Ex-Green Bay Packers Vice President Sheds Light on How Misleading the NFL Draft Can Be, Citing Examples of Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers

The NFL draft always releases some grades for the players. These grades are indicators for the teams to decide who they’ll be drafting. Interestingly, many of the greats were given absolutely terrible ranks. One such example was Patrick Mahomes being rated a ‘C’. However, Mahomes quickly proved this grade wrong. This also happened with one of the most celebrated veterans of the game, Aaron Rodgers.

After Mahomes’ rank went viral, the Vice President of the Packers took to Twitter to share what shocking grade Rodgers had gotten. It was an absurdly low grade that doesn’t match his actual accolades and skills. Furthermore, fans went on to express their disbelief at the grade.

The shocking grade Aaron Rodgers got during his draft

Andrew Brandt took to Twitter to talk about Rodgers and how he was graded by scouts during his draft days. He went took to Twitter to announce that Rodgers had been awarded multiple F grades by a lot of scouts. By the indication of the reports, Rodgers shouldn’t have been drafted.

However, Rodgers’ performance in the league, since then, shocked any scout who gave him a bad grade. There is no doubt that his performance throughout the years has made him one of the greats.

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Furthermore, after the grade went viral, fans were enraged. They took to Twitter to voice out their extreme bias against the draft reports that went viral.

Fans go off on the NFL Draft’s grading system

Fans took to Twitter to talk about the different kinds of grades that were given to some of the best players in the NFL despite low grades. Some fans questioned who graded the players.

Furthermore, there were some joking comments about what the C grade actually stands for.

There were also fans who commented on how the scouts weren’t very efficient.

Fans also spoke about the fact that these bad reports prove a point.

Finally, there were some hilarious comments about hindsight that related to Mahomes.

All in all, fans were totally boggled by how a lot of the best players in the game had gotten a horrible rating from the scouts. They were also shocked at Rodgers’ grade when he first got drafted.

While the rating system has been proven wrong multiple times, the scouts still go on with it. It only remains to see how the ratings of this year’s draft will be proven wrong.

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