Safety/Linebacker Hybrid

[SunsetBengal]

(03-22-2020, 06:57 PM)JerseyDD09 Wrote: How could you not add Antoine Winfield Jr. to that Safety list?
Here's how NFL.Com grades them out and I'm a big fan of blood lines and players. Just look at our own Geno Atkins. I hope Winfield falls to them somewhere. He was the most impressive to me in the combine drills as well.

McKinney---Graded of 6.38
Winfield Jr---Grade of 6.36
Ashtyn Davis---Grade of 6.33
Kyle Dugger----Grade of 6.32
Grant Delpit----Grade of 6.30

Here's where my team building philosophy deviates from the numbers that you have listed.  I would take Jeremy Chinn, all day, every day, over those guys for a few very specific reasons.  Body size is the first, 6'3" 215 with 32.125" arms, and still ran a 4.45. That frame and length can't be duplicated in a smaller bodied player, and I don't think that he's done growing yet.  Secondly, he was a big fish in a small pond at Southern Illinois, he was likely bored and didn't get the advanced development from playing in a major program, meaning that the sky is still the limit as this guy develops into a grown man's game.

If the Bengals are serious about 3-4 hybrid defense, this is the guy I want developing into that "Star" position player.