Thanks to Kyle Brandt!! Need this said more! The Lazy ingrained comparisons for RB Cam Skattebo + the "Sneaky Athletic" BS
Skatt even sent him a shout-out of THANKS on social-media
NFL Network's Kyle Brandt has something to say about the lazy comparisons surrounding Arizona State running back Cam Skattebo.
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NFL Network’s Kyle Brandt has just about had it when it comes to weak NFL comparisons and the words “sneaky athletic” connected to Arizona State running back Cam Skattebo.
So much so that he felt the need to issue a public service announcement “to the world’s table” for all those lazy takes surrounding Skattebo this NFL Draft cycle.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m not going to sit here for the next 52 days and hear Cameron Skattebo in the same sentence as deceptively fast or sneaky athletic. It’s already happening and I don’t like it. I don’t like where it’s going, especially not after what he did at Arizona State and not after what he did in Indianapolis over the weekend.
“Remember what I’m saying. There is not sneaky about a 40-inch vertical jump. 39.5 this guy just jumped. That is better than Adrian Peterson, than Jamaal Charles, than Marshawn (Lynch). It’s better than Christian McCaffrey, who I personally thought drove a stake through the entire heart of the sneaky athletic joke industry, but we’re still here. It needs to stop. It’s not funny anymore, you’ve been doing it for years. It’s not applicable here. Don’t do it.”
Take a second and breathe, Brandt.
As the passionate NFL Network host alluded to, there’s nothing sneaky about what Skattebo put on tape in his final season at ASU.
Across 13 games last year, Skattebo amassed 1,711 rushing yards and 21 touchdowns on 293 carries. He also reeled in 45 catches for 605 yards and three touchdowns on top of throwing a 42-yard touchdown in ASU’s Peach Bowl loss to Texas
For his efforts, the running back earned an All-Big 12 First Team nod and finished fifth in Heisman Trophy voting.
He only added to his draft stock this NFL Draft Combine. Despite bypassing most on-the-field drills, Skattebo showed out during the vertical jump of 39.5 inches. He posted a 10-foot-3 broad jump.
“Over the next 52 days, I do not want to hear the name Toby Gerhart a single time,” Brandt said. “Don’t say it! If you’re saying it about Cam Skattebo, you’re mailing in your analysis. You’re lazy. They’re not close to the same prospect. Do not utter the name Peyton Hillis in my presence, stop it! … Do better than just scrolling your nostalgia rolodex for the fastest meathead cracker you can find. You have to do better!
“Lastly, it is possible to describe and analyze young Cameron Skattebo without mentioning the name Mike Alstott. … It’s not the comp!”
Kyle Brandt’s NFL comps for Cam Skattebo
While Brandt refuses to get behind the “lazy” comparisons to Skattebo, he can get on board with the following:
– Mark Ingram
“Very similar size. Same kind of angry runner.”
– Frank Gore
“Incredible balance for a smaller guy.”
– Some Marshawn Lynch
“Not the personality. He’s not as fast, but wild, fierce, almost messy runs and almost the exactly same weight as Marshawn.”
Skatt all for Brandt’s PSA
Skatt wasn’t oblivious to what Brandt was throwing down on Monday.
“Kyle Brandt, YOU ARE THE MANNNNN!!!!!” the running back
posted on social media not long after the PSA went live.
Cam Skattebo’s draft stock
In ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr.’s
most recent big board released last week before the combine’s on-the-field work began, Skattebo came in as his eighth-ranked running back.
NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah did not have Skattebo among
his updated top 50 prospects published last week, nor was he a part of the analyst’s two first-round mock drafts this offseason.
Pro Football Focus meanwhile has Skattebo as its
52nd best prospect and third best running back on its big board.
NFL Network draft analyst Lance Zierlein’s
breakdown of Skattebo has him in the “good backup with the potential to develop into a starter” tier.
