The breakout star of the 2021 NFL draft season, at least for me, wasn’t a player but a stat-head named Kent Lee Platte, the creator of the Relative Athletic Score (RAS). I hadn’t heard of RAS until just before the draft, and now I’m fascinated by it. Platte describes RAS as “a metric that can easily and intuitively gauge a player’s athletic abilities relative to the position they play and provide tools to contrast and compare based on known measurables.”
At a high level, RAS looks at combine measurables for each player and spits out a score between zero (least athletic) to 10 (most athletic) relative to other players at the same position.