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(04-27-2024, 04:12 AM)Whatever Wrote: Jackson was the #159 prospect, on average, so yeah, pretty big reach at #97.

That said, they needed a NT and there aren't many in this draft, so I understand the pick even if I wouldn't personally have made it.

Depends where you look.
NFLDraftBuzz had his average overall rank across all their scouting services as 116.1 pick.
There's a chance he would have gone off the board by the Bengals' 4th round pick.
And there really weren't many pure NTs in the draft.

If anything, they got a Tupou replacement. However, there are a lot of similarities to Reader when he came out of college, so I think Reader if Jackson's ceiling.
Either way, I think NT and run defense as a whole should be improved between Jenkins and Jackson.