re: How would you guys feel about Ryan Shazier?

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He's not a downhill player in the slightest. He gets absolutely swallowed up whenever you force him at the point of attack. He's not a natural blitzer and for someone as fast and athletic as he is, his pass coverage leaves alot to be desired. He doesn't have the natural instincs others do in coverage. His gap discipline is also laughable at times (and this isn't as easily coached as people think).

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Disagree with all of that except for getting swallowed up if a lineman gets to him.

Someone posted his "worst" games and they weren't bad at all. He made some bad plays but watching it a lot of being out of position is from the playing calling putting him in zone.

A big flaw with that was his was so quick to get to his zone he would be there before he read the play. But then you see him come flying back in and half the time he still made the play.

He is extremely good going downhill on the blitz or run as long as you keep him clean. He's not a big run stuffing LB so it's not like you'd expect him to take on a guy weighing 60-100 lbs more and have him win consistently.

And again most of his coverage "issues" was the zones they were playing. When he was manned up he held his own more often than not.

And I see plenty of natural instincts, but he lacks the discipline to wait that one second to read the play before dropping into zone. That can be coached and we also play less zone in our defense.

The biggest issue I have we him that you didn't mention was his tendency to arm tackle. That drives me nuts and reminds me a bit of Jenkins, though he is much better at it. It's also coachable but that would be the biggest issue keeping me away.