The relative sporting score is still a pretty good guide on how the packers approach the design

On Monday before the NFL design of 2025, Brian gave good art with the media. His interview was as far as you would expect, but in this wide area of ​​good art specifically got a matter of one thing: the relative sporting score.

When asked whether he included the popular metric in his preliminary draft process, Gutekunst gave a fairly fixed NR.

“We don't use Ras Score at all,” said Gotekunst. “We don't have something like that. We have some analytical scores that do our analysis itself, which measures sporty properties and other things.”

In short, we don't use it at all, but we use such things.

Fair enough. Gotenkunst would probably never come out directly and say whether the Packers have used Ras (if they do it), and I'm not sure if they should use it directly anyway. It has its limits. But the factor of sportiness is worthwhile (football is a game for big athletes after all). So we should at least ask whether the packers differ sensibly from only RAS.

And with regard to this question, I think that the answer is also no. You can probably only approach all sportiness metrics that the packers use.

I wrote about the RAS-oriented design trends from Gotekunst in 2020, and the data has not changed much since then. In his now eight years as General Manager of the Packers, the design classes of Gokekunst had five times 8.0 RAS or higher (the threshold for “elite” porter). His classes have released an average of 7.9 Ras two more times. He has never put together an average RAS under 7.6.

Class 2025 in particular shows how Ras is a good indicator of how the packers select. Matthew Golden and Savion Williams did not complete enough tests to create a Ras number, but Anthony Belton was an 8.14, Barryn Sorrell and Collin Oliver were 9.31 and 9.74, and Warren Brinson was 9.1. Even the non-elite testers, Micah Robinson and John Williams, laid 6.41 and 7.55. If you concentrate alone on sportiness, she would have given a good idea of ​​what the Packers would do, especially if you concentrated on Edge Rusher after the packers hadn't taken anyone in the first three rounds.

I am not here to say whether the elite of elite athletes is a good idea or not, or weigh up the overall strategy of good art, although the focus on elite athletes seems to be a rather decent opportunity to find prospects with the highest blankets. However, it seems to be clear that it is a fairly decent approach to everything you use, even if the packers do not use RAS. If you are looking for guidelines to identify the type of players where the packers could be used, Ras and their visits before the design would be great places to start.