And now for some research:
Round 1
*3 Treon Patrick Browns 58 rec 1173 yards 8 td
*7 Bryant Ford Panthers 54 rec 1382 yards 18 TD
*11 Corion Stephens 94 rec 1211 11 TD
*17 Jonathan Miller Buccaneers 58 rec 953 yards 5 TD
*18 Ben Phillips Dolphins 24 rec 337 yards 2 TD
*21 Xavier Waters Rams 50 rec 614 yards 5 TD
*32 Joshuan Newson 49ers 46 rec 817 yards 13 TD
Round 2
10 Dixon Pierce Eagles 23 rec 376 yards 3 TD
*15 Antwan Barr Lions 61 rec 991 yards 9 TD
*17 Corey Henderson Buccaneers 48 rec 824 7 TD
27 Derrick Brailsford Broncos 27 rec 613 yards 7 TD
*28 William Mumphrey Raiders 0 rec 0 yards 0 TD
29 Craig Ogletree Texans 22 rec 408 yards 6 TD
Round 3
31 Dextrell Bashum Bills 24 rec 500 yards 6 TD
Round 4
Round 5
6 Larry Cooksey Ravens 3 rec 117 yards 1 TD
10 Kody Thompson Redskins 35 rec 558 1 TD
11 Kenny Timm Seahawks 124 rec 2553 15 TD
12 Kenneth Welsh 49ers 2 rec 18 yards 0 TD
31 Octivious Smith Bills 0 rec 0 yards 0 TD
Round 6
22 Yakov Brown Saints 25 rec 398 yards 22 TD
Round 7
4 Deangelo Montgomery Cowboys 24 rec 267 yards 2 TD
5 Rodney Smith Patriots 4 rec 57 yards 1 TD
7 Farrington Ruel Redskins 5 rec 123 yards 0 TD
21 Andrew Apo Rams 20 rec 331 yards 3 TD
UDFA
Trey Glass Broncos 85 rec 1880 yards 19 TD
Maurice Leopard Rams 134 rec 2839 yards 30 TD
Darian Alberry Falcons 14 rec 197 yards 1 TD
*="Spreadsheet" guy
I was thinking about this the other night and decided to do some research, obviously the stats aren't 100% equal sample sizes as some dudes teams haven't played as many games so if people want I can rerun this at the end of the season.
A whopping 7 WR were taken in the first round. Every single one of them is on the dreaded/fabled spread sheet. 4 of the 5 most productive WRs from the first draft were the first 4 WR off the board, Treon Patrick has been injured a bunch but still managed some pretty good numbers. Ben Phillips for whatever reason has had less passes thrown his way than any other first round WR from that first draft.
The second rounders don't look that terrible either, with the exception of William Mumphrey who has yet to catch a pass in Oakland. For the record, I actually predicted Mumphrey would win AFC OROTY!
Things are uninteresting until we hit the 5th round where Kenny Timm was picked. 138 players were picked before Kenny Timm, including 16 other Wide Receivers. He has 30 more catches than the next closest guy from the same draft and nearly double the receiving yards of the next closest guy.
Of course for as ridiculous as Kenny Timm has been we have the UDFAs where Trey Glass and Maurice Leopard reside. Leopard has an obscene 30 TDs and nearly 3000 yards receiving since entering the league, and oh yeah he was the third receiver picked up by the Rams.
While the "spreadsheet" has received a lot of flack for potentially upsetting the balance of the draft (and admittedly not undeservedly so) it seems like EA kind of fucked things up by putting super rookies in the UDFA pool. I was gonna do a comparison between Leopards initial ratings and Treon Patricks but sadly the spreadsheet isn't actually a spreadsheet so I have no idea what Treon Patrick's initial ratings looked like.
What I can offer is this:
Initial ratings:
UDFA Maurice Leopard - 87 CTH, 76 CIT, 89 SPC, 85 RLS, 81 RTE, 98 SPD
5th Kenny Timm 86 CTH 70 CIT 85 SPC 80 RLS 67 RTE 99 SPD 97 JMP 23 AWR
Current ratings:
1st Treon Patrick 83 CTH 70 CIT 88 SPC 77 RLS 87 RTE 97 SPD 89 JMP
UDFA Gary Hagan 83 CTH 81 CIT 90 SPC 83 RLS 81 RTE 99 SPD 89 JMP
Even after almost 2 full seasons of development, Treon Patrick is still worse than Maurice Leopard was as a rookie in almost every category and not really better than Gary Hagan an UDFA from this past off season.
And if you want to feel really sick:
Maurice Leopard 87 CTH 88 CIT 89 SPC 89 RTE 90 RLS 98 SPD 90 JMP
Kenny Timm 86 CTH 82 CIT 85 SPC 88 RLS 83 RTE 99 SPD 97 JMP
Trey Glass 6 CTH 84 CIT 69 SPC 75 RLS 90 RTE 99 SPD 82 JMP
That's the current ratings for Timm and Leopard both of whom pretty much destroy Treon Patrick in every category.
Now, I feel Timm is one thing because he was at least in the draft and everyone had an equal chance to scout him and draft him. But its absolutely stupid that guys like Hagan and Leopard exist.
Anywho, overall point wasn't really about the "spreadsheet" but more so to show guys like Leopard, Hagan and Glass are really the bigger bullshit and its too bad EA Sports is in Austin so that I won't be there to fix this shit for them.
