Tobin Likes Williams At LT?!

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(03-10-2021, 01:18 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: You can dismiss the blind side all you like, and you can bring up the pressure brougt on both sides, but you can't argue that the league doesn't value the LT position over the RT position.  There's a reason the 22nd best LT (well below average) makes more than the 10th best RT (above average).

You don't draft Penni Sewell at #5 to play RT.  I'm sorry, you just don't.

Now, if you're high on Jonah then that's great.  Although he was average last year that's a good start to a career.  He's not a really problem at the position if he can stay healthy.  But if you want to keep him at LT then it only makes sense to pass on Sewell and go elsewhere with the pick.  Hell, if you're dead set on drafting a RT in round 1 then trade out of the spot and pick up some picks for trading down.

Not even getting into the LT vs RT debate, but I think you can draft Sewell and play him at RT even if he doesn't play RT forever. Taking him and playing him at RT for a year while we see if Jonah can even stay healthy enough to play LT gives us the quickest line to improvement. After a year you move forward from there with potentially kicking Jonah to guard or swapping sides if Sewell is who people say he is and Jonah can stay healthy. If Jonah doesn't stay healthy you slide Sewell over and go back to the drawing board for the right side.

I am not in the Sewell at 5 camp anyways, but I think there is still a pretty reasonable way of approaching this without moving Jonah year 1.