Trying to figure out how rookies will perform now that they’ve made the jump to the NFL can be very difficult. Some players who were stars at the college level can never recreate that kind of success when they become professionals. Other young men flourish in ways they never could when the pressure is on, so predicting their first-year performance can be very hard.
However, NFL.com Media analyst Bucky Brooks recently took a look at all of the offensive “skill” players who were selected in the first round of the 2016 NFL Draft and put together an article with his NFL rookie projections including best-case and worst-case scenarios for each.