First Round Prospects You'd Avoid At All Costs

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(04-10-2024, 06:47 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: These are the top 20 OT prospects as ranked and rated by everyone's beloved PFF service.

5. Alt  90.7
12. Fuaga 88.2
14. Fautanu 75.5
18. Fashanu 78.8
19. Latham 81.9
22. Mims 75.6
25. Barton 75.9
30. Guyton 63.7
40. Morgan 83.5
45. Suamataia 67.5
57. Amegadjie 89.5
78. Fisher 71.1
90. Paul 81.1
96. Puni 80.6
110. Goncalves 72.2
130. Jones 75.2
142. Laumea 65.4
143. Adams 65.6
152 Rosegarten 71.0
168. Foster 84.2

Does anything about that list stand out to you? I mean, other than the fact that his on field performance grade was the worst of any Tackle prospect in the PFF top 20? Are they simply basing everything off of potential, because his on the field performance says he's not a 1st round guy, in fact he even looks like a bit of an anomaly on the PFF big board as the #30 prospect.

With that said, I'm still hoping that Fuaga makes it to #18.

In fairness, Guyton is very raw, starting out as a DT and moving to H-back and finally T at TCU before transferring to Oklahoma.  He's very much a work in progress.  

He was a kid that was graded as a 2nd rounder due to his incredible traits, but shot up into the 1st due to a very impressive Senior Bowl where he looked more polished than he did on his college tape.  Still had a couple of rough reps, but extremely good, overall.  Beyond the obvious pass pro talent, he has tremendous range on pulls and reach blocks, the latter being huge for a team that wants to run wide zone a lot.

Honestly, all of the top four RT prospects are great, but they all have their concerns.  Latham has refused to do practically anything during the off-season and there's the long line of bust Alabama OL and kids going into the draft injured out of that program.  Fuaga is very short armed for a T, and while folks gloss over it, only a couple of T's with sub 34" arms have made the Pro Bowl in the last 6 years.  Mims is always hurt.  And Guyton is the rawest of the four.