re: Has Grant Delpit hurt his draft stock with performance through first 3 games?

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Too many missed/bouncing off tackles.

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This is a weakness of his in an otherwise perfect player. NFL scouts already knew about it based on his 18 whiffs last year. He needs to improve on this, and I think he will. It's easily fixable, and it mainly requires a little technique and a lot of concentration.

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Several blown coverages - not all of them his fault

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You're way off base with this. In fact, his stock is going up due to his spectacular coverage this year. I don't know if you noticed, but against Texas, several plays had Delpit walking out to the sideline wide out and checking him man to man. That's not something safeties do. And Texas had so much respect for him they ignored it. Delpit is a unicorn - a safety who has great range, great length, extreme quickness, hips of a cornerback, and makes explosive plays in the running game and against screen passes. Fix the tackling issue and he could be the greatest safety to ever play the game. He's getting drafted high.