The Low Redzone
Welcome to The Low Redzone, a new long form writing site featured around football, and leaning towards the collegiate game, the NFL Draft and associated stories. It'll also be where you can find my NFL Draft musings, and the home of TLRZ DraftBook.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 12 | Founded | 7 months ago | Last Issue | 16 days ago |
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One Billboard Outside Madison Square Garden
The Joey Harrington billboard in Manhattan.
I’m looking for a box in a part of the loft that hasn’t felt footsteps since before the pandemic. Inside it lies a series of personal football treasures from when I was a kid: thick blue notebook...
Final 2026 Mock Draft
It's Nerds Christmas Day and by goodness I'm a nerd! We made it folks. Here is my final stab at a round one mock.
Las Vegas Raiders - Fernando Mendoza - QB - Indiana
A Brit Out of Water
Oliver Chell is nervous. Sat in an apartment in Columbus, Ohio, he’s waiting for a phone that won’t ring, no matter how hard he stares at it. He’s resorted to fidgeting to kill time and now the excitement he was feeling earlier has turned t...
2026 NFL Draft - Top Fifty Prospects Board
There are five days to go before the Draft begins. So here are my top fifty prospects for the 2026 annual selection meeting.
Caleb Downs - S - Ohio State
The 2026 Low Redzone DraftBook
The NFL Draft has been fairly life-consuming for me. Back when I first got into American Football in the early 1980’s, I found the annual selection meeting such an alien construct: we’ve nothing like it in the UK. I was fascinated by how it...
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I'm a journalist obsessed by long form storytelling. I worked for the BBC for a quarter of a century and now I make documentaries for radio and podcasts. I love the intimacy of a great story, the power of the written word, football, and the draft.
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