Yeah - I'm basically his size, and no way I'd want someone my size on the Pats. I'll root for him as a little guy (like Brandon Banks when he was on the Skins), but not on the Pats.
Based on your profile pic, I was afraid I might've gone to far - that's why I added the "Lite." Sorry, dude. Just got too crazy.
Random thing I ran into about Kupp from Oct 2019. Makes me feel better about Jameson or Metchie. I remember Welker didn't really miss a beat (although he had Moss and Gronk - Gronk's rookie year which was Welker's 1st year post surgery was the "off" year).
"Cooper Kupp tore his ACL last season and is faster since his recovery.
Kupp studied video of his form to eliminate the imperfections in his stride. Kupp is now between 1.5 miles per hour and two miles per hour faster than he was before his injury.
“It’s a little crazy,” said Dr. Neal ElAttrache, who performed the ACL reconstruction. “We’ve never had this GPS data until the last few years, but I can tell you that’s typically not the way it goes the first year back. He’s surprising everybody.”"
Yeah I'm seeing a lot more speed readings even just from these Senior Bowl practices. Your post inspired me look up how NextGenStats actually measures these things (Zebra Tech). I guess Zebra's also what's used during the Senior Bowl and the practices. I'm gonna take any other tech used (like Alabama Catapult or even what NDSU used) with a grain of salt.
"The tracking system captures player data such as location, speed, distance traveled and acceleration at a rate of 10 times per second, and charts individual movements within inches. "
Continuing to balance innovation with tradition, the NFL has expanded its use of player and ball tracking to capture real-time data for every player — on every play, anywhere on the field.
operations.nfl.com
