potentially play LB3 with the fourth spot still open.
Berlin’s secondary is in relatively good shape compared to most teams I’ve looked at so far, as none of their five defensive backs are regressing, and none are below 662 TPE. All three cornerbacks (Charlie Thorsen, Tae Dawson and Johnny Delusional) are active, however only Amidships (Thorsen) max earns and so he’s the highest-TPE player in this group despite being the youngest. The oldest, Delusional, doesn’t regress for the first time until the end of S41 and will remain a serviceable nickelback for the team for a season or two after regression. Berlin might like to pair Thorsen with a more effective earner, but any rookie would be sent down for at least a season and the team has notable holes elsewhere. Nothing is impossible and they'd make it work if a great user fell to them, but I don't think this is a likely destination for one of this class' top CB prospects.
S36 safety L F.T is in the top 10 safeties by TPE, and won’t regress until after S42. His partner in the middle is GM player Diggs Sideline-touchdown (poor Dewalt), drafted in S38. This is a top 5 safety duo by TPE and the players are still improving, so this makes Berlin the only team in the ISFL (so far) that doesn’t have a defensive back listed in its wants or needs.
Finally, at kicker Berlin trots out it’s other GM player: Known Acquaintance (if you know, you know). Rotzbua’s player was drafted in S37 and is ranked in the top half of ISFL kickers by TPE, so while they’re set at the position if you were to look at the roster from a ruthless perspective you’d say they’d rather have Rotz’s TPE at another position. That being said, I don't think there's a position that an Australian Shepherd dog would rather play.
Colorado Yeti (5th place, 7-8-1)Needs: WR, DL, LB
Wants: CB, RB
Top 5 picks: S41 R1 (from Baltimore), S41 R1, S41 R1 (from Orange County), S41 R2, S41 R3 (from Baltimore)
If you were wondering where Baltimore’s picks went, here they are! Well, some of them. Colorado has three first-round picks (collecting one each from Baltimore and Orange County), and I think they’ll be looking for long-term rather than short-term fixes with their draft capital.
Season 41 will, barring any unexpected events, be starting quarterback Live Laughlove’s final season. The team selected NCADV RAINN (please, someone explain that name to me) with the sixteenth overall pick in S39 and RAINN is set to take over as the starter in S42. Laughlove is currently expected to regress to around 860 TPE, so he’ll be a below-average starter next season. As is the case with New York, I think Colorado should be looking to maximise RAINN’s peak in a few seasons’ time and bite the bullet in the short-term. RAINN is the team’s only active send-down, so this draft is the team’s chance to surround them with talent.
Colorado is due to only have one running back on the roster next season, S36’s Ceti Pyxis. Triple Option is retiring, and Marvin Toledo is an regressing inactive on an expiring deal. Pyxis is the league’s RB9 by TPE so a solid RB1, but they're also 300 TPE behind the S36 class’ TPE leader and I think having a max earning RB is valuable in this sim. If Colorado takes one in this draft, their peak will broadly align with RAINN’s and they can spend some time as RB2 until they’re ready to take over from Pyxis.
The Yeti have the lowest-TPE wide receiver room in the ISFL, and two of them are regressing. WR1 Eeeeeeee phenssta will make his own appearance on the dreaded regression post in S42, and so like San Jose I think this is a team that definitely takes one WR, and maybe takes a second. With no wide receivers in the DSFL, this team will be fielding inactive pickups or rookies, unless there’s a big free agency move. One of their trades with Baltimore last season is the reason for the dearth of talent at the position, and possibly their route to addressing it – two of infinitempg’s previous three players played for the Yeti, and Wolfie McDummy Jr. (presumably, the son of Hall of Fame Colorado Yeti quarterback Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff McDummy) is in this draft class. Colorado will spend one of their three first round picks on McDummy Jr., and possibly look to add a second receiver in the middle rounds to play WR3.
