DE in first round.

[Benton]

(03-21-2018, 05:15 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Jordan Willis is getting too m uch love here.

He has done nothing to show that he can be a good NFL DE.

Will Clarke and Margus Hunt both had better seasons than Willis in '17.  Maybe we can bring back one of those studs if Dunlap leaves.

Willis in 2017 had 17 tackles, 8 assists, 1 sack.
Hunt in 2013-2016 (his 4-year Bengal run) had 16 tackles, 13 assists and 1.5 sacks.

Willis' trajectory so far is higher. In one year he's got comparable stats to 4 years worth of Hunt. Plus, he can play football whereas Hunt did that wander-around-and-fall-onto-people thing. Which, admittedly, in his fifth season he's seemed to perfect into a marginally better season than Willis' first year playing.

And Clarke had 1.5 more sacks in 2017 than Willis, but around 40% less tackles. Soooo... that's subjective on "better."