Newton or sweat?

[CJD]

I would take Newton.

Pass rushers are just...more valuable than run stoppers. At their absolute maximum potential reached, Newton could have a Chris Jones-esque impact on a pass rush.

At his absolute maximum potential reached, Sweat would be DJ Reader-esque.

I understand the argument that we are losing Reader in free agency (most likely), so we should replace him in kind, but we don't currently have a player like Newton on our roster and the players of the same profile in free agency will either demand around 25M AAV (Chris Jones, Christian Wilkins, Justin Madubuike), whereas the players like Reader (Grover Stewart, Daquan Jones, Shelby Harris) could likely be had for significantly less.

I think NTs also have a steeper development curve than 3T pass rushers from college to the NFL, although that's just a gut feeling. I don't have any statistics on that opinion.