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Star Lotulelei Scouting Report Defensive Lineman Utah

Jesse Bartolis — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:29:08 +0000

This is our Star Lotulelei scouting report. An unknown commodity in much of the draft community and someone I didn’t really notice until it was reported by Bucky Brooks that “With the 2012 defensive tackle class lacking depth, scouts are paying close attention to Utah’s Star Lotulelei*. According to an NFC South scout who recently visited Utah, the 6-3, 325-pound defensive tackle is a rare find. He’s stout against the run, capable of holding the point, while also displaying the athleticism to get after the passer. Although he still needs a little skill refinement, Lotulelei has all of the tools that scouts covet in a dominant interior defender.”

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This scouting report is a work in action because I haven’t seen a ton of footage of him so after I watch more I’ll update this page.

Measurables

6’3 325 pounds

(combine numbes to be posted when they become available)

Stats:

2011:

Tackles
G	Solo	Assisted	Total	Total/G
12	13	24	37	3.08

Tackles For Loss
G	TFL	TFL Yards	TFL/G
12	9.0	26	0.75

Sacks
G	Sacks	Sack Yards	Sacks/G
12	1.5	12	0.13

Misc. Defense
G	Passes Broken Up	QB Hurries	Fumbles Forced	Kicks/Punts Blocked
12	1	0	1	0

2010:

Tackles
G	Solo	Assisted	Total	Total/G
13	7	14	21	1.62

Tackles For Loss
G	TFL	TFL Yards	TFL/G
13	2.5	6	0.19

Sacks
G	Sacks	Sack Yards	Sacks/G
13	0.5	3	0.04

Pros:

Great size…quick off the snap….really good functional strength…anchros well vs the run…has good closing, pursuit speed…

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College Football Game of the Week: #3 TCU @ #5 Utah

jdove — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:00:15 +0000

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Scout Notebook 9/8/10 – Completion % vs Accuracy

joshd — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:31:18 +0000

Welcome to the first edition of the Scout Notebook! At NFLMocks, we wanted to find a way to discuss in more depth how we analyze prospects. Often times people fall in love with the stat sheet (I blame fantasy football, but its too much fun to not play!) or use it as a crutch to support a player. Stats, however, clearly aren’t the only thing it takes to translate to the NFL. Just check the top ten at of any of the individual NCAA records and see how many NFL stars are there, especially the quarterback records. Quarterback is one of the toughest positions to scout and the process for evaluating them is full of conjecture and misinformed opinions because there is so much bias towards stats. Stats can be used in evaluation, but they still have to be applied correctly. Michael Rosenberg of SI.com recently wrote an article where he thrice tried to correlate stats with projected NFL success:

“Accuracy” Locker completed 58 percent of his passes last year — pretty good, but not special. Yardage? He threw for 2800 last year, 33rd in the FBS. Leadership? Locker has yet to post a winning record.”

All three statements use stats incorrectly to identify qualities in a quarterback. He pits accuracy against completion percentage, pure statistical data to future on field performance, and holds intangible qualities directly effect win/loss records. The worst offense would be linking leadership, an intangible quality, to wins on the field. Leadership can only take talent so far and talent can win without it on the field, but we can save that for another time. Today we are going to start at the beginning of this misguided statement and talk about how Accuracy and Completion Percentage are different.

How many times have you seen the quarterback on your team hit a wide receiver in the numbers only for him to bobble it away? A second in the break of their concentration and they miss an easy catch. How many times have you seen your team’s quarterback over or under throw a target, much to your chagrin? Both actions hurt the quarterbacks completion percentage, but only one is the fault of the quarterback. The completion percentage has outside factors weighing in how its formed including the offensive scheme, the quarterback, the receiver, the defense, and the level of talent each of those factors possess. Accuracy, on the other hand, is all about ball placement. Ball placement though, doesn’t appear on any stat sheet and can only be determined by watching a lot game tape on a quarterback in order to judge consistency. This would be a good point to have a visual demonstration that I could have made used Adobe Photoshop or perhaps with some video equipment that would network my DVR and computer to allow me to edit the games I record (Are you reading this Santa?), but for now we will have to use our imaginations for this next example.

To help illustrate what we are talking about, we are going to use a non-football example. Above is an archery target. Sharpshooters to gun range enthusiasts will tell you that the most accurate shots on the target will be centered on the middle or yellow area of the target and get less accurate as they get away from the center. Imagine if you will, two sharpshooters showing off their targets. Each took ten shots, and each hit the target ten times. Shooter A has 5 shots in the blue zone, 3 in the black, and 2 in the red. Shooter B has 5 shots in the red, 3 in the blue and 2 in the yellow. Both shooters had a 100% completion percentage since all ten shots landed on the target, but Shooter B was much more consistent in hitting toward the center of the target and thus more accurate.

Now going back to football, we can replace the color coded target with the receiver’s jersey. The numbers are now the yellow center and passes are considered less accurate as they move away from the numbers into the extremities of the receiver. This is, of course, a very simplistic view because unlike the stationary archery targets, the receivers are nine times out of ten moving and the ball placement must take the coverage into consideration. For example, lets look at the most exciting, but toughest to complete pass: The Long Ball. Here are three examples that I could find on YouTube of accurate down field passes:

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2010 NFL Draft: AFC North Draft Grades

jdove — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:00:44 +0000

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jdove — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:00:26 +0000

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2010 NFL Draft: NFC South Team Grades

jdove — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:42:26 +0000

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Sleeper/Steal Alert: Robert Johnson

jdove — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:00:14 +0000

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College Football Weekly Update: Stanford Does it Again

nflmocks — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:33:49 +0000

Stanford Does it Again (and so does USC)

A week after defeating an Oregon team ranked in the top 10, the Cardinal put a whooping on another top 10 team. This time, the victim was Southern Cal.

Stanford got off to an early 14-0 lead and had a 21-7 lead at halftime. Southern Cal made some big plays in the third quarter to cut the lead to just 28-21, but, Stanford dominated the final quarter, outscoring the Trojans 27-0 in route to a 55-21 victory.

Stanford has moved in the top 20 and is arguably the hottest team in the nation. Meanwhile, Southern Cal’s quest for an eighth straight 11-win season, BCS Bowl bid and top-four finish is all but over. USC is now 4-3 in conference play and is tied for fifth in the Pac-10. Stanford still has a chance at the Rose Bowl while the Trojans may be relegated to the Emerald Bowl.

The most points ever given up by a Pete Carroll-led USC team came three weeks ago when Oregon lit up the Trojans for 47 points. Then, Stanford scored 55 points at USC Saturday. In other words, this is the worst defense that Carroll has had at USC. By far.

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09 Draft Rankings: Ps

Blog Z — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:22:12 +0000

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09 Draft Rankings: Ks

Blog Z — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:21:57 +0000

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