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Smashing the lies being told about Noah Fant through analytics

Box score scouting is fun. It’s become even more fun thanks to our friends at Pro Football Focus.

This is not a slight to PFF or the work they do there, but I do want to highlight ways things are missed, even with their in-depth analytics and the way they break things down from a borderline baseball-like statistical perspective.

One issue I have taken in the 2019 NFL Draft season with PFF — even before he was drafted by the Broncos (for all the haters) — is their recent analysis of Noah Fant’s game.

PFF, within the last month, made Fant seem like a drops machine who can’t make plays after the catch and who is a hack in contested catch situations.