NFL Draft Diary: The Mountains Are In The Trenches. D-Line Prospect.
The lackluster Group Of Arms in This NFL Draft couldn't break the Hypnotic Hold. The Quarterback Position Emits Over The Football World.
But The The Defensive Line Might Just Break The Fourth Wall On The Entire Conversation.
The Combine Ended A week Ago. The Measurements, Drill assessments, and Performance times Stand Unchanged In Stone and The Shocks and Awe aren’t Going To Change Much between Now And April. At least Until Pro Days.
The Player WhO Punch In Those Numbers Are Going To Have Their Performance Carved and Studied By Pundits Looking For Hot Take and Teams trying To Save Themselves The Latest Chapter In Draft Negligence. Otherwise, We’ve Seen The Best Of The Physical Assessment, And What, The Interviews Revealed, are Logged away. Another chapter in the four-decade-long Catalogue is the Growing Books Of The Best Prospects. The Book Is Genuinely Solidified in Itself.
But that’s not All Just Yet.
History And empiricism don’t make great content. Neither does it Leave Room For Growth and “FUN.”
By Now, You Have Heard Some Of The Glorified Track Speed Put On Display. It’s Premiere Event. It's 40 Yard Dash and It’s the Darling Of Screen time.
Some Prospect Put All Of Their Effort Into Excel At The Speed Drills. Such as the Soon-to-be-referenced Travon Walker.
“I set a goal for myself: …. I wanted to hit a 4.5, and I know I can hit 4.5. Went out there and did it.” Georgia Defensive End Travon Walker After He Sprang Loose In Indy At 4.51 On The Official 40 Time. His Devotion May Pay Big dividends.
Walker and The Platoon of Georgia Bulldogs finished with the Most Eye-Popping Results. Along with teammates Jordan Davis Deonte Wyatt, amongst Others. Suppose they are nothing more than Just That, eye Popping.
Most 40 Results Won’t Mean Much For most of These Prospects Success And Production. Outside Say The Cornerbacks And That’s If The Structural Foundation Of Their Skills Complements The Shear Speed.
Still, Some team Will Take A Shot On the “Anonymous Blank” Out Of Nowhere State Because He Had An Above average Thursday In Indianapolis. The Tape Retake Solidified that position's Strength. “I Turned On The Tape, And I Was Blown Away.”
It's worth noting That a guy named Cole Kelley, Quarterback, Looked Good, Dusting Those Scripted Routes, Though.
“Nobody knows anything. It’s all Just a Big Gamble.”
Despite the remarkable performance and the Recent Defensive Evolution, the quarterbacks by Demand worked their way into position to steal the show.
The Guideline the NFL Erected To Force NFL Coaches Off Of Their Questionable Stratagems For Prying Character Information From Prospect. No More “Sexuality” Prying.
Respectfully The Best Writer Found a Way To Place The Spotlight Unto The Quarterback. After All, If The Prospects Boycotted The 40-Year-Old Event, as Some Agents Proposed to Do, