Mike Giddings Archives

How Do NFL Players Earn an ‘F’ Injury Grade from Scouts?

June 19, 2022 3 min read

How Do NFL Players Earn an ‘F’ Injury Grade from Scouts?

The best ability is availability. It is a phrase that everyone has heard at some point in their life, but it applies particularly well to the NFL where it does not matter how good a player is if they are not on the field due to injury. In our most recent Wednesday Huddle, The 33rd […]

The 33rd Team

April 18, 2022 7 min read

NFL Insiders Scout the Draft’s Top Linebacker Prospects

The NFL Draft is now just over a week away, and The 33rd Team’s most recent Wednesday Huddle featured Mike Giddings of Proscout Inc. breaking down three of the top linebacker prospects available in this year’s draft: Nakobe Dean, Quay Walker, and Chad Muma. Giddings and Proscout Inc. have worked with 33 Super Bowl teams […]

Garrett Sharp-Craig

April 6, 2022 3 min read

Why Are There So Many Misses in the First Round of the NFL Draft?

The incredible growth of the NFL has been a spectacle to watch over the last decade. Franchise values have skyrocketed, even during a pandemic, which has led to teams putting ample investment into their front office staff, analytics team, and scouting department. With all the resources that NFL teams now have to evaluate players, it […]

Garrett Sharp-Craig

March 10, 2022 4 min read

Mike Giddings: Reviewing the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Past Free Agencies

After an eventful NFL Scouting Combine where fans and media freaked over Kenny Pickett’s eight and a half inch hands and marveled at Jordan Davis’ 4.78 40 yard dash at 341 pounds, the next date circled on the NFL calendar is free agency. Mike Giddings, the owner and president of Pro Scout Inc helps us […]

Garrett Sharp-Craig

February 16, 2022 3 min read

Mike Giddings: Predicting the Unpredictable Of the 2021 NFL Playoffs

Since 1977, Pro Scout Inc. has worked with and provided insight for 33 Super Bowl teams and 12 Hall of Fame coaches, owners, and general managers. The owner and president, Mike Giddings, is frequently tasked with providing NFL executives his expertise using his detailed metrics for evaluation. In order to predict playoff success, Giddings assess […]

The 33rd Team

February 13, 2022 < 1 min read

Mike Giddings: Predicting The Bengals Super Bowl Appearance

Ethan Useloff

January 31, 2022 4 min read

How The Bengals Rebuilt From Worst To First In Two Years

After defeating the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship game on Sunday afternoon, the Cincinnati Bengals have punched their ticket to Super Bowl LVI. Though improbable, as they were tied for the third-worst odds to start the 2021 season, Cincinnati has found a way to outlast their AFC opponents to win the conference. Their […]

Garrett Sharp-Craig

January 20, 2022 4 min read

How These 4 Teams Maximized Their Playoff Chances

For the last 34 years, Mike Giddings Jr. has been the owner and president of Pro Scout Inc. He is an experienced football evaluator tasked with providing NFL decision makers his unbiased perspective. His company, ProScout Inc. has worked with 33 Super Bowl teams and 12 Hall of Fame coaches, owners, and general managers. ProScout […]

The 33rd Team

January 6, 2022 3 min read

Mike Giddings Predicted That the Bengals and Patriots Would Make the 2022 Playoffs

Since 1977, Pro Scout Inc. has been functioning as one of the NFL’s most respected and yet seemingly under-the-radar services. A third-party scouting service that has evaluated every player on every team each year, Pro Scout Inc. has worked with 33 Super Bowl winners and directly for 18 Hall of Fame coaches, general managers, and […]

Craig Ellenport

August 11, 2021 2 min read

There’s a reason the National Football League doesn’t like it when games played in August are called “exhibition games,” and the league’s PR department does what it can to convince the media not to use that term. But it’s not just a PR thing. Generally speaking, the intensity level both on and off the field […]