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Draft Lab: Navorro Bowman's stock

By KC Joyner
ESPN Insider

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

One of the difficulties in grading a college prospect is when his team uses him in a different way than the pros would employ him. For example, prior to the entry of current Atlanta Falcons QB Matt Ryan into the 2008 draft, I broke down seven games from his senior season and found that he had a 6.1 percent bad decision rate. A bad decision is defined as when the quarterback does something with the ball that leads either to a turnover or a near-turnover, and a 6.1 percent rate would get a pas ...

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