NEW: The first batch of 2026 NFL Draft WR prospects has been added to the #ReceptionPerception site 👀 Subscribers can now find RP charts, data and my evaluations on the following 5 WRs: Jordyn Tyson Makai Lemon Carnell Tate KC Concepcion Denzel Boston Get all the links you need below 👇

Consensus prospect big boards do a great job of identifying the rank order of which players project best to the NFL. However, one key piece that has been missing is the positional value of those players. So, I created a position-adjusted prospect big board. 🔗 to read ⤵️

Free Agents lost. How many of your teams players have signed with other teams, via @overthecap.bsky.social. GB leads here, losing 6 FA's for $88M AAV. LV losing Crosby is largest overall AAV ($35.5M) that changed teams, but PHI's Jaelan Phillips new $30M AAV from CAR is largest new contract.

Teams resigning their own pending free agents Again using @overthecap.bsky.social free agency data, this should be all the players who have signed a new contract with their 2025 team. Texans blowing everyone out of the water here with 11 signed for $80M. Eagles asleep at the wheel

Free Agency Excitement Index!! Every player who has switched teams this offseason (trade or FA) is shown here (data via @overthecap.bsky.social free agency page). Titans and Raiders leading the way with >$90M AAV spent. Broncos, Jags, Eagles, and Seahawks forgot about tampering.

Mike Evans, Ricky Pearsall, George Kittle, and Christian McCaffrey should be a devastating starting lineup for the 3 games they play together in 2026

The Browns restructure Deshaun Watson's contract one last time. Here is a breakdown of the latest restructure and the exit cap numbers on the contract overthecap.com/browns-restr...

Arthur Smith is now working on getting Jonnu an extra year of eligibility at Ohio State

Here's the trade value of all of those picks going to KC. *Note that my calculator app needs a pick from both teams to function, so I threw in the last pick in round 7. It's fake. **There is also a bit of uncertainty about which exact 6th rounder is going to Chiefs.

The most important piece of draft information out there: The top 40 prospects (by consensus board) by what Pokemon they are close to in height and weight (removing duplicate use of Pokemon)

this is horrifying

Travis Etienne has had more yards on explosive runs the last 2 seasons (717) than the entire Chiefs backfield (677) per @ftnfantasy.com

This year's edge class:

what's a "pipes" ?? #rstats

Think this is a good illustration of the positions where you can likely find quality players in free agency. Will be plenty of young talent available at RB, LB, and DB. Pickings are slim at QB, WR, and especially OT.

AFC West ($): samhoppen.substack.com/p/afc-west-o... AFC East ($): samhoppen.substack.com/p/afc-east-o... AFC North ($): samhoppen.substack.com/p/afc-north-... AFC South ($): samhoppen.substack.com/p/afc-south-...

ICYMI, yesterday I wrapped on my offseason preview series! I went through every division sharing these dashboards and touching on each team's offseason priorities, potential cap casualties, and team needs! You can find them all on my Substack at the links below!

The mother of Rashee Rice's children filed a suit alleging physical abuse over 2 years--some serious accusations contained here: www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl/k...

Roses are red, violets are blue, I should stop writing T and just spell out TRUE #RStats

~~ nflverse data update ~~ 2025 participation data is now live thanks to @ftnfantasy.com and @realfrankbrank.bsky.social. Access with nflreadr nflreadr.nflverse.com/reference/lo... or with nflreadpy nflreadpy.nflverse.com/api/load_fun...

Incredible start to finish run by the Seahawks. 17-3 record, and their three losses were by a combined 9 points. Did not lose by more than 4 points all season long. This was a weird season, but no doubt they're a worthy champ. Dominant.

in 2026 the Bad People Lose

Super Bowl LX: Seahawks vs Patriots Seahawks more than 2-1 favorites in this game. They have the advantage in overall defense, while the Patriots offense is stronger. Both teams are good at explosive plays, but both are also good at stopping them. Could be the game there. #SBLX #SB60 #SuperBowl

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

Oh buddy… this could be real fun!! Hope this forms toys back the rest of the books too much though. We’re already looking at like 15 years for Stormlight 10 to come out. And I am *dying* for the Dragonsteel series to come out, about Hoid.

The Open Visualization Academy launches TOMORROW MORNING (EST) openvisualizationacademy.org with 7 courses; we'll release 1-2 more/month beginning in February. Sneak peek at our website, designed by @vsueiro.bsky.social and Melissa Strong #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism

My wife brought me home roses 🌹 because she saw them and immediately thought of me. They’re exactly the ones I love, two-toned with red and orange, like a fire 🔥 As Hamilton would sing, my Love is the 🎶 “best of wives and best of women” 🎶

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

Asked my son who will coach the Browns and he said “Blippi” and you know what? Not a bad call at this point

By DVOA, the Patriots only played/will play three games against teams that were above average on *both* offense and defense: Pittsburgh Denver Super Bowl LX

Alex Pretti used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians bsky.app/profile/bran... "He was trying to help someone else they'd knocked to the ground. And for that they started pepper spraying him. And then the pistol whipped him and murdered him bsky.app/profile/clar...

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

...The citizenry can only do so much. The Congress and courts have to rediscover not just their conscience, but their ego. You're in power, too

We have a lawless presidency inciting violence in the streets. Not just ignoring "constitutional principles," but trampling on the very bedrock of the project. There are two other co-equal branches of government...

It's not that McCarthy is a joke. But it's a team whose identity has been "Just good enough without ever threatening to be great" hiring the coach who fits that exact bill.

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

insane to be here in dallas for shrine and try to talk about football when this shit is going on in minneapolis

The Chiefs are currently $62.4M over the cap heading into free agency. That means they will need to do a great deal of work just to get back to compliance. Here are the biggest cap hits, and how much money they can free up on those contracts. Data from @overthecap.bsky.social via the @nflverse.com

In the newsletter: The Open Visualization Academy is almost here. We launch next week; save the date! openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/the-open-v... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism

Quoted in the article linked is a tweet from the official White House twitter account, where they say "The memes will continue". Just so no one pretends the White House isn't doing this on purpose.

A small example of how random the NFL playoffs are. Let's say you had a team that beats any other team 70% of the time. That's a very good team, favored by roughly 6 points in each game. That team, even with the 1 seed, would make the Super Bowl less than half the time.

Finally the Patriots catch a break

i get the looney tunes thugs being baseline funny but like looney tunes captions provided by people supporting them is such a sweet surprise

Today's update of the 2026 head coach tracker. No Steelers yet, for obvious reasons. Data per AroundTheNFL and various other sources (Please note that this is a snapshot of a rapidly changing landscape, and I only post once a day to avoid spam)

this is just my news diet now the other day a friend of mine texted me that she was trapped in a car with another observer by seven armed ice agents who demanded they unlock the doors, intending to spray or arrest them. they used the full name of the observer who owned the car to intimidate them.

look i've been pretty overexposed to "the onion or real life" but every so often a headline pops out at you with such unerring on-the-nose insanity that i feel like the onion should sue reality