It can be tricky to evaluate rookies as they roll through their first year in the league.
Small sample sizes can breed results that aren’t exactly in line with a player’s performance, and a few hot games may present a budding star when a player’s profile otherwise suggests a rotation player. Fail to take the entire body of work into account, and you may enter Year 2 with an obscured vision of a player’s future.
We’re beginning to get a more clear picture of the 2021 class’s future with fewer than two months left in the regular season.