03-27-2024, 01:20 PM
(03-27-2024, 09:24 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: Walter Football has T'Vondre Sweat, NT, Texas coming to us @ 80
Is round 2 too high?
(03-27-2024, 09:46 AM)CJD Wrote: It's hard to say. I see PFF rating him as an early 3rd rounder as well. I think the truth is he is a late 2nd, early 3rd round pick in terms of value in this draft class. Which means there's a good chance he'd be considered a reach at 49, but could be gone by 80.
The reason I am bullish on him at 49 is because there are not a lot of nose tackles in this draft. You got Sweat who's a 2nd/3rd round prospect, McKinnley Jackson who is a 3rd/4th round prospect, Kristian Boyd who is a 5th/6th round prospect, and then a few UDFA prospects in Justin Rogers and Evan Anderson.
All it takes is one team to decide they need a NT in the mid 2nd round, and suddenly we're faced with a similar problem at 80, where we have to decide if we want to "reach" for Jackson or hope he falls to our 4th round pick.
If he gets plucked too, then we start looking at Boyd with our 5th round pick, and the cycle continues.
Since NT is our 2nd biggest need in this draft, I don't mind a half round reach to get the best NT in the draft.
But I realize he has some red flags that our coaching staff may just be unwilling to spend a 2nd round pick on (weight, effort questions primarily).
How often do you get a chance to draft a 6’4” 366lbs Outland Trophy winning Big 12 defensive player of the year?
NTs seem like they usually slide in the draft. And with the QBs in our division he may not be the ideal candidate to be chasing them around.
But he feels like a unicorn in this draft. And I think we have the luxury of reaching to ensure we get the best player at a position where we lost a good one.
