Great analysis per usual @Liberty City El. I'm interested as to your assessment of Joe Jackson as it relates to the draft.Take the shades off, Willis had a great year but he's not a 1st round can't miss prospect.
Fans are never realistic when it comes to draft evals, it's always either too high or too low.
This is an extremely deep draft for DLinemen, GM's & Scouts do everything by draft grade & value for the pick, meaning they'll drop or raise players based on where they would want them in the draft.
Willis is a 3rd-5th round pick, at the very very best he could get picked in the 2nd which is highly unlikely.
He's a great pass rusher & is disruptive in the backfield, he'll be a steal for whoever drafts him, but there's enough for teams to drop him in the draft & get value out of his pick.
You're looking at it from a fan's point of view, not as an NFL scout.
With all respect to Willis, he spent 5 years in college and had 1 complete year of playing.
Also, despite not putting the film in your face, at least he had a solid reasoning for his 4th round grade of Willis instead of saying "he's too short" or some dumb **** like the 247 evaluators said about Nesta. An expected 4th round grade for a DT that can't stop the run (in his opinion) and has off the field issues that you're HOPING was addressed as a draft agent...it's not THAT far fetched. Now if he's saying all these things about Willis and then turns around and say the HIGHEST he'd possibly be drafted is in the 4th round, which in draft talk is a completely different thing, then I agree with calling bull****. Because then that says he has no elite traits/abilities that a team would be willing to take a chance on his deficiencies with an earlier round pick.
1 complete year? You're completely clueless if you think he's had 1 complete year
I mean, how are these results 4th round quality?
Regardless of where Willis goes in the draft, I took the OP's thread to be about the ****** analysis by the twitter guy. And, it was a ******, superficial analysis of game play. Unless he has come around and provided examples for his conclusions, I'll chuckle at "he often abandons his gap" comments considering the "analyst" doesn't have a f'in clue what the assignment might have been or is downplaying what our upfield scheme asks the 3T to do. Lot of bull**** is going to fly around this time of year.
Are you saying this precludes substantive analysis via multiple posts or the half dozen other ways commentators deliver messages with depth?FYI, Twitter has a 280 character limit.
You assume that 18th means 18th draft eligible DT, which it doesn't. Same analytics team, Pro Football Focus, has him as the 85th overall player from last season, including players not in the draft this year.His overall grade at the position was 18th. That sure seems like 4th round quality...
I think it's been so long since we've had truly elite players that we think 18th at a position is something special. It's not. It's really good, but it's certainly not special. If you think that's "special", you must think there are 100+ "special" players per year.