Our drafting has sucked lately

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(01-31-2024, 05:29 PM)Whatever Wrote: Why would you think there is one?  It's not a good NT class.  There's no NT with a 1st round grade at all.  The highest graded one is Sweat, who's flirting with falling out of the Top 50 entirely(though he is showing better today).  If there was a NT that experts thought could immediately be a quality starter, they'd have a 1st round grade.

NT has a huge learning curve, anyways.  Not only are you going through the jump from college to NFL competition, but unlike most other DL, you face constant double teams.

You can draft a guy and throw him out there as a starter, but it doesn't mean he's that caliber of player, at least not yet.  If you're in a rebuild, that's fine.  If you're gunning for a SB, it's not.  It doesn't make sense when there's a number of proven NT's in FA.  

Here's a note about Sweat from today's Senior Bowl practice...
https://saintswire.usatoday.com/lists/senior-bowl-highlights-practice-notes-day-2-2024-nfl-draft-prospects/

Quote:DL T'Vondre Sweat looks powerful
The 360-ish pound defensive lineman looks like he has put all of his weight into his insane strength. He could be a guy that plugs the middle of a defensive line.