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Originally Posted by Semichief
Bingo. This isn't a binary situation where Simmons is either perfectly healthy or irreparably injured.
Simmons at 100% is a Pro Bowl or possible All-Pro caliber prospect. If Simmons only recovers to 80-90%, that is a starting caliber LT prospect. Wouldn't we take that at 31 and have years of cost-controlled steady play there? I think so.
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If he recovers to 90% he's out of the league before his rookie contract is over.
How do you guys continue to miss this fact?
Guys that are 90% healthy aren't 90% as good. The NFL doesn't start at zero. It STARTS at the 90th percentile. There's a decade long selection filter that ensures that guys who are 90% as good as the guys who actually make it in the league don't even get a SHOT.
This is just wrong. Absolutely and completely wrong.
90% of Aaron Donald MIGHT be an NFL football player. 90% of Trent Williams probably is.
90% of some rookie is....a UDFA.
It's just silly.