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.)
Had a cigar with a current Big 10 D Coordinator last night and he was telling me he thinks Ojabo going to have a better career than Hutchinson. Also said when he recruited Thibodeaux, he always thought he’d be the #1 overall pick when he got drafted.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
No but I’m going to root for it to happen. I do think Four go in the entire draft and I’m counting that if it happens.
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.
man, i know mock drafts drive traffic and are dumb but a "sneak peak" of the mock draft where you don't just publish the draft but instead write up some position groups is horrible
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?