Article on NFL Draft and the changing (or not) NFL

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There is, against common sense, a looming culture war in the NFL when it comes to team-building and on-field strategy. The easiest way to win this war is to embrace both sides. There will never be a time when analytics can tell the entire story of football, because schemes at every level vary too greatly, a player’s role in said scheme can explain his numbers as much as his talent, and the college game is vastly different from the pro game. So you have to marry the numbers with everything else.

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