NFL.com analyst Lance Zierlein has started pumping out his annual NFL Draft profiles, wherein he provides an overview of most incoming players, together with an analysis which includes a summary of the player’s strengths, weaknesses, a bottom-line conclusion and, in many cases, a pro comparison.
Few (if any) football resources regularly systematize the process of summarizing and comparing players in this way, so I’m always particularly interested in who Lance sees in whom. His comparisons are only the musings of a solitary, mortal man, so read them as if they were flattering text messages from an unknown number.