The Shadow Predicts.....

[Smidgeon]

I just want a pro bowler. Haven't drafted one for a few years.

[mraynrand]

I just want a pro bowler. Haven't drafted one for a few years.

that remains to be seen

[Smidgeon]

that remains to be seen

Do you think any of the recent draft picks have that in them? I can think of Hayward, but if he can't stay healthy...

[mraynrand]

Do you think any of the recent draft picks have that in them? I can think of Hayward, but if he can't stay healthy...

Other than Hayward and Lacy, Daniels has a shot, and there are a lot of potential guys who are too young/have too long an injury history to tell yet: Neal, Perry, Bakhtiari, Jones, Hyde. Andrew Datko will not be a pro bowler.

[Smidgeon]

Other than Hayward and Lacy, Daniels has a shot, and there are a lot of potential guys who are too young/have too long an injury history to tell yet: Neal, Perry, Bakhtiari, Jones, Hyde. Andrew Datko will not be a pro bowler.

None of those listed really strikes me as the type of player that will rise above. They all may be good football players, but the only one I think has the potential there is Jones. And not because he flashed the pro-bowl potential (except the singular play where he walked the LT back for a sack), but because Dline can take a while to shine. Daniels, I think, will be roughly Cullen Jenkins level: not quite probowl, but still really good. Maybe I'm being wistian in my assessment of the potential talent of the draft picks aside from Lacy and Hayward, but outside those two, no player has come in and lit up the field since Clay.

[mraynrand]

None of those listed really strikes me as the type of player that will rise above. They all may be good football players, but the only one I think has the potential there is Jones. And not because he flashed the pro-bowl potential (except the singular play where he walked the LT back for a sack), but because Dline can take a while to shine. Daniels, I think, will be roughly Cullen Jenkins level: not quite probowl, but still really good. Maybe I'm being wistian in my assessment of the potential talent of the draft picks aside from Lacy and Hayward, but outside those two, no player has come in and lit up the field since Clay.

It's especially hard to tell, because Capers misuses everyone!

[ThunderDan]

I just want a pro bowler. Haven't drafted one for a few years.

In the last two years we have had the:
2012 D Rookie of the Year
2013 O Rookie of the Year

[Smidgeon]

In the last two years we have had the:
2012 D Rookie of the Year
2013 O Rookie of the Year

Touche. I keep forgetting Lacy. :$

[mraynrand]

In the last two years we have had the:
2012 D Rookie of the Year
2013 O Rookie of the Year

I thought Luke Kuechly won DROY in 2012 (AP) (Did Hayward get a different award?)

[Brandon494]

I thought Luke Kuechly won DROY in 2012 (AP) (Did Hayward get a different award?)

Hayward didn't win it