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Purple Chips

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2026-04-28
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Nate Tice's player-tiering vocabulary for no-brainer top-tier prospects — the rare players whose excellence is so settled the scouting conversation stops being a debate. Above blue chips. The show has adopted the term and uses it across QB/coach evaluations to mean the same thing in non-draft contexts.

Current Show Posture

As of 2026-04-28:

Nate's 2026-04-21 episode named the canonical purple-chip RBs from his decade-plus of scouting: Zeke Elliott, Bijan Robinson, Todd Gurley, Saquon Barkley. Jeremiyah Love explicitly does NOT make the tier (Gibbs/Jeanty tier instead), which is the framework's main 2026 use — distinguishing Love's real talent from the "generational" hype.

Recurring Frames Within the Concept

  • "No-brainer" — the placement criterion.
  • "Above blue chip" — the tier-relative position.
  • Rare and stable — the tier doesn't get expanded; the bar moves up over time, not down.

Episode Appearances

  • Nate Tice — analyst whose tiering vocabulary the frame comes from
  • Jeremiyah Love — the 2026 case for what does NOT make the tier
  • Coach Tiering — the show borrows the term for coach evaluations
  • QB Tiering — same vocabulary borrow