In tight end Mister Hogmally, Laughlove (and later RAINN) has one of the league’s best tight ends to throw to. Hogmally is a top-20 earner in the massive S36 class, and so isn’t due to regress for a while – and will remain one of the league’s best at the position for a couple of seasons after he does. The team also has a second active tight end on the roster in Bong Stevens, who is only a modest earner but it seems even having a second active TE is frivolous – so Colorado can completely ignore this position in the draft.
At offensive line, the Yeti’s one human player is Remi Musgrave-Smythe. Drafted in S38, Chamber really missed a beat here by not creating one season earlier – but Musgrave-Smythe is a solid player at the position who helps with the team’s cap situation. As a team going through transition, cap space shouldn’t be too much of a concern and so the Yeti can stick with one human OL for now as they’re capable of affording four T4 bots alongside him.
Colorado has five defensive linemen on the roster, but three of them are inactives below 250 TPE who haven’t updated since 2022. This is an obvious hole on the team, and the recent earning of defensive end Nathan Explosion is additional cause for concern. Explosion has over 1100 TPE, but regresses for the first time this offseason and they’ve only posted once in the past few weeks. In general I think less active players are less likely to fight regression, so Colorado needs another defensive lineman in this draft to partner Explosion and the other end, Aidan Hutchinson Jr., but would also like a second lineman in this class or next to eventually take over from Explosion. They have the draft capital to select plenty of rookies in this class, so I think they're sure to take a lineman with one of their early picks.
It’s not clear to me from the roster construction whether the Yeti intend to play a 4-3 or a 3-4, but either way they’ll only have two linebackers next season so should add another. Colorado drafted Waylen Greene second overall in the S39 draft, and he’s the team’s top LB by TPE ahead of S37 draftee Grayson Yates. Yates remains active, but earns relatively modestly. Colorado drafted Jason Waterfalls tenth overall ten seasons ago, and this figures to be his last season with the team as he’s facing a significant amount of regression. Colorado could potentially play one of their defensive backs at this position in a base formation, but either way the team will be forced to draft a linebacker or sign an inactive free agent here.
Colorado’s secondary has a lot of TPE, but it’s not the youngest unit in the league. Anthony Stark plays CB1, and having been drafted in S35 he’ll regress for the first time at the end of S41. CB2 Cedric Wilkins II will lose more than 300 TPE to regression, which will knock him below 600 and cause him to compete with current CB3 Cob Corning for the starting job – the player acquired in one of the trades with Baltimore mentioned above. Corning was also drafted in S35, and with him being inactive he’ll be a viable corner for a much shorter time than Stark. The Yeti should draft someone at CB, send them down to the DSFL for a season and have them ready to take over from Wilkins II in S42 – otherwise this unit is going to start deteriorating rapidly.
At safety, the team fields Cross-Eriksen and Inspector Gadget. Cross-Eriksen will regress for the first time this offseason, but is one of the team’s GMs and will peak at close to 1600 TPE – so I expect them to stick around for a while. Inspector Gadget is a few seasons younger, drafted in S37, so I don’t see Colorado drafting a safety unless it’s very late and they’ve addressed the far more urgent positions above. There are a couple of safeties who are active, but not earning as much TPE as the top prospects at the position - making them a good send-down candidate.
Finally, kicker Orlando Doom has a great name and at 672 TPE, is a top-5 kicker by TPE. The Yeti don’t need a kicker.
Sarasota Sailfish (4th place, 8-7-1)Needs: WR, LB, S
Wants: RB, DL, CB
Top 5 picks: S41 R1, S41 R2, S41 R3, S41 R4 (from Baltimore), S41 R4
I repeatedly felt sorry for Sarasota throughout S41, as I felt they were better than their record (as their +136 point differential suggested). S39 Most Outstanding Player Carter Knight has played his last game for the team and has announced his retirement, meaning the team’s starting quarterback in S41 will be current London Royal Willier Miller, who was drafted fifth overall in the S39 draft. Like with the other teams starting new QBs, I think the goal should be surrounding them with well-matched talent.
