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First: The Packers lead the league in both 5-wide and 3-back sets this year. Their offense is all about creating mismatches with alignments, they'll run almost anything out of almost any alignment. Go watch the tape from the Philly playoff game and tell me they're a spread offense. (Hint: You can't, they ran the inverted wishbone like half the game)

Second: Regardless, the spread offenses that are being run in college are not what the Packers and the Patriots for instance do from their spread looks. If colleges were running their spread like the Packers run it scouts would be listing "plays in the spread" in the positives column. Most of your spread WRs can't run a full route tree, your spread QBs are being run from the spread to minimize their deficiencies. Honestly though the biggest reason that the scouts don't like the spread? It makes their job inordinately harder because they have to do even more projecting based on even less.