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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
What does he NOT do at an extremely high level?
Use Rice as a baseline. Find me anything that Rice did better coming out of college than Burden.
I can't find one. They played an extremely similar style - Burden just does all those things a little bit better.
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Originally Posted by RunKC
Brian Thomas Jr, Jared Verse, Quinyon Mitchell, Trent McDuffie. Happens every year.
They fall bc about 1/3 of the teams aren’t drafting BPA. They’re drafting to save their job.
Big run on specific players pushes guys down the board. We saw it last year when so many teams took QB and OL. This year there’s gonna be a shit load of DL and OL picked early pushing these guys down the board.
And somebody will take Shedeur or Dart too
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
His most notable traits -- physicality and body control/ball tracking -- are difficult to quantify.
It's why a guy like Adams falls. Hell, it's why Jefferson fell. They don't jump off the page in any single area. They're just guys that do a LOT of things really well and their best traits are easier to overlook than a guy like Worthy who runs fast or a guy like Tet McMillan who's just very damn big.
A 'sum of very strong parts' guy is just someone that's harder to project and doesn't always leap off your screen.
But I just struggle a TON to find a skill that isn't at least good for an NFL wide receiver. Maybe release?
All the rest of it is related to use. His route tree, his focus, his attitude, his snaps on the boundary. It's ALL use. Hell, even the release questions are mostly because Mizzou used him a lot in the slot or out of the backfield. When on the boundary, he generally did fine there in the limited times he was out wide and teams pressed him.
Purely from traits, there's nothing he doesn't do very very well.
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We're kinda talking different things there though.
Top 10 talents just don't end up in the 2nd round. Those guys you listed slid, to the mid first.
A guy available at the end of the first probably isn't waht's being claimed. Doesn't mean by any means he's not or won't end up a really good player.