NFL1000: Rookie Review Heading into 2016 Regular Season

September 8, 2016   ·   Doug Farrar   ·   Jump to comments

The draft is the lifeblood of the NFL, and rookies comprise many of the league’s most exciting stories in any NFL season. For every high-picked “draft bust,” there’s a low-picked or undrafted player who will far exceed his preseason projections and become an indispensable part of his team.
There’s a lot to sort out when it comes to rookie performances. How will these young players adapt to the speed, power and complexity of the NFL game? Will they switch positions at the next level? Are they stuck in a loaded depth chart, or is there real opportunity to shine from the start?
This is why the NFL1000 team will be evaluating first-year players separately in our Rookie Review. There’s this article, in which we premiere our grades and evaluative criteria for rookies, and there will be a Rookie Review for every week of the 2016 NFL season, in which you’ll be able to see which rookies are ascending and descending based solely on their perfor...

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