Author: Brad McDaniel

POSTS BY brad mcdaniel

We were blessed with a ton of Week 1 depth charts yesterday. I scrolled through them all and tried to capture any notable information. We are still waiting on a few, Georgia, Oklahoma, Michigan, and Michigan State come to mind, but here’s what we know so far.

Before we get to the depth charts, I wanted to point out that not a single true freshman QB has been named the starter yet. You already know about Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, Kyle McCord, and Tyler Buchner. Yesterday, Michigan announced they are going with Cade McNamara, and SMU picked Tanner Mordecai.

August 31, 2021

The Best Receiving Backs in College Football

I wanted to dig into college RBs and find the best returning receiving backs for 2021. Instead of lumping these backs together, or trying to rank them, I attempted to categorize them since they are a little different. Before we get into that, I wanted to mention that there are plenty of players who could have made this article, but I had to draw the line somewhere. So players like Tyler Goodson, Nay’Quan Wright, Kimani Vidal, and Bijan Robinson who did most of their receiving work on screens and dump-offs won’t be included. They are talented in their own right, but I think I found someone better in each category.

August 30, 2021

MY GUYS: 2023 – XXI – McDaniel

Every NFL Draft, there are players that we’ve rooted on for years, sometimes since they were recruits. Maybe they have a year that makes us become so intrigued with their skill set and ability that we begin to label them as “my guys.” In this article, I share those players have I have followed and rooted for in college football. These are the players that come Saturdays; I’m rooting to succeed, and come Sundays, I’m hoping to find in my fantasy lineups. These are “my guys.”

August 24, 2021

College Fantasy Football Team Draft

We first heard this idea on Barton and Bud’s short-lived podcast a while back. Last year, we decided to take the idea and expand on it. We ended up scrapping that idea because of the makeshift college football season, but we didn’t forget about it. Last week, Greg, Kyle, and Brad sat down and knocked out a college football team draft. We each drafted eight teams based on the scoring format below. We’ll keep score during the season and declare a winner in January. With only 4 CFP slots, we had to come up with a strategy to get points in other areas.

August 23, 2021

MY GUYS: 2024 – XXI – McDaniel

August 19, 2021

Devy Watch XXI : Toughest Cuts

One of the most challenging parts of creating this annual guide is trimming the list down to a manageable number of prospects. One of the most significant difficulties we face is watching all of the freshmen that we are assigned. We will gather as much information as possible from each team’s spring practices and make some updates to the overall ranks and add players in line for substantial work this season. In this article series, each team member will outline which players were the toughest omissions they made from 2021 Devy Watch.

August 17, 2021

MY GUYS: 2022 – XXI – McDaniel

August 10, 2021

The Most Important Games for Fringe QBs

I wanted to try to find the most important games for the fringe QBs who are 2022 draft-eligible. Even though they still have questions to answer, we’ve seen enough from Spencer Rattler and Sam Howell on big stages versus big opponents to have a good idea who they are, and 2021 gives us another year of it. Guys like Matt Corral and JT Daniels get another go versus an SEC schedule to prove their mettle. What about a guy like Desmond Ridder, though? He’s getting media/Twitter buzz, but from what I’ve seen, he’s still a project.

July 14, 2021

May Evaluation Period: QB Quinn Ewers

Last week, we introduced you to the current top dual-threat QB in the country. Today, we’ll get to know the top-ranked pro-style QB, Quinn Ewers. Ewers hails from the DFW area in Texas and plays for Southlake Carroll. He was committed to Tom Herman and the Texas Longhorns for a minute before flipping his commitment to Ohio State.

May 13, 2021

Devy Watch XXI: McDaniel

One of the best things about our team is that we have six team members to share ideas with, debate, and get a consensus ranking on players. For the third consecutive year, we decided to break the player pool into specific conferences and divisions last season, with each analyst being responsible for the same group. We believe the continuity in that evaluation is helpful and is aided by our team’s size to test our evaluations and hypotheses against. All of the incoming freshmen are randomly divided up and dispersed to each team member to evaluate. This article will provide a window into each analyst’s minds and processes, and our aim is to better inform the readers about players who had strong feelings about this cycle.

April 7, 2021