Current Rumor Mill 3/25

[SadFaceBengal15]

(03-27-2020, 04:41 PM)samhain Wrote: It's awfully hard to predict how an o-lineman, even one as highly drafted as Jonah, will look when he finally gets on the field. He got mauled when he had to go up against Ferrell in the title game vs Clemson. He'll have to deal with a lot better DEs than him in the NFL. Having a guy like Jordan next to him probably isn't helpful, either. MJ may have potential from a physical standpoint, but he's still a developmental guy who will be working out many of the same issues that Jonah is. I'm not sure I love this combination on the left side in 2020. Maybe long-term, but not now.

Jonah also got flack for being a bit short-armed when he was scouted. I read evals saying he might project as an interior guy at the next level. Combine that with the fact that the dude that seems to have sold the team brass on him is the very same man that brought us the absolutely devastating, team mudereing (for a half-decade) Ogbuehi-Fisher draft after standing on the table for those two never-will bes, and you get a lot of uncertainty.

Hopefully all plays out well and he is an upgrade. The bar is certainly set low enough. Let's not act like he's some slam dunk. Not at this point. He hasn't earned anything but a shot. If he were an elite LT prospect, with the way this league is starved for OL, he wouldn't have been there for us to select him last year. I'm not crowning him anything until I see how it pans out.

EXACTLY!!