Sarasota’s running back position frames this dilemma well: RB1 (and RB2, and RB3 as he’s the only one on the roster) Pete Zuh is one of the league’s better backs, and finished with over 1900 total yards in S40. Unfortunately for Sarasota, he’s 228 TPE (more than a whole season of earning) behind the class leader in his draft class (S36). As Miller approaches his peak, Zuh will be a low-end RB1 or high-end RB2, and given the importance of the position I think the Sailfish should look to provide Miller with a better RB1 during his peak. If you take one now, he peaks shortly after Miller - and Miller will get the benefit of Zuh carrying the workload early in his career before the S41 draftee takes over in Miller’s prime. I’m considering this a want rather than a need as it’s something that would maximise Sarasota’s competitiveness as opposed to something holding them back.
When I glanced over the team’s prior to beginning this mini-series, I thought Sarasota seemed like a team that might want a WR3 but was relatively set at the position. Since I started writing, they traded their highest-TPE wide receiver to San Jose in a trade I covered a little in the ASFC needs article. As a result, their receiver room is now Johnny Blaze Jr., an ageing Nick Kaepercolin Jr., and a retiring Cornelius King III. Kaepercolin Jr. will regress to below 500 TPE, and it will be extra hard to replace him due to the apparent requirement that you be the second or third of your name in order to play wide receiver for Sarasota... wait, perhaps that’s why Sconnie McSix was traded? Regardless, Kaepercolin Jr. has one more season left in him and King III has zero more seasons left in him so the Marlins Sailfish should take a receiver in this class and a receiver in the next draft, unless they fancy double-dipping on the wide receiver talent available in S41.
Sarasota has two tight ends on the roster, and Lucius Salem is the league’s TE1 by TPE. Salem regresses for the first time this offseason, but will remain one of the league’s top TEs for a few seasons. The team also rosters blocking tight end Bastian Weichselbraun, but at 164 TPE he’s actually a worse blocker than Salem and as an impending free agent, presumably will not be re-signed. I think Sarasota can wait to draft a pure TE, and focus on other positions.
The Sailfish have three human offensive linemen, but unfortunately they’re all regressing. S28’s Stumpy Jones and S32’s Troy Barnes are the oldest and looked like potential cap casualties to me until Sarasota agreed to re-sign Barnes, who’s currently set to regress to below 400 TPE. The youngest of the group, Dane Johnson Jr., experiences regression for the first time this offseason. He’s due to regress from 805 TPE so is clearly far from a max earner, but will provide cap relief for at least a couple more seasons. Sarasota is historically one of the league’s more competitive teams and is top 5 in TPE pre-regression, so I think they’d like to add another lineman here to continue benefitting from the cap relief they’ll need in future seasons to sustain success. It’s not a priority though, and the team has some holes on defence that need filling more than they need cap space right now.
The highlights of Sarasota’s defensive line is GM player Harley Andrews, and last season the team used it’s first-round draft pick on defensive end Ginand Toxic. Toxic’s earning isn’t elite – he’s 22nd in the S40 class in TPE – but it’s good enough for defensive line, and the pair are joined by two older players that Sarasota will look to phase out in the near future. Mrs. "Stacks" McHits has 543 TPE, but she’s the oldest of the group and will soon lose 30% of that to regression. Mistah Freddy is the only true defensive tackle, and is inactive at 414 TPE – but doesn’t begin regression until next offseason and will be better than most rookies until then. I think this is a position Sarasota will wait until next draft to address as they’ve re-signed McHits and Freddy for S41, but if they find a defensive line prospect they like in this draft they’ll happily take them.
