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Originally Posted by staylor26
Oweh was pretty productive in 2019 though. He had 6 sacks. He’s shown that he can produce, but this was a weird year. These guys never even got into a groove playing 7 games without playing every single week. I’m telling you though, he absolutely got better regardless of the drop in production. It’s obvious when you watch 2019 tape and 2020 tape.
Chris Jones never had more than 3 sacks in a season. He wasn’t nearly as productive as he was disruptive. The comparison is more than appropriate, but disagree all you want.
Look, you guys can be scared off from the lack of production this year all you want, but it’s pretty obvious that you haven’t really watched the guy play. I’ll go a step further and say I don’t think any of you, other than crow, have even done your homework on the guy at all. I can just tell.
Just about all the experts and the draft community are higher on this guy than CP is. There’s a a reason for that.
I was anticipating this kind of reaction, because like I said, he’s absolutely going under the radar here.
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He absolutely played better, especially run defense. That said, he struggles getting pressure and getting home altogether. He falls further against better competition. He has a thin frame and lacks any real power. At this point he opens himself up to lineman too much, he doesn't have the get-off you'd expect for his measurables, and he has no clue how to string together anything. He doesn't use his hands overly well. He's raw as hell. He is PURE height, weight, speed. You have to coach this kid up a ton. He should have stayed in college another year. I'm not taking that in round 1. Take him? Yes, absolutely. I'd take the raw product and hope I could mould it over the next couple of years, because that is likely what it will take, but I'd do it in round 2 or 3.
Tryon is light years beyond him in development but still needs some work, is also young and not fully matured, and has similar measurements. I'd take Tryon over Oweh every single day of the week and twice on Sundays with no reservations or hesitation. I've seen Tryon supplanting Oweh in several mocks recently, and I think a large part of that is ability to affect the QB right now.
Not a single NFL team has taken an edge rusher that has registered zero sacks in his final season in college going back for at least the past 20 years and the average is around 10 sacks. That's a huge, and I mean huge, discrepancy. Oweh's former teammate, Yetur Gross-Matos, was twice the player Oweh is at this point and coming off back-to-back 8+ sack seasons and still dropped to 38. To compound that, last year's draft saw Gross-Matos be the 2nd pure DE taken. This draft is far more loaded at the position than last year's.