Feb Mock

[c12schleyer]

(02-16-2016, 02:50 PM)RoyleRedlegs Wrote: What quality edge rushers come in the later rounds? 

Here's the NFL sack leaders for 2015. I highlighted the non-first rounders and included rounds for you.


So if you use the most lenient use of "later rounds" and include the 4th round, that gives you 3 of 23 guys as "late round picks."

Does that seem like you can get "quality edge rushers" in the later rounds to you?

Geno is at his best, whenever he is on the field. 
He's never played with a DT of that caliber before so how would we know?
He wrecks when Sims, Peko or Gilberry are in at DT. It doesn't matter. He's an elite player. 

I can use numbers to show anything.  If you want to go back over the last 10 drafts and look at players drafted in the first that were supposedly pass rush specialists and tanked, I bet that list would be longer.  

I was using the words "later rounds" for any round following the first.  

And of the 22 you reference, only 4 are DT.  That lowers the odds that Rankins will live up to expectations.  

We don't need someone to lead the league in sacks, we need a compliment player in the mid-late rounds that can get us 4-6 sacks a year.



This really is a moot point though... Rankins will get picked by a team like Detroit earlier in the 1st.