The linebacker core is led by 1140 TPE Aqeel Steele (great name), but he stopped posting for reasons unknown (to me) last month and so has been brought back on an IA contract. Another GM player, Fronky Fresh, provides a relatively sure thing at the position for seasons to come but there’s nothing else to be excited about. S30’s don’t draft was drafted against his will a long time ago, and so faces 50% regression while current LB4 Justin Cloud is 302 TPE and has been retained on another IA deal. A max-earning rookie could start for this team, and as they’d be an immediate improvement there’s no reason to wait until S42 for don’t draft to be formally executed by the regression department before addressing the linebacker position. Sarasota should draft one in S41, and I’m sure they will.
CB1 King Zeus has continued to earn well despite regression, recovering most of the TPE stolen from him last offseason before he regresses again shortly. The S33 corner plays across from Dip Dhillon, who’s considered inactive but is young and has 624 TPE so he’s a relatively competent CB2. Calvin Hobbes played the nickel role in S40, but he’s inactive and was drafted in S30 so won’t be a viable starter next season. His contract has been allowed to expire. I think they’d rather select a safety to play the nickel role next season though, because…
These safeties are old. Spike Daniels and Rocky Rhoads were drafted in S31 and S32 respectively, meaning they’ll lose a boatload of TPE this offseason (40% for Daniels and 30% for Rhoads). I think they should take one this draft, as needing to take two next season would be a tough position to be in. As I’ve mentioned throughout this roster summary though, the top safeties in this class are great, but there’s just not that many of them. Sarasota could be another team relying on a rookie to switch positions.
Finally, Sarasota kicker Swantavius King has the biggest, most accurate leg in the league. There’s no reason for this team to consider drafting a kicker.
Cape Town Crash (3rd place, 10-6)Needs: LB, CB
Wants: OL, DL
Top 5 picks: S41 R1, S41 R2, S41 R3 (from New York), S41 R3, S41 R4
Rookie quarterback Creg Jerrith IV began his career as the Crash’s starter in S40, and having been drafted in S37 the team won’t be looking at drafting a replacement for some time. This team looks well set-up for the future, with an astonishing seven active prospects currently sent down to the DSFL. They have a full complement of draft picks plus New York’s round 3, giving them a third top-30 pick despite being a playoff team.
Cape Town will call up at least one of their two DSFL running backs in S41, with last season’s 35th overall pick Nakiri Ayame practically certain to be called up. Ayame will back up Jarvis Harbinger-Marjin, who was drafted in S36 and is currently the league’s RB4 by TPE. Harbinger-Marjin is a power back, so expect speed back Ayame to see some time in the slot and on third down. This team is set at the position for a while, even if S39 draftee Malik Jordan doesn’t make it out of the DSFL.
Two of the team’s currently rostered wide receivers will be regressing this offseason, and one is retiring as a result. Cape Town prepared for that last draft, though, with the selection of Kairo Knight at seventh overall. Knight will play WR3 behind the regressing Erwin Kemp (who’ll still start the season with at least 850 TPE) and S36 draftee Derrick Prince, who’ll compete with Kemp for the WR1 role. Cape Town also drafted Mike Ehrmantraut in the middle of last season’s 2nd round, and while he’s not earning as much as Knight he can be the one to replace Kemp when regression starts to take his toll. If Cape Town wants to build a particularly strong receiver room they could take one of this class’ many talented receivers as they could easily outearn Ehrmantraut, but receiver definitely isn’t a need as that’d represent a relatively marginal upgrade.
Tight end American Boot is the league’s TE4 by TPE, and as an S35 draftee he’s still a season away from regression. The team did also select vertical threat Jake Basinger in Round 3 of the S40 draft, but he’s since gone inactive and so is unlikely to ever be called up. Cape Town could’ve considered getting tricky and drafting a blocking TE, but there’s only one in this class and he’s 80 TPE. The Crash can probably ignore tight end too.
Finally, a position where Cape Town might look to draft someone! Despite already having two offensive linemen on the roster, this is a team I think should take a good look at the users in this offensive line class. Cape Town has eleven players from the S35 and S36 classes approaching their peak, and several will need to be re-signed for more than they’re earning currently. Swantavius Payne, the commissioner’s player, will be good long into regression but the inactive Pilot RedSun is only 404 TPE and regresses next offseason. It’d be wise to select another lineman to offer cap relief in place of or as well as RedSun.
