Preparing for draft day might be the single most important task that a GM has. These young players will soon be the cornerstones, the foundation, for the team in a few years. Picking the right guys on draft day is a daunting task, who will bust, who will boom? Who is injury prone, who will come off an old injury and shake the world of football upside down? As a GM, I'm holed up in my office with one thing on my mind, film, film, and more film! Combine stats can be iffy to judge a player off of, but tape doesn't lie. Looking at a box score is great, but you can't see the full story behind a sheet of numbers. Watching film allows you to see past the numbers and get a better look at what any given player is doing. Some players have that X factor, a Je ne sais quoi, that you can't see from ink on a page, that you can only see by going play after play, game after game studying a player. That's how I find my talent. I look at players that the stats don't do justice for, who other teams pass over for somebody with flashier statistics. It only takes one sleeper pick to turn a team from good to great, great to elite. One sleeper from a quiet town somewhere in Nowhere USA to become the spark on a team that helps make the final push for the ultimate goal of any NSFL team, the Ultimus Trophy.
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