re: Defensive adjustment

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The vast majority of NFL players were, if not the best, one of the best players on their college teams. People never seem to understand this.

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The talent gap closes in the NFL between offense and defense also. Your 3rd best DB in college is often a once highschool wideout/runningback who had "bad hands". In the NFL, that player may be the same, but he is the best one of those culled from years of drafts. going from the 1% of all athletes to the .01%.

Meanwhile Amari Cooper is still cooper, Julio is still Julio. Those players may get better, but the advantage they carried in college is not nearly as pronounced.