Turning to the defensive side of the ball, there’s some turnover on the line as defensive end Able Archer is retiring at the end of the season. Archer has played alongside GM player Christian Marciano, drafted in S33, and Udo E Beaty, who was drafted in S36. Marciano will regress again during the offseason, but will still start S41 at or around 1000 TPE. Beaty is a steady earner who doesn’t regress for a while. Cape Town drafted defensive end Ryan Lawrence 33rd overall last offseason, and he’ll be called up to take Archer’s place. With Marciano regressing I think the team could consider taking another swing at DL, given that S39 draftee Lenny Lyons Jr. has been overtaken by Lawrence in TPE and might not make it to the big league.
Linebacker represents the team’s first true need, but the situation is better than it looks on first glance. Barry Badman leads the way as an almost-1200 TPE LB who’s not yet reached regression, but his three sidekicks are Old, Older and Bad. Old (Doc Fireball) is due to regress below 400 TPE, and Older (Dominos Pizzaman) has announced his retirement – meaning Cape Town needs a new starter in S41 and likely another new starter in S42 to replace Fireball. Bad (Haloick Oasis) is also a candidate to be replaced by a rookie, as he’s inactive with 340 TPE. Arriving from the DSFL to replace Pizzaman is the other GM player, Kenny McCormick – who has more TPE than it looks due to him having decided to punish his updater with a giant update once he leaves the DSFL. The team should be looking to draft replacements for both Fireball and Oasis though, so expect at least one linebacker to be selected by Cape Town.
Conversely, the cornerback position looks a bit worse than the TPE suggests. The team’s CB1 is quarterback-turned-cornerback Bageshwari Singh, and Singh is both facing regression and hasn’t earned any TPE since making that switch. I still occasionally see him on discord, so he strikes me as a potential candidate to retire and recreate in the near future, and it doesn’t appear he’ll fight regression. CB2 Art Deco was drafted in S35 and is over 500 TPE behind the class lead, but he is still active. One of these spots will eventually be filled by nickelback Eric Belmont, but the S38 player isn’t the best earner himself and this is one of the few positions Cape Town doesn’t have someone stashed in the DSFL. This is the team’s next biggest need.
The landscape is much better at safety, where the team has a pair of S36 players. Rival rap artists LCC and Alikh’s players are a couple hundred TPE apart, but they’re both still 2 seasons away from regression and are one of the league’s better safety duos. There’s no need to draft a safety here, not that there are enough to go around.
Finally, Crash kicker Patrick Cunningham is a serviceable starter who’s not regressing. This isn’t a priority either.
Chicago Butchers (2nd place, 12-4)Needs: LB, CB, S
Wants: RB, OL
Top 5 picks: S41 R1, S41 R2, S41 R3, S41 R4 (from San Jose), S41 R4
Chicago are arguably this season’s Cinderella story, as journeyman quarterback Adrian St. Christmas has taken a second consecutive team to 12+ wins and a playoff berth. St. Christmas will likely step aside to bring good tidings and festive spirit to a new team, and the Butchers will call up GM player Painted Penguin to play quarterback in S41. The team will likely go through a short transitional period, as three players are retiring and both Octavio Pérez and Apollo Program are entering free agency. Including Painted, the team has seven currently active players in the DSFL so there will be a lot of new faces on the team in S41.
...But, probably not at running back. I’ve seen Lalu Muhammad Zohri described as everyone’s favourite inactive running back due to his fantasy prowess, but in S41 he’ll regress and take an RB2 role behind S39 draftee Frank Dux. Dux ranks 4th in the class in TPE, and is capable of handling a bigger workload while Painted Penguin adjusts to the pace of the ISFL. Chicago will probably be happy with the Dux/Zohri pairing for S41, but if they fall in love with an RB in this class they could draft one to replace Zohri in S42.
