Where are some of your personal favorites from last year? Mine are a mixed bag.

Troy Fuatanu: THIS is who I wanted when our pick came up. He was impressive when he saw the field but he was oft injuried during PS and is now gone for the season w/ a knee.

Brain Thomas: If we were going to try to replace TB I wanted Brian Thomas, he ended up going a couple picks after us and is one of the few bright spots in Jax. Mims may be a better long-term pick, but our record would be better than 1-4 if BTJ was on the squad


T-Vondre Sweat: He was who I wanted if we wanted to replace DJ. PFF currently has him w/ a 80.1 rating


Kingsley Suamatia: If you asked me before the draft you can have Mims in the first or Kingsley in the 2nd, who you want. I would not have hesitated to pick Kingsley. KC did him no favors by starting him at LT so young and Trey put a quick end to that experiment

Jared Verse was chosen the very next pick after Mims.  He was named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Month for September.,

Rd 1: I wanted BPA Quinyon Mitchell: Targets 25 Complete 13 6 PDs Opp QB Rating: 76.6
also Jer'Zahn Newton: played in 3 games for Washington. Has a horrible pff score despite 5 tackles in 55 snaps.

Rd2: Liked Zach Frazier IOL. Starting for Steelers at center. 0 penalties, 0 sacks, 3 pressures.
Also liked Blake Fisher( stuck behind Laremi Tunsil) and Rosengarten (top run blocker in the NFL), but not after Mims pick.

(10-05-2024, 04:49 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Where are some of your personal favorites from last year? Mine are a mixed bag.

Troy Fuatanu: THIS is who I wanted when our pick came up. He was impressive when he saw the field but he was oft injuried during PS and is now gone for the season w/ a knee.

Brain Thomas: If we were going to try to replace TB I wanted Brian Thomas, he ended up going a couple picks after us and is one of the few bright spots in Jax. Mims may be a better long-term pick, but our record would be better than 1-4 if BTJ was on the squad


T-Vondre Sweat: He was who I wanted if we wanted to replace DJ. PFF currently has him w/ a 80.1 rating


Kingsley Suamatia: If you asked me before the draft you can have Mims in the first or Kingsley in the 2nd, who you want. I would not have hesitated to pick Kingsley. KC did him no favors by starting him at LT so young and Trey put a quick end to that experiment

It helps playing on a DL with Jeff Simmons, Harold Landry, and Arden Key, but yea Sweat is doing well.
He is the only other DT I wanted to try to replace Reader. The other was who the Bengals ended up taking but has only 9 defensive snaps in 1 game played so far - McKinnley Jackson.

The amusing thing about Jackson? He has 1 pressure in just 9 defensive snaps while Zach Carter has just 2 pressures in 151 defensive snaps.
Very limited sample size, but Jackson played decent for his first NFL regular season game with very limited snaps.

If Jackson ended up panning out, could we see Jenkins and Jackson be the DT tandem of the future?
I would worry about lack of consistent pass rush between those two, but the run defense might be good.

Not one of my favourites at all, but a board fav and someone I said I couldn't see how anyone would think he's good and that it was Buckeye Homerism, it looks like I was right:

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/StovCa00.htm

Now, it's not even halfway through the season and his team is doing well, but he has done almost nothing.

All looking better and better by the week.

(10-21-2024, 10:31 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Not one of my favourites at all, but a board fav and someone I said I couldn't see how anyone would think he's good and that it was Buckeye Homerism, it looks like I was right:

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/StovCa00.htm

Now, it's not even halfway through the season and his team is doing well, but he has done almost nothing.

All looking better and better by the week.

I mean...he has Dalton Schultz ahead of him though.
Schultz is the starter at TE and is doing ok.
And they have 3 good WRs also taking targets - Collins, Diggs, and Dell

Texans don't run too many 2-TE sets, as Diggs and Schultz are both at 80% or more snap count and Collins and Dell are at 50% or more. Collins has missed 2 games, so he'd be closer to Diggs' percentage if he had played every game.

Stover's outproducing Ben Sinnott (2 rec for 6 yards) and Tip Reiman (1 rec for 5 yards), both of whom went on Day 2.
It's all about opportunity on the team they went to.
Sinnott has Ertz in front of him.
Reiman has McBride in front of him.
Stover has Schultz in front of him.

All correct. But people were calling him the second coming.

(10-21-2024, 05:30 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: All correct. But people were calling him the second coming.

I'm generalizing, but OSU fans will say that about all talented players and then eventually have to get some right. I'd probably do the same if any of my degrees were from a university with a big time program like OSU, Michigan, etc.