*****The Jared Wiley Thread*****

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by JPH83

I agree with Duncan. I quite like Kollman explaining the xs and os, but man he's an awful evaluator, and it's not just the Chiefs. He might be the only person worse at evaluating WRs than me.

Also agree with DJ re "steals" often not being. I'm pretty excited about Wiley because we'll use him better than most other teams. But I think draft steals normally are the result of one of two things. There's character concerns and one team says "f*** it" and gets lucky, or teams pass on a guy because they've been used in a certain way and teams don't trust they can do anything else. Maybe Kelce is the former and Kittle the latter.

3) Health. The Trey Smith scenario.

As for Wiley - I think you got it exactly right in that the vast majority of 'steals' are simply a guy who fits the scheme and gets coached into it.

In the end, draft 'steals' are almost always health risks that work out or scheme fit guys. There are very few times that one team (and fewer times that some asshole with a Podcast) simply identifies a talent on the 3rd day that every single other team in the NFL missed through several rounds.