WR1 Austin Morley is one of my favourite players to watch in the ISFL, due to being the league’s only high-TPE Return Specialist. Octavio Pérez, who has been playing with the team since a mid-season trade with Berlin, will be testing free agency this offseason and some of Chicago’s plans for this draft will depend on the possibility of re-signing Pérez. From talking with one of their GMs in scouting, it seems they’re planning as if Pérez is leaving, and seeing his return as a potential bonus rather than something to rely on. WR3 Vincent Sharpei Jr. has announced his retirement, so the team will call up at least one of its three DSFL wide receivers to replace him – last season’s first-round draft pick Jimmy Ryder has the most TPE, and is most likely to get the call. Plant Based and Malcolm Grimes are currently set to fight for the WR3 spot, but neither are max earners and so the team could look to draft one of this class’ many wide receivers to fill out the unit. Chicago has some extra draft capital if they want to consider a plan like this.
Tight end Walter McKinley has been great for my fantasy team, and Chicago’s season reception-leader is the league’s TE5 by TPE. Drafted in S36, McKinley isn’t due to regress for a while and Chicago doesn’t need to do much future planning at the position even with S39 draft pick Hex Amofah becoming inactive.
Chicago’s lone human offensive lineman, Theo AwardsSystemIsBad, will regress to a little over 300 TPE and may soon disappear along with the awards system they once rallied against. The Butchers have a lot of money coming off their books and so don’t need an offensive lineman urgently, but this class’ selection of moderate-earning offensive lineman could match nicely with one of Chicago’s mid-round picks.
The Butchers could return the same defensive line in S41, as defensive tackle Joseph Reed and end Xavier Valorian are both above-average starters drafted in S36. They’re joined on the line by tackle Franklin Turtle, who will regress for a third time but will still have as much TPE as a max-earning rookie post-regression. The team drafted Action Bronson with one of the final picks in the S40 draft at 49th overall, and Bronson now has 234 TPE so may develop into a player capable of replacing Turtle. If the team thinks otherwise, there’s some talent in this class that they could select to compete with him – but it’s not a need unless they’re certain Bronson’s development will slow.
Chicago are another team that will definitely draft a linebacker, as two of the aforementioned retirements are at the position. Three of the team’s four LBs will regress this offseason, and the other was recently signed to an IA contract having not posted since January. S34’s Rumble Ronson will remain a useful starter for at least a couple of seasons, and the IA contract went to Brian Duke, who is a below-average, but not awful starter, but Chicago needs to replace the two retirements: long-time Butcher Dexter Hall and Sakeem Webb. I think it’s more likely the team drafts one LB and signs a stopgap for another spot, but if they find two linebackers they like then the team could conceivably draft and start them both.
Quendyn Quarterstorm gives the team a reliable CB1 who won’t regress until after S43, but he’s the only CB currently contracted to the team next season. There will likely be a bidding war in free agency for CB2 Apollo Program, as there was last offseason, and so it’s unclear whether they’ll return to the team. CB3 Jonathan Altidor is inactive, and could be replaced by send down Bobby Steel, but Steel currently has less TPE than Altidor and only does a curated selection of the TPE opportunities available to him. The team should select a CB in this class either way, as Program doesn’t appear to be a stable long-term option and the team needs one opposite Quarterstorm. If they’re able to retain Program, then the team still gets an upgrade at CB3.
The only safety currently on the ISFL roster is Dee Walt, and he’ll lose half his TPE this offseason (putting him below 400). He might be joined in the defensive backfield by Xavier Frost, drafted in Round 3 by the Butchers last offseason. LANEFROST hasn’t posted since signing his rookie deal, but as discussed throughout these articles there’s only two max-earning safeties and two more (non-suspended) earning at a decent rate. Unless Chicago can grab Mary Marie or Rico Savage, they’ll likely be relying on a position switch or looking ahead to the next draft.
