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Originally Posted by kccrow
This is patently false Run. He was never considered the top tackle nor a top 15 pick. He had the potential to be in that conversation had he not gotten injured and had he finished the year with great results against the top-tier competition on their schedule. He didn't and therefore never was. He has his warts, and whether or not he would have run that gauntlet that he missed unscathed and looked like a top tackle is debatable.
The player who was in that conversation was Banks. He's inexplicably been overanalyzed, and not a single reason seems to be legitimate for his stock tanking. Meanwhile, Campbell has maintained #1 status with a legitimate reason not to.
Conerly was beginning to get that talk, and then the Mike Green thing happened at the Senior Bowl, and he went from top-20 rankings (13 on McShay's board) to dropping out of round 1 on some, all for 1 meaningless practice snap.
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I’m not referring to what he was at the start of the season, only since February when draft season really began.
Supply and demand is why I think this. Not saying Simmons is an elite prospect. I think he’s good, and quite honestly there’s a tremendous amount of value in that, especially this year. Average LT’s are in huge demand bc there just aren’t very many good ones. It may be worse than QB now bc at least functional QB’s are attainable.
Campbell’s T-Rex arms are a huge deal. I’d bet money that he wouldn’t even be on KC’s draft board bc of that.
Simmons is the only LT prospect in this draft that has what teams are looking for as a complete package at LT. Size, strength, arm length (34 at pro day), technique, footwork. The projection is there despite missing time. Maybe Conerly can be that guy. Maybe. There’s a reason Dane Brugler has Kelvin Banks as a G in his draft guide. A ton of NFL folks think that.
Again there’s always going to be a huge need for competent LT’s. They are exceedingly hard to find these days. And it wouldn’t surprise me if a team like Miami takes that risk with Simmons on Thursday bc of that need.