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Originally Posted by RunKC
Well here’s the list of tackles drafted. Feel free to show us which one of these in the last handful of years is a good starting LT that actually fell to 20 or later bc from what I’m seeing it’s Darrisaw and that is literally it.
http://www.drafthistory.com/index.php/positions/t |
Crow alluded to it somewhere in the draft forum when he made a distinction between Kingsley the prospect and Kingsley the 2025 player.
I think he was asked if Simmons was a better prospect than Kingsley (yes) but that doesn't mean he is a better PLAYER in 2025 than Kingsley, with a year under his belt, would be.
We can - we WILL - develop a homegrown LT. We're honestly not THAT far away from it with Morris. I do think he was largely passable until the knee got too bad to continue playing on. He might still have more room for growth.
Maybe it'll be Kingsley.
And hell, maybe it will be someone that we draft in the late 1st. But that guy is GOING to need to be coached up. A lot. If we're looking to get ourselves a home-grown LT, that's going to be a guy who gets a redshirt year if we take him in the 1st or 2nd or wherever.
I think, right now, there is NO harder position, quarterback included, to find a year 1 starter than OT. Especially LT. It's just a brutal, brutal position to find talent at. And for the most part you're going to have to be willing to play the long game.
That's a pretty tough sell for this team.