04-18-2017, 09:17 AM
(04-17-2017, 11:39 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Doing some real damage to your argument dropping those names.
Joey Bosa is a monster. He was 6'5" 269lbs and ran a 4.7. Jonathan Allen is 6'2" 286lbs and ran a 5.0. Bosa was an impact player as a true freshman. Charlton was finally a full time starter his senior year.
Gholston has 10 sacks in 4 years. Topping out at 3 in a year.
Ayers has never reached double digit sacks. He has 33 sacks in 8 years. Averaging a little over 4 sacks a year.
Michael Bennett was an UDFA. Definitely has turned into a hell of a player. But with his college production and measureables he wasn't even deemed draftable. For as good as he has been. Double digit sacks once in his career. Playing with the legion of boom and a defense consistently one of the best in the league helps the guy for sure.
Speed is definitely not everything. But it is a part of the equation.
The success rate of 5.0sec 40 4-3 DEs is probably stupidly low. Probably low enough to make you question pulling the trigger on one in the top 10.
Joey Bosa ran a 4.88 at the combine, the only numbers that can be fairly compared across years and players.
Charlton was very productive in that year. You can argue that when the light comes on it is on. Malik Hooker only had one year of production and people have him as a top 10 pick, which I don't know I see it and I am an OSU fan.
Ayers has been a good player for a long time, sacks is only part of the equation. When he was in NY on a good D line you saw what he was able to do. It is very similar to what I said about Allen, when he is on a team he can't be doubled he will succeed
Bennett was believed to be the same tweener Allen is now, but what he shows is a guy with those measurables can be successful at DE.
