2022 NFL Draft thread

Not everyone can be the next Vernon Gholston. (I'm aware he had 2 good years, but their draft year stat lines are eerily simmilar.)

 

Ojabo has a ridiculously high ceiling but is still very raw

 

1. It's a shitty draft and someone has to be considered the top guy.

2. Hutchinson was a good player in 2019 and 20 (he only played 2+ games in 20, too). He just played a very similar position/style as Walker did this year, which limited his sack totals. He's not a one-year wonder like Ojabo, for comparison.

 

Man… if NYJ give up a bunch to get Deebo, and then pay him a ton… eww

 

Hutchinson is basically Trey Hendrickson at 1.1 which is mind blowing to me. I’d find freaky traits of which there are few of and go with one of them.

 

I don't think whoever picks Hutchinson will be upset if he "only" gets them 13-14 sacks per year

 

Back in 2019 iowa game hutchinson and kwity paye had tristan wirfs / aj jackson in hell for 4 quarters

 

I don't really have anything to base it on other than random stuff I've read over the last week in stories and on Twitter, but I think Jameson Williams is the name most likely to shock people with how high he ends up going. In a draft without a ton of high end talent, I could see a team talking itself into taking that kind of swing pretty early. Maybe even top 5 with one of the NY teams.

 

He’s real fast.

 

I’ve had a hard time wrapping my head around Kyle Hamilton being a top 10 pick and ranked by so many as one of the top 5 in the draft.

4.7 forty makes him one of the slowest players on defense and that’s including the dline. Feel like you can get away with that in college but he’ll be exposed in the pros.

But I also don’t know shit.

 

Did the annual re-watch of Draft Day last night. I'm fucking ready!

Spoiler

trading three 2nd rd picks for number 6 overall

 

Did you watch any ND games? Every time I saw them play, Kyle Hamilton's play ranged from pretty fucking good to really fucking good

 

A safety in the top 10 though?

 

not as egregious as taking a RB at #2

 

Depends on thigh size imo.

 

C on the helmet vs a paperclip, that's gonna cost you a couple rounds

 

I did and I don’t disagree at all. Plenty of guys look all world in college and don’t pan out. Everyone is just a bit faster. Will his instincts and talent make up for a lineman's forty time in the secondary?

Helluva lotta people seem to think so. So it’s probably just my bad take.

 

how do the rest of his quickness times look?

 

Ignoring a prospects entire library of good game film because of a 40 time is an interesting choice

 

I feel like way too many people thought he was fast because of that one Florida State play where the QB threw a moonshot and Hamilton came across the field.

 

i hope he tumbles to #22 and the packers scoop him up. he's gonna be pretty good.

 

That’s the one. Dude was already heading in that direction then had plenty of time to run under the floater.

 

Saw something on NFLN with Cynthia Frelund saying Hamilton's in-game sprint speed was something like 80th percentile compared to other safeties.

4.59 is slow, but 40 times for safeties seem kind of overrated. It's an instincts/awareness position more than speed.

 

well no one said he went from opposite hash to sideline in two seconds.

 

Hahaha not where I thought that was going at all

 

I didn’t see other published times and frankly I didn’t look that hard before I saw his forty and immediately formed my opinion.

I mean DK was shit on because he couldn’t run a three cone. To me it was obvious he’d succeed. I’ve just let myself fall the opposite direction with Kyle. Even after watching him play.

 

that's fair. all this ever is a crapshoot.

 

you still betting the farm that four qbs go in the top 20?

 

you mean first round?

 

as a packer fan i havent been this excited for a draft in a long while. which means they'll fuck it up

 

Jets beat writers have been tweetstorming so hard this week all while contradicting each other every time so I can’t believe anything any of them are saying. Just ready to get this over with at this point

 

I watched 4-5 of his games on YouTube, he's really good in the box and pretty good as a deep safety. Where he really seemed to struggle was in between in coverage.

I think he'd be best as a linebacker but he'd probably need to add weight.

 

That's pretty wild. I figured his ceiling was patriots at 21. I guess word might have leaked out about the Eagles taking him perhaps?

 

my good buddy is a die hard NYJ fan and he is exhausted by all the rumors.

 

the Eagles taking a LB first round would be shocking.

 

I get that. Not sure who else would take a LB in that 11-20 range.

 

Interesting look at draft position vs initial mocks from the humanoid robot known as Warren Sharp