Jonah Williams Will Upgrade LT

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(03-29-2020, 12:48 PM)Bilbo Saggins Wrote: Fact: They all had injury problems. Even if 0% of the rest is accurate, they all had injury problems. All of them. 
Fact: Williams has underwhelming measurables for an OT according to the chart that I had linked. The player comps who had similar measurables weren't elite players.
Fact: Ross didn't have good WR production by first round standards.
Fact: There were draft sites that had Ogbuehi graded as a 3rd rounder. In hindsight he should've been a UDFA.

Sure, game tape is valuable. Being able to block college dudes who scrub out of the pros is more impressive than not being able to block them. At some point, the rubber hits the road. A 180lb 5'6 guy isn't going to be an all-pro OT. Maybe taking premium athletes with good production and no injury history is better than taking guys with massive injury red flags, poor production, and/or 5th round measurables? Maybe? Am I nuts?

Actually Williams was a consensus first round pick and some scouts compared him to Joe Thomas. Ogbuehi was generally regarded as second round or low first (ironically Fisher who we took in the second was rated slightly higher). Ross was overdrafted based on the injury history, but no one could anticipate he would be so bad at playing the position. Likewise no one could have guessed the issues with Price. 

Yes we have had issues in the first round but part of it is just bad injury luck (there was nothing ahead of time warning that Williams or Price would be injured).