Jojodaddy

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What is the reason for this? Why spend so much of Athletic Department resources on scholarships and international recruiting for foreign athletes instead of U.S. citizens, who pay those expenses

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Winning, plain and simple. You get the best and most dedicated players that rules allow. Do you want to run a subsidized daycare for less talented American athletes?

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As a 3rd rounder, if he can just carve a role, it’s a win.

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Agree with most of what you say on this thread but not this. Considering the available talent we left on the board there, I disagree. We could’ve had a nickel or IOL starter. Delp has to be more than a role guy for that selection to be a win.

Mickey didn’t want to fire his blow buddy DA but look at what’s happened since he did. He should be rewarding AK, not complaining about him.

He won’t prove me wrong because I never have nor will have a thought for him.

Watched a lot of Ole Miss. He’s a monster with good athleticism for his size. Can stack blockers, penetrate, and get down the line. Needs to be more consistently urgent, doesn’t always get off the line fast, has a tendency to play too tall. Maybe some lower body strength needed. Hard to know what he was supposed to do in the scheme though. He definitely has NFL size and athleticism.

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Sure if we ignore all the great players we did sign to 2nd and even 3rd contracts

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For instance?

You can’t argue that we’ve kept more talent than we’ve let go.

You kind of have to define the production to get an answer, no? A guy with his RAS can be day 1 or 2 easy if they’re double digit sacks in SEC. Or they can be UDFA if they don’t produce

They probably does not

Grade: B-

Tyson and Delp could be game changers, but we’re expecting very different outcomes in the NFL vs college: one to be consistently available, the other to actually be a productive part of the offense. Possible scenarios, sure. But both likely? Not so sure.

Would have preferred Downs in the Tyson spot or a trade down for Lemon/Conception/Cooper with more 3rd round firepower. In the Delp spot, the early impact second tier guards and nickels were all there.

Like the additions of Lance and Brown. We knew with a deep WR draft we were gonna have these opportunities, really like the athleticism and return game improvement.

Love Miller in the second. And swapping pick 150 for a one year Tyree rental is a decent upside bet too. We got better at stopping the run for sure.

Wright is a project. If he ends up with playing time this upcoming year, ehhh. Pass rush poor in college. He’s a draft lynchpin. If he ends up being a dude who can open up running lanes and hold his own in pass pro, oline is set.

Waited too long for a solid secondary guy. Our picks are likely practice squad or special teams. Maybe they are limited scheme guys. Don’t hate these pics per se but definitely deprioritized the glaring secondary need. Feels like we’re gonna be calling that out at some point this year. Mickey always give us a sign no-brainer omission.

Zero sniffs at LB, one group really lacking depth. Passed on some guys who slipped later than expected too.

Pass rush need, what pass rush need?

Maybe becoming more explosive offensively and improving in the defensive run game is good enough and this is a multi year rebuild. But after an offseason adding a bunch to the RB/WR/TE room, to add four more feels like “throw a lot at the wall and see what sticks”strategy, which meant less shots for other weak spots. If Tyson becomes a top 15 type WR and Delp a legitimate three down guy, you’re in B+/A- range and if Wright or Tyree click then it’s obviously A/A+. But today you’ve piled investment into offensive explosiveness with two key guys needing to transcend their college showing and you missed on some value in other places of need.

Great post.

I think the biggest miss in the draft was overlooking CB / nickel talent. Styles is a project and Hall is athletically limited.

I made a few but I don’t think I posted here. One theme in all of them was take the upside gambles later. Really like Delp, Lance, Styles, Brown picks.