Official 2019 Draft Thread

[Deputy Nutz]

Day 16

Cameron Smith LB, USC
Film: California, Texas

First Take: Smith understands the game of football, which from what I am told is important. He did a nice job at the combine on all the testing, but I think the tests are bit misleading in the case of Smith. He doesn't play with a lot of that athleticism. He doesn't get destroyed by blockers, and he doesn't lose a lot in the passing game, its just that he makes a lot of tackles by the shoe strings and that probably won't happen in the NFL. He struggles to take the ball carriers to the ground when he makes contact. He simply needs to get stronger across the board, better functional strength as well. His technique also needs to get better. Analysis puts him some where in day 3 of the draft.

[call_me_ishmael]

I know he's a bad dude, but if he's available at the 44, do you go Jeffrey Simmons for his upside? Could he be Fletcher Cox?

[pbmax]

Just putting this here as a placeholder.

Jim Nagy @JimNagy_SB
We just timed @OleMissFB TE Dawson Knox at 4.57 on his first 40. Losing Knox to injury was a huge disappointment for @seniorbowl. Iowa’s T.J. Hockenson is a very good prospect and justifiably getting first-round buzz but @dawson_knox is similar and nobody is talking about him.

Jim Nagy @JimNagy_SB
UPDATE: Knox just ran 4.51 on his second 40. These times should get him where he belongs...in the first-round conversation.

I actually looked at the Ole Miss vs. Alabama clips. He is 6' 4" and 250 but looks thin as a rail. He spent most of the game as an outlet in the flat or blocking an EDGE with a RB. He's perfectly willing to block, does a decent job of staying in front of people but has no anchor. On the 6 or so routes he ran, he looked like he could find space in the middle but Ole Miss's offense was so bad in this game I don't know what you can take away from it. There is no way you say first rounder with just this film.

[Deputy Nutz]

Ole Miss has like 6 or 7 draftable players on offense. What horrible production.

[call_me_ishmael]

I don't want the kids from Ole Miss that are certainly PED'd up and getting paid. Not to say every school isn't doing it but few schools make it as obvious as Ole Miss.

Anyone have a swim mask bong they can loan Ed Oliver so we can make a pre-draft video

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I don't want the kids from Ole Miss that are certainly PED'd up and getting paid. Not to say every school isn't doing it but few schools make it as obvious as Ole Miss.

Anyone have a swim mask bong they can loan Ed Oliver so we can make a pre-draft video

The only PED users are definitely at Ole Miss. No one else out there uses the stuff.

[MadScientist]

Mock Drafts are such a load of shit.

They are called mock drafts because you are supposed to mock them and the idiot that came up with them. I saw a 7 round mock a couple of weeks ago that had the Packers taking a TE in the mid rounds and everyone else was DE/EDGE. It looked more like a Packerrats draft contest entry than an intelligent analysis.

[run pMc]

Just putting this here as a placeholder.

Jim Nagy @JimNagy_SB
We just timed @OleMissFB TE Dawson Knox at 4.57 on his first 40. Losing Knox to injury was a huge disappointment for @seniorbowl. Iowa’s T.J. Hockenson is a very good prospect and justifiably getting first-round buzz but @dawson_knox is similar and nobody is talking about him.

Jim Nagy @JimNagy_SB
UPDATE: Knox just ran 4.51 on his second 40. These times should get him where he belongs...in the first-round conversation.

I actually looked at the Ole Miss vs. Alabama clips. He is 6' 4" and 250 but looks thin as a rail. He spent most of the game as an outlet in the flat or blocking an EDGE with a RB. He's perfectly willing to block, does a decent job of staying in front of people but has no anchor. On the 6 or so routes he ran, he looked like he could find space in the middle but Ole Miss's offense was so bad in this game I don't know what you can take away from it. There is no way you say first rounder with just this film.

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I don't get the Dawson Knox in Round 1 talk -- that's the first I've heard of that. The guy has very little production, and yes I get it's the fault of Ole Miss offense. There are at least 3 TEs who you can name that will get drafted before this kid. Maybe he'll be a good player, maybe he'll be Bucky Hodges.

Honestly, I don't get the idea of drafting a TE in the top 20 picks. They take time to figure out the pro game and unless you treat them as a glorified WR aren't likely to make an impact their rookie year.

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I don't get the Dawson Knox in Round 1 talk -- that's the first I've heard of that. The guy has very little production, and yes I get it's the fault of Ole Miss offense. There are at least 3 TEs who you can name that will get drafted before this kid. Maybe he'll be a good player, maybe he'll be Bucky Hodges.

Honestly, I don't get the idea of drafting a TE in the top 20 picks. They take time to figure out the pro game and unless you treat them as a glorified WR aren't likely to make an impact their rookie year.

I get it, it does seem like hype. I haven't gotten to any other film beside Alabama punching them into submission within 5 minutes, but it seems out of the blue. They had one effective play and it was a go route.

However, having seen some highlights of that team's offense from last year, as Nutz pointed out, it might be that draftable NFL talent isn't enough if your offensive design, the QB and the blocking are taking turns being terrible.

Which is a reason I still don't want Metcalf in the first round, but I am willing to consider that he was misused in that system.

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Lance Zierlein @LanceZierlein
Jachai Polite's 5.04 official 40 at pro day with slow 3-cone, poor broad jump and low bench press or going to likely drop him even more. Rare to get slower at the Pro Day than combine.

Daniel Jeremiah @MoveTheSticks
These things can all be true:
I love Aaron Donald
I love Ed Oliver
They both have elite quickness
Aaron Donald had much better hand usage & pass rush plan/execution/production. He didn't get uprooted vs run, Oliver does at times.
Ed Oliver will be a very good pro.

[wist43]

Yeah, Polite has gone from a top 15 pick to a 6th rounder in the span of 2 months. Never seen a guy drop like that... amazing.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Ole Miss has like 6 or 7 draftable players on offense. What horrible production.

2 reasons: the OC didn’t know how to maximize his players’ Kung Fus (that’s hip hop for skill sets) and QB #10 was a Brooks Bollinger clone.

The Miss-LSU game, the OC had Metcalf run mainly go and hitch routes. #10 was, well, Bollingersque. Notice that Greedy Williams shadowed Metcalf all game, not AJ Brown. proof that Metcalf is Wu Tang (that’s hip hop for awesome, more skillful than Brown). Metcalf gifted Greedy with a couple of drops.

[call_me_ishmael]

The only PED users are definitely at Ole Miss. No one else out there uses the stuff.

It’s a cultural thing. Where’s the production from any of these 5 star players who someone made their way to a crap school and rolled up in Lexus’s while a part of the NCAA?? They’ve all busted, even Tunsil is only
Okay is my understanding.

[call_me_ishmael]

Take Polite in round 3 and sack the quarterback. The tape speaks for itself but I agree the rest is eyebrow raising.

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