Positive draft evaluations seem to boil down into two basic schools of thought. Either you’re a player who has the potential to produce highly once you reach the NFL, or you’re a player that already has a resume of high production heading into the pros.
An example of the former would be a player like Utah State quarterback Jordan Love. Love showed worlds of athletic potential on tape, has the prototypical height and weight of a “poster child franchise quarterback” and had a solid NFL Combine to really seal the deal. He’s a player coming into the draft with potential, but one look at Love’s struggling stat sheet from his final college year will show that potential is most of all he has at this point in his career.