HOUSTON -- The Houston Texans beefed up their secondary on the second day of the NFL draft with three picks on Sunday.Houston started the day by drafting Antoine Caldwell, an offensive lineman from Alabama, in the third round with the 77th pick.The v ...
HOUSTON - The Houston Texans addressed their biggest needs in this year's draft, picking up linebacker Brian Cushing in the first round and beefing up their secondary with three picks on Sunday. Houston started the day by drafting Antoine Caldwell, an
Advanced NFL Stats on The Best Drafting Teams Like in Pro Football Reference's measure, Indy runs away with the title.
Back in October, I introduced the Lewin Career Forecast (LCF) to Niners Nation (NN) . To put it mildly, the post stirred up some lively debate, and signaled the beginning of a still-raging internecine battle on NN over the appropriateness of football stat analysis. Just to refresh everyone's memory, the LCF , which was developed by David Lewin of Football Outsiders (FO), predicts a QB's NFL performance based on 2 of his college stats: games started (GS) and completion percentage (COMP%). A cou
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Advanced NFL Stats has continued their series on draft scarcity, this time focusing on linebackers . We've certainly seen the Seahawks build a linebacking corps out of guys drafted after the first round (Julian Peterson is the exception, although the Niners drafted him). Once again, there are graphs that you'll want to take a look at, so make sure you actually click through and follow the link. Remember that this is not a discussion of value, but rather a discussion of success. Firstly, the m
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