One thing I would be extremely interested in watching would be a TV show or series where some coaches, GM’s, and scouts go back to draft classes from a few years ago and go into detail about why a player didn’t work out in the NFL. They could review the pre-draft scouting reports and what everyone was saying and then follow their work through the NFL and explain what went wrong and how it went wrong.
Obviously this would be with the benefit of hindsight but I would be interested in hearing their perspective and see if there are any patterns, because there are no sure-fire things. I tend to favor prospects who play for great teams in big-time games (Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, etc.) but then there are some obvious discrepancies there: Lewis Cene was a 1st-round pick from an absolutely dominant defense and barely saw the field in the NFL; what didn’t work? Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes didn’t make it to any blue-chip, contending rosters in college and now they’re the talk of the NFL. What slipped by college recruiters but became more obvious to NFL draft scouts?
One additional note: I just went on about how unpredictable things are, yet I do feel like it almost never goes well when a highly-touted college prospect has traits that some people like but barely played, and my examples are Richardson and Trey Lance. I’m pretty astonished that NFL GM’s were willing to draft those two so high based on such a small sample size from college football.