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Mock Draft Tips: Do you have enough assets to trade up? And should you!?

As part of an occasional series, Fanspeak will offer tips and best practices for its wildly popular and first-of-its-kind On The Clock draft simulator. Today’s topic: What it takes to trade up in the draft. You covet Isaiah Simmons. After watching the Clemson junior dominate opposing defenses the past three seasons, the thought of him…

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Mock Draft Tips: When best player available is the right – and the wrong – draft strategy

As part of an occasional series, Fanspeak will offer tips and best practices for its wildly popular and first-of-its-kind On The Clock draft simulator. Today’s topic: Is taking the BPA approach the best way to draft? Those who can’t get enough of Fanspeak’s On The Clock draft simulator have no doubt run into this situation…

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Mock Draft Tips: Making the case for and against drafting for position of need

As part of an occasional series, Fanspeak will offer tips and best practices for its wildly popular and first-of-its-kind On The Clock draft simulator. Today’s topic: How do you address glaring needs on your team in the draft? Smart teams use free agency to fill in the gaps where needed. That way, there are no…

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Mock Draft Tips: The pros and cons of trading down

As part of an occasional series, Fanspeak will offer tips and best practices for its wildly popular and first-of-its-kind On The Clock draft simulator. Today’s topic: The good and bad when it comes to trading down. See if this scenario sounds familiar. Your team desperately needs a player at a certain position. This player either…

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Mock Draft Tips: How to set up your customized On The Clock big board like a pro in 8 steps

As part of an occasional series, Fanspeak will offer tips and best practices for its wildly popular and first-of-its-kind On The Clock draft simulator. Today’s topic: How to assign a numeric ranking to each player when setting up a customized big board. Fanspeak’s On the Clock draft simulator offers a unique function for the hard-core…

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Teams pulling scouts, coaches from road, multiple prospect visits canceled

In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, several NFL teams have suspended travel for coaches and scouts, players are canceling workouts and college teams are deciding whether to still hold their respective Pro Days. However, the NFL intends to start the new league year Wednesday, March 18, which means – for the time being, at…

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Pro Days continue for Clemson, Oregon; Michigan, Penn State cancels its events

The pro days for Clemson, Oregon, Nebraska and Princeton carried on as scheduled Thursday, while the status of the Southern Illinois event was unknown as of 3 p.m. EST. Tulsa was set to move Thursday’s Pro Day off-campus. All remaining pro days, however, are in doubt as travel restrictions and responses to the coronavirus pandemic…

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Shenault, Murray, Biadasz miss their pro days as they recover from injury

Several of the top prospects at Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Colorado did not participate in their school’s respective pro day as they recover from injury. Oklahoma linebacker Kenneth Murray (6-foot-2, 241) suffered a minor hamstring injury while running the 40-yard dash at the Combine. He still managed to run a 4.52-second 40 before leaving with the…

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Colorado LB Davion Taylor runs blistering 40 at Buffs’ Pro Day

With top prospect Laviska Shenault sitting out Colorado’s Pro Day while recovering from surgery, it was linebacker Davion Taylor who stole the show. Taylor (6-0, 228) ran the 40-yard dash in a time of 4.39 seconds to go along with a vertical leap of 36 inches, according to The Athletic’s Nicki Jhabvala. Taylor previously ran…

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Is Florida’s C.J. Henderson now considered the second-best CB in the 2020 NFL draft?

Florida junior C.J. Henderson has gone from a potential first-round pick who needs to improve his tackling to the likely second or third cornerback selected and a virtual lock for the first round. And while he still gets nicked in various scouting reports for his tackling, his Combine performance simply underscored just how athletic Henderson…

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