Joseph Ossai

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(12-19-2023, 10:58 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Are we ready to close the book on him yet?

He's been an absolute ghost this year. I, like many, had high expectations for him coming into the year after he "kind of" flashed last year...but he's been a major dissapointment.

Looking back, I think the writing is on the wall from some organizational moves that he just may not be the guy. Extending Hendrickson and drafting Murphy in the first round is what I'm talking about.

Murphy has been increasing his snap count as the season goes on and Ossai has been decreasing his. He's only played in about 10% of the defensive snaps over the last few games and he didn't even record a snap in the Steelers game.

He's only 23 and Im not sure if he's been battling injury or what - but he's only got another year left on his rookie contact...time to put up.

Ossai was basically a traits based prospect coming out of college.  Some of these guys develop.  Others don't.  On top of that, he's had a lot of injuries and that has probably negatively affected his development.

However, he's still cheap depth on a rookie contract, so there's really not much reason to push to replace him as the 5th DE.