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Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth
Ya know what would be cool?
If people shared their thoughts on his ability based on the tape available- +/-/comparisons to other guys, etc.
8000 posts whining about if or if not when we all know only time is going to answer the uncertainty I think is sufficient to have drummed out every take regarding his knee.
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I haven't done that.
Watching him athletically, the body size, the first comp I thought of was healthy D.J. Humphries. He was a really elite mover before the injury, if a touch on the smaller side for a LT.
He does have a lot more upper-body strength than guys you see who are that size, usually. Elite, perhaps, even.
The pre-injury package is pretty exciting based on his physical traits. His movement skills pop on play tape from this year, but his competition was also pretty meh, so it's hard to really tell how much of a jump he had made from 2023, when he was just an OK starter.
The only time I saw him live for an entire game was the Cotton Bowl. I don't remember Darius Robinson lining up over RE to match up against him much, but I do remember Johnny Walker winning from that side a few times, but Mizzou also ran junk fronts at times and would sometimes create weird matchups.
The healthy version of this player seems like an ascending guy with pretty close to perfect traits.