2024 NFL Draft Rumors: Which Players Are Teams Flagging?

Evaluating players for the NFL draft isn’t just about evaluating the tape and looking at the stats. There’s a reason the pre-draft process from January until late April is as long as the actual college football season in itself.

That’s because the art of evaluating the player is an easy, straight-forward process while the art of evaluating the person takes much longer. It’s also arguably much more important.

Players are “red-flagged” by NFL teams for a number of reasons. It could be off-field issues such as poor personal character. It could be on-field issues such as poor football character or injuries that team doctors believe will limit a player’s ability to impact the football team through their four-year rookie contract.

Generally, those red-flags are kept private. But as a former NFL scout, I’m able to access much of the information that teams want to keep private.

It should be noted that every team’s redline is different. What passes for one team may fail for another. This list is far from exhaustive.

And for some teams, and some readers, this list won’t matter. We’re only highlighting these issues because NFL teams care about them (some of them), and because inevitably a player will “fall” in the draft and fans will want to know why.

Should that happen—or when that happens—this is a resource as to why, potentially.

But we’re believers in players and people can learn from mistakes. So for those players red-flagged for off the field issues, it’s not always an indictment on their character or a prediction of their future. But as teams prepare to make decisions that impact hundreds of lives and millions of dollars, it’s important to turn over every piece of the puzzle that is player evaluation.

With that disclaimer out of the way—Which players are being red-flagged for on and off-field issues?

The Draft Scout has the only such list available on the Internet.