04-22-2021, 10:46 AM
(04-22-2021, 09:17 AM)TJ528 Wrote: Hey Nate hope things are good!
So this is where I question a very deep OL class.
Were these players good in college? yes they were very good in college.
So was Billy Price, so was Michael Jordan, and you can go down the list of misses on the offensive line.
Typically, if you draft an OL in the first round your going to hit. After that its a crap shoot.
So the experts can say oh this a deep draft for OL. They said the QB drafts are great in the past and you could pick one up in the first 2 rounds and win.
I mean you can look at the deep QB draft of 2019 and you had Kyler Murray who was the #1 pick who's going ot be good. Daniel Jones (mehh), Dwayne Haskins (cut once already), Drew Lock (still floundering), Will Grier (is he even in the league), Ryan Finley (he's so good we traded him), Jarrett Stidham (back up in NE).
So again all the experts can say how deep a draft is but until a player shows his potential on the field in the NFL that's all it's called is potential.
I understand we'll probably draft 3 or 4 OL in this draft and I'm fine with that, but you can't rely on rookies to block for your star player, who's coming off a major knee injury.
I think you need to distinguish between QB and other positions.
With QB teams want a top 5 player in his position and it's an all or nothing position.
But given the choice between the 30th best QB and the 30th best G teams are going to choose the G as a top 30 G is someone you can win with; a top 30 QB isn't.
A deep QB draft therefore means little when anything outside the top guys have limited use. On the O-line though a deep draft means multiple players in the mid-rounds you can win with. A deep draft means that players who would have been in the first round in other drafts would fall into the second, so the second round is then no longer a crap shoot at that position (I'd also suggest that the second round isn't a crap shoot for interior linemen - eg Whit, Steinbach, Bujnoch)
