Scouting Notes
- Elite athlete for the position.
- Easily one of the best run blockers in this class, if not the best.
- High-end motor and tough competitor.
- Clearly a team player with a work-hard attitude.
- Flawless against any subpar talent.
- Great vision, but can lock on to a defender too intensely and miss a surging blitzer.
- Hands are inconsistent.
- Lateral mobility is surprisingly inadequate for a former Tight End. Got beat around the edge multiple times.
Short Summary
Cody Mauch is pretty famous in draft circles. His iconic smile along with his Thor-like hair are a picture that draft analysts don’t forget easily. His scouting profile is equally as intriguing and confusing.
As a former Tight End, you’d expect him to be relatively lean, and have a great athleticism edge while struggling in the run game and against power rushers. In reality, he isn’t alarmingly thin, he is powerful and can hang with the big boys, and he isn’t an explosive athlete. He couldn’t be more opposite relative to expectation.
To make matters more confusing, he looked fantastic at the Senior Bowl practices but was seemingly invisible during the Senior Bowl game itself. He was even bumped inside to Guard, a position he’s hardly played, and one that relies even more on strength and even less on athleticism. This is likely due to his short arms, which are a big concern for an NFL Offensive Tackle prospect.
I don’t know what to make of Cody Mauch, but he is a tough competitor, is clearly willing to work hard (he put on weight and transformed his game when his coaches moved him to O-Line), and has plenty of great reps on tape. An NFL Head Coach can do wonders with him, but he is far from a sure thing.
Scouting Card Key
- Age refers to the age of the player come draft night, rounded to the nearest half-age.
- Percentage numbers in the Player Info and Combine Stats sections – This refers to the percentile that number belongs to among all players at his position, going back nearly a decade.
- Percentiles in the Advanced Stats portion for cumulative stats are snap-adjusted. In other words, naturally, a player with more snaps will allow more sacks. Therefore, the percentiles are calculated using the snap-adjusted number, rather than the straight-forward total.
- PBLK Grade – PFF Pass Block Grade.
- RBLK Grade – PFF Run Block Grade.
- HitA, HurryA, PressA, SacksA – Hits Allowed, Hurries Allowed, Pressures Allowed, Sacks Allowed.
- Efficiency – A PFF signature blocking stat.
- L.Mobility, V.Mobility – Lateral and Vertical mobility.
Credit
Advanced stats – pff.com
Scouting card template / idea – Jordan Pun @Texans_Thoughts
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