{"id":18695,"date":"2020-03-25T10:46:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sharpfootballanalysis.com\/?p=18695"},"modified":"2020-03-25T10:46:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:46:03","slug":"sis-football-rookie-handbook-preview-andrew-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharpfootballanalysis.com\/analysis\/sis-football-rookie-handbook-preview-andrew-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"SIS Football Rookie Handbook Preview: Andrew Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sports Info Solutions (SIS) brings you the second annual edition of <\/span><\/i>The SIS Football Rookie Handbook<\/span><\/i><\/a>, with scouting reports and statistical breakdowns on over 280 college football players who are likely to be drafted or signed as rookie free agents in 2020 (a glossary for the below stats can be found <\/span><\/i>here<\/span><\/i><\/a>). New features for this year include unique and informative NFL team pages, research deep-dives by the SIS R&D team, and\u2014for the first time ever\u2014the NCAA version of their flagship football statistic, <\/span><\/i>Total Points<\/span><\/i><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t

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Continuing our position-by-position preview of this year\u2019s draft class, we shift our focus to offensive tackles. As a scouting staff, we use common terminology to grade every trait that we evaluate. We use a 1-9 scale with a 1 representing a “Reject” grade and a 9 meaning a “Rare” grade for whatever trait we are evaluating. We spend a lot of time in our internal Scout School making sure that our scales are calibrated with one another, and this common scale and set of language is a key aspect to ensuring that our evaluations are consistent (that\u2026and cross-checks).<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, for each position in the book, there are positional grading scales. As opposed to grading traits, these scales apply to stacking the final grades for each prospect. The final offensive tackle scale is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n