cutdown day is here, which means we can reflect back on an entire, three-game preseason.As I did for the first two weeks of the exhibition outings, grades will be handed out, meaningle s game or not. Yes, I was pumped to watch these prospects, who I studied for months, on a profe sional field.These are preseason grades for the final preseason contests for first-round rookies. Before I begin, if a rookie isn't listed, it's either because he did not play in his respective team's most recent game or, due to a variety of reasons, wasn't able to make much of an impact at all, bad or good.Grade: B+ CAR QB #9 CMP%66.7YDs21TD0INT0YD/Att3.5 Young's final tune up for the regular season was lightyears better than his first two outings in the preseason. After a few easy completions to start, Young flashed his vintage creativity avoiding the explosive with
a nasty bake juke after the quarterback flipped his head around on a play-action bootleg and had the second-year rusher in his face. He drastically cooled after that, with most of his throws falling incomplete, and Young was sacked in the red zone. He finished by hitting on a deep over, before a scramble and a dime to Thielen at the front left pylon for a touchdown. Grade: B+ HOU QB #7 CMP%50.0YDs13TD0INT1YD/Att3.25 Short and sweet preseason finale for Stroud. He dropped one in the bucket to to start the night, but the downfield pa s was knocked away at the last second. After a misfire on a scramble-drill throw toward the sideline to , he hit over
the middle and got the ball to Collins, who was open on a short cro ser, for a touchdown. Grade: B LV DE #9 Wilson had a nice one-armed tackle while gliding acro s the formation on a run and a highlight-reel bull rush of the Cowboys backup right tackle in his preseason debut for Las Vegas. Other than that, he was slowed by rookie tight end on a pa s-rush attempt and didn't make much of an impact.Grade: B+ TEN OT #77 Skoronski was again rock-solid at left guard for the Titans. He did an admirable job dealing with the larger, more powerful front of the in the final but wasn't quite as sturdy in pa s protection. Grade: B+ GB LB #90 No registered pre sure for Van Ne s against the , but his first few reps were awesome. Slippery swim move to beat the left tackle on a pa s and run play. For his size -- Van Ne s is over 270 pounds, he's proven to be explosive and fluid changing direction this preseason. Grade: B PIT OT #77 To my surprise, Jones wasn't overly comfortable blocking for the ground game against the . A few defenders he had squared up slipped off his blocks earlier than expected. He did hold his own in pa s protection, which is of course, more vital. Grade: C- NYJ DE #99 After arguably the best preseason debut of any rookie from the 2023 first round, McDonald cooled in the second and came back to Earth even more against the albeit on a small 13-snap sample size. No pre sures and only provided some help on one tackle. Grade: B+ DET LB #46 Campbell is good to go
for the regular season. He was again hyper-active in his third preseason audition. There was one minor mi sed tackle on an underneath to s to tight end . Campbell counteracted that negative play with a remarkable shed of a climbing offensive linemen en route to one of his tackles in the game.Grade: B LAC WR #1 TAR0REC3REC YDs10REC TD1FL0 Two grabs from Johnston against the , the first came on a nifty sell of a double-move that snapped into a comeback route. The other was another grab near the sideline. Grade: B BUF TE #86 After a splashy showing with 45 yards on three grabs against the Steelers, Kincaid went catchle s against the in Chicago, however he did
draw a pa s interference deep down the field, and he sold it well. There was more progre s made as a blocker, a low-key important development for him. Grade: C+ DAL DT #58 Smith wasn't repeatedly overwhelmed in the preseason finale like he was the week before, yet nothing moved the needle positively as a pa s rusher -- no pre sures -- but Smith did help on two tackles, one of which came when he scraped acro s the line on a stretch run.Grade: B- JAC OT #77 Harrison had a few reps against ascending pa s rusher in which the veteran was able to soften Harrison's corner en route to . No pre sure allowed though. Otherwise, Harrison was rock solid, just like in the preseason opener.Grade: B- CIN DE #99 Murphy showcased quality get-off and had a clean win on an inside counter relatively early in the third . After that, minimal impact before a chip near the end of the half actually accelerated him to the quarterback. Grade: A+ NO DT #90 Bresee looked like the former No. 1 recruit in the nation in the preseason finale against the Texans. Four pre sures. Two came on powerful swipe moves. The others were on incredible spins that left the guards a signed to
block him completely helple s.Grade: B KC DE #97 One super-clean win with an inside counter on a pa s-rush rep for Anudike-Uzomah, and his other two pre sures came on a stunt and when he was unblocked. He didn't impact the game much otherwise but did chip in with a tackle in the run game.
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