Not what I was expecting, but I see the fit.

Not sure he ever is much more than what he is currently, but that can be a productive player, too.

How is this dude a “definite upgrade” on Wharton? Wharton got 6.5 sacks last year and landed a $54M contract. ONL might be a fine player one day but I think we’re expecting too much if we think he’s going to be an upgrade compared to Wharton in year 1. It usually takes these defensive linemen a couple years of development anyway.

Getting Rakeem Nunez-Roches vibes.

Chris Jones struggled against the run for years.

I mentioned Dre'mont Jones as a guy here reminded me of a bit last week.

And Jones never really did get a ton better. But he's had a nice NFL career being exactly the guy he always was.

Brett Kollman says this guy has the highest pass rush metrics for all college DT in the last 10 years .

Yeah - there are folks online giving this pick the worst grade of the DRAFT so far and the reason is pure confirmation bias.

"We didn't have him ranked this high..."

But he has an OBVIOUS nfl skill and a high value one at that.

I can see preferring a different position or trait - fine. But ONL is gonna be a valuable NFL player.

Never understood how a guy that can get to the QB on the interior like he does was ranked so low by so many.

YouTube guys like Kollman, Sikkema, Rogers and some of the other draft guys I listen to all loved him. Yet the more plugged in people like DJ were very low on him.

I was actually thinking a bit of Nick Fairley who ironically was the comp for Jones.

They really need to add a 5 yard split to the combine to measure as well as a first step explosion metric bc ONM’s 1.79 10 yd split doesn’t do him justice. He’s extremely quick off the snap and has long arms, enormous hands and a solid set of pass rush moves.

Wharton didn’t quite put it together until last year. I think ONM can give us 2024 Wharton this year bc his ceiling is higher.

Thank God we took guys with pass rush ability like bc I never understood the appeal for guys like Alfred Collins who had size but wasn’t that much of a pass rusher aside from a strong bull rush.

6'2 291 is pretty small for DT, but he appears to have the motor and quickness to be a solid disruptor

Should I be thinking about him as a slightly heavier, but better pass-rushing upgrade on Wharton?

Oh no. If he's only a highly disruptive rotational pass rusher whatever will we do :(

Imagine a John bones jones vs Butterbean mma fight with both in their prime and watching them beat on each other. That’s how undersized DLinemen succeed

Again can someone tell me why this guy played only 17 snaps per game? Wasn't even a starter?

Tennessee had a philosophy of rotating their defensive linemen, and had a deep group. This is what I'm told.