Kicker David Doug was only drafted in S38, so is likely to retain kicking duties for a while unless Chicago is particularly taken to a kicking prospect’s personality.
Yellowknife Wraiths (1st place, 12-4)Needs: LB, CB, S
Wants: WR, DL
Top 5 picks: S41 R1, S41 R2, S41 R3, S41 R4, S41 R5
The strength of Yellowknife’s roster can be best-characterised by the fact that the Wraiths won 12 games while fielding the quarterback with the least applied TPE in the league. Absolute Unit, Arkz’s player, switched from defensive tackle to quarterback following the departure of Adrian St. Christmas in free agency. As a result, he started the season with less than 600 applied TPE, the remainder locked away until this offseason and next under the new (to me) position switch rules. Naturally, the Wraiths then scored as many points as any other NSFC team and won the division. Not bad. As an S36 draftee, Yellowknife don’t need to think about drafting Unit’s replacement yet, and besides, it’d feel exceptionally cruel to do that after their first season of QB play.
Kumquat Archipelago and Adebayo Akinfenwa have nearly as much TPE as they have letters in their respective names, which is a clever way of saying they are the league’s highest-TPE backfield. The pair combined for over 3600 scrimmage yards last season, and S41 is due to be their peak season as both backs were drafted in S35. There will be a time when this backfield needs to be refreshed, but I don’t think it’s in this draft.
While Archipelago is often used as a receiver, the team’s actual receiver core could do with some investment. Calvin Spiff is the team’s WR1 by TPE, and S41 will be his final season before regression. Bernd D. Brot, meanwhile, will regress for a third time and hasn’t earned any TPE in the last month. Regression is due to take them to around 600 TPE, and as they’ve been logging into the site I think they’re a candidate to retire and recreate after the Ultimus. S39 29th overall pick Branden Rojas has done well to make it to 253 TPE given their TPE at the time of the draft, but the top receivers in the S41 class have already surpassed that and so the Wraiths could select an immediate upgrade who’ll be ready to take on a limited role now and/or replace Brot in S42.
I don’t think Yellowknife are likely to draft a tight end. As mentioned above, they tend to use Archipelago as their WR3, and Blocking TE Detective Crashmore doesn’t see many targets. The Wraiths ranked 12th in receptions by tight ends in S40, and having drafted Crashmore just last offseason I don’t see Yellowknife restructuring their offence around a second tight end.
The Wraiths ranked #2 in total team TPE prior to regression, and so benefit from spending $6m per season on a pair of active human offensive linemen instead of more on two worse bots. J.T. Kurbis has over 1000 TPE and was drafted in S36, while Dusty Wilson was drafted a season later in the smaller S37 class. Both are good (but not max-)earners who will continue to provide cap savings for several seasons, and don’t need replacing. Yellowknife could look to supplement the offensive line further, but with a lot of the defence regressing I think the time to do that has passed and that the team would be better off investing draft capital on some young defenders.
The headline TPE numbers on this defence are gaudy, but the defence is beginning to get old in places. Defensive end Daron Arnold is the league’s top-TPE end, but he regresses for a second time this offseason and so will cede that crown to a young player. As long as TubaDeus is happy to fight regression he’ll remain a top starter for a few more seasons, so despite his age his spot on the line doesn’t need addressing yet. Nose tackle Mo Gago is the (joint) top earner from S39, and should lock down the position for a long time. The lone weak spot is inactive 277 TPE DL Teddy Rhinoback, who initially looks like a priority to replace until you examine the rest of the defensive side of the ball. A lot of GMs seem to prefer 3-4 based on my scouting conversations and I think Yellowknife would still have more TPE next season playing a 3-4, so I don’t think the team does something tricky and drafts a DL to play alongside Rhinoback next season.
