Author: Jake Matson

With Training Camps underway and the inaugural preseason game today, it’s starting to feel like football season. And that means thousands of micro-communities are preparing to reconvene for their own annual holiday: the fantasy draft. The pressurized fun is looming and surely any fantasy player wants to be able to show off their gems on their way to winning their fantasy league. Through training camp reports and analyzing team depth situations, here are five rookies that could be the gem you’re hoping to find and three rookies that will prove to be fool’s gold by season’s end. (A quick note:…

After one week of training camp, is it premature to say the Seahawks have found the successors to one of the greatest defenses in NFL History? Definitely. But the fun of football is that hope is eternal in the month of August. And although Seattle is lacking for bright spots, this roster will remind longtime fans of the early days of the Legion of Boom in 2011. The star of Seahawks camp so far has been rookie cornerback Coby Bryant of Cincinnati. In one of the highlights noted by Seattle Times reporter Gregg Bell, Bryant went one-on-one against 6’7″ Colby…

To the average NFL observer, the idea of the Seahawks not rebuilding seems completely absurd. And there is no shortage of valid reasons why they would feel that way. Seattle moving on from future Hall of Fame quarterback Russell Wilson to a literal punchline in Drew Lock seems like an insurmountable challenge for this team to overcome. But while it’s valid (and fun) to debate about whether the ‘Hawks should be in a rebuild, an equally important question is whether Pete Carroll and John Schneider think they are. Bizarrely, it seems clear that they don’t think of this year as a…

The subpar quarterback class in the 2022 Draft was the ugly elephant in the room for every NFL observer last year. And somehow, the class faired even worse than expected on draft day. No matter, we’ve moved on to previewing a stacked 2023 with Heisman winner Bryce Young and the newest Buckeye star C.J. Stroud. After those two, the real fun begins as scouts try to find the next best quarterback in the 2023 NFL Draft. In the early assessment, there’s very little consensus. This is great news for fans as it adds to the fun of watching these prospects rise…

With a renewed state of upheaval in conference realignment, everyone in college football is asking the same question: who’s next? The sudden and shocking departures of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten once again threw college athletics into a state of disarray. The news came on the heels of last year’s surprising relocation of Texas and Oklahoma into the SEC, which gave way to a short lived “alliance” between the ACC, Big Ten, and Pac-12. The news of USC and UCLA means this alliance is all but dead less than a year after its announcement. So as observers try…