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re: Penning trash
Posted on 1/31/24 at 3:06 pm to Pels_Yaz
Posted on 1/31/24 at 3:06 pm to Pels_Yaz
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Point being its just dumb to waste a first round pick on a FCS OL. Competition matters.
Now how many FCS OL were taken in other rounds or undrafted and would be 1st rounders in a redraft? Larry Allen & Jahri Evans jump to mind. I'm sure there are others, these 2 always stuck out to me.
Bottom line, you can't rule someone out just because of the competition. With that said, in hindsight it appears there were some signs major that Penning should have been a 2nd or 3rd rounder at best. Especially considering some of the red flags were when he was competing against other FCS competition.
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Posted on 1/31/24 at 3:10 pm to Weekend Warrior79
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Now how many FCS OL were taken in other rounds or undrafted and would be 1st rounders in a redraft? Larry Allen & Jahri Evans jump to mind. I'm sure there are others, these 2 always stuck out to me.
So I was waiting for someone to mention this. You can do that because the risk isnt great in later rounds. If you fail no one cares about a 4th or 6th round pick because the guy you passed up more than likely would also not have impacted the team. That’s not the case in the first round the risk isn’t worth the gamble especially with an OL who hasn’t seen close to Power 5 pass rushers in his college career. You want to develop guy- take the risk in lower rounds. Don’t waste a first round pick on it.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 7:56 am to Weekend Warrior79
quote:Statistics are a science for a reason.
Now how many FCS OL were taken in other rounds or undrafted and would be 1st rounders in a redraft? Larry Allen & Jahri Evans jump to mind. I'm sure there are others, these 2 always stuck out to me.
About the same number of kids play college football at the FCS level that play at the FBS level every year. (In 2020, there were 130 FBS teams and 127 FCS teams.) And you can only name two FCS lineman off the top of your head as being successes in the NFL.
“Mediocre teams do mediocre things.”
This is who and what the Saints are now.
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