Prior to regression, Yellowknife’s three linebackers average over 1100 TPE, but sadly for the Canadian outfit one LB is retiring and the other two are regressing. The retirement, Jack McPherson, was only drafted in S35 and so his retirement may have made things a bit difficult for the team. Zephyr "Tater" GreyWolf is the oldest, and has the least TPE – I imagine that last season’s second-round selection Toad Wananapaoa was drafted as his potential replacement rather than one for McPherson. Wananapaoa only ranks 35th in the class in 274 TPE, though, meaning it’s far from a like-for-like switch as McPherson departs. The third member of the current group, Kahn Cussion, has 1318 TPE so is not in any urgent need of replacing – but like Arnold, he regresses for a second time this offseason. Due to the importance of the position I think it’s more important that Yellowknife drafts a linebacker than a defensive lineman, as I think you can hide a lower-TPE DL more easily. I’ve also made the assumption that Yellowknife continues to play a safety at LB where required, as Arizona do.
Cornerback is a similar story, where Kalam Mekhar and Simon The Frog form a very strong, but slightly old duo. After regression, Mekhar will make his way back up from around 850 TPE while The Frog hasn’t earned TPE since 2022 and so will be a hit a little harder. This is The Frog’s first dose of regression and so he’ll be a competent starter in S41 and the team could survive playing him in S42, but the Wraiths need to draft a new CB duo in the next few drafts and it makes the following drafts easier to navigate if the team selects one sooner rather than later. I don’t think this defence can remain the force it currently is without good CB play, and so I think one of Yellowknife’s first two picks is likely to be spent on this position.
Yellowknife’s top two safeties are both regressing, but as they’ll be picking outside the top 10 I expect Mary Marie and Rico Savage to both be selected several picks before the Wraiths are first on the clock. Sam Sung and Jay Spears were drafted three seasons apart in S34 and S31 respectively, and while Sung will still top 600 TPE, Spears will dip below 400. Their current third safety, Gore Done Ram Say, will likely be thrust into a starting role ahead of Spears and due to the lack of safety prospects available I think a rookie from this class will switch and be sent down next season, or a player already on the roster will switch ahead of S42.
The final position covered in this 15,000+ word behemoth is Yellowknife's kicker, Double Doink. Sarah's player was drafted in S33 so will regress down to around 700 TPE, but that's still enough to be one of the ISFL's better kickers. Yellowknife can continue to rely on Doink for the foreseeable future.
That's it, then. I cut some corners writing about Baltimore, but across these two articles I've covered just about every position on every ISFL roster, and how it'll affect the team's draft plans this offseason. Thank you to everyone who's read some or all of this! <3
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[OPTION]S25 (PHI): 16 GP, 67 tackles, 4 INTs, 13 PDs, 1 TD
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[OPTION]S25 (PHI): 16 GP, 67 tackles, 4 INTs, 13 PDs, 1 TD
[OPTION]S26 (OCO): 16 GP, 68 tackles, 1 TFL, 1 sack, 2 INTs, 10 PDs
[OPTION]S27 (OCO): 16 GP, 116 tackles, 4 INTs, 23 PDs, 1 TD
[OPTION]S28 (OCO): 16 GP, 84 tackles, 1 FF, 1 FR, 3 INTs, 20 PDs, 1 TD
[OPTION]S29 (OCO): 16 GP, 99 tackles, 3 FF, 1 FR, 5 INTs, 23 PDs, 1 TD
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[OPTION]Drafted 35th Overall by Myrtle Beach in the S21 DSFL Draft
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[OPTION]S21 DSFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S21 DSFL Defensive Back of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]Drafted 4th Overall by Philadelphia in the S22 ISFL Draft
[OPTION]S23 ISFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S23 ISFL Cornerback of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S23 ISFL Defensive Performance of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S24 ISFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S24 ISFL Cornerback of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S26 ISFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S26 ISFL Returner of the Year Nominee
[OPTION]S29 ISFL Pro Bowl Selection
[OPTION]S29 ISFL Cornerback of the Year Nominee
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