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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I mean, I'm acting like I didn't think he was a day 2 prospect, yeah.
I didn't see it when we made the pick and never saw it at any point. I don't know where 'really good measurables' came from because what his measurables point to where a bunch of parts that don't make a whole.
He wasn't agile enough to play edge, though admittedly few pegged him there. He wasn't long enough to be a 3-4 DE. So what you're really looking at is someone would seemingly be an under-tackle in a 4-3.
The problem is he wasn't nearly powerful enough to play IDL. And while a 4.87 40 is good for a DT it's also largely irrelevant. He didn't have any measurables that qualified as 'really good' that actually fit with the rest of his tools to make an actual football player.
He was a tweener and that's exactly what I said at the time. He simply didn't have a home.
And yeah, there have been plenty of SEC players who played better than Speaks but who ultimately just didn't have a complete set of tools. Michael Sam would be an immediate and obvious example.
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Point me please to where you said any of this shit before he was drafted. We ran a 3-4 at the time. His profile was a 3-4 5T.