05-05-2021, 07:03 PM
(05-05-2021, 06:29 PM)tms Wrote: With all due respect to the guy, you can't possibly carve out a role for Evans anytime soon. He is rusty as hell and will be trying to clear out the cobwebs at the pro level. Not ideal. He has PS written all over him... or at least he should imo.
His drop-off over the past year was not insignificant. And I'm talking beyond just #reps. He looked like he had lost some of his burst and weight- if not confidence- and I don't know what the immediate future holds for him. Yes, his 2018 game tape was awesome, but last year's player looked far more indecisive- almost as if he had lost a step. Is he just in the proverbial cocoon, learning to fly again; or is his regression just a sign of things to come? For now it's hard to tell. But I think there are a lot of questions around that pick, irrespective of his skillset and how we hope it'll translate to the pros.
Wasn't his drop off due to being suspended academically for a year and then the next year the new OC at TTUN for whatever reason wouldn't play him? That all has to do with reps. Gotta have reps to produce. He had to show something in the small amount of reps he did have or he showed something at his pro day for the Bengals to select him. There is some draft analysts that think he is a steal in the 6 round. I'm hoping he and Pooka makes it over T. Williams and Patrick. IMO everyone who sat out this past season is probably a little rusty or regressed some.
