03-22-2024, 02:40 PM
(03-22-2024, 12:38 PM)Whatever Wrote: With Rankins under contract for 2 years, any 3 tech you draft is going to be a rotation player for 2 years. Then you look at RT and we'll need a starter in a year. WR, we need an immediate starter, plus Higgins will be gone in a year. It doesn't make sense, especially since the rookie will have a tough time earning snaps this year between Rankins and Hill. And Hill actually grades pretty well. Kind of feels like you're underselling him to try and make 3 tech seem like a bigger need than it is.
Besides which, they are going to try to get Murphy on the field more in pass rush situations, which means we'll have edge rushers kicking inside on obvious passing downs as well.
Not necessarily…. Do you think hill is gonna be a rotational player now? Or that rankings is gonna play every snap? Rankins is a pass rush specialist type of DT. Rankins played less than 600 snaps last year… a 3-tech this year would be a rotational yes, but next year would be a starter, or at least be getting starter level snaps… BJ hill played almost 800 snaps which is insane…. You would like at LEAST a 3 DT rotation played 650-700 snaps. In this scenario Newton would be the 3 down DT, and rankins would play a lot at the other DT spot. Also I believe we tag Higgins next year too. Why do y’all think rankins isn’t gonna decline? Much more faith in him than I have.
