03-04-2021, 01:18 PM
(03-03-2021, 09:22 PM)Au165 Wrote: He was the 38th rated guard on PFF last year, remember that grades don’t translate well from position to position. With 64 starting guards in the league that places him at just below average but two years ago he was 13th so you could potentially bet on regaining that. As a second wave option you could do worse. Remember a bunch of people loved Spain here because he wasn’t a complete dumpster fire and he only graded at 56.4 last year.
Is that 56.4 at guard or 56.4 overall as he played some tackle last year?
(03-04-2021, 11:03 AM)SErebel11 Wrote: To put it in perspective, is the team better off getting Thuney for his projected 4 years/57M (14.25M per) or Jackson for 5-6M and Curtis Samuel who is projected around 3 yrs/27M (9M per)? Admittedly, those are pff projections and I don't know how close to being accurate those are.
Can't say I'd be at all keen on Jackson for 6m. He seems to be a player on the decline and there's some suggestion that he's struggled with the Raiders since they moved to a zone blocking system like the Bengals are seeking to use.
I wouldn't see signing him as fixing the problem and probably at best just delaying it for a year.
Now if they want to bring him in as a secondary move on a relatively cheap contract behind signing someone like Moton (if he were to escape the franchise tag, which seems highly unlikely) or Thuney I could get a bit more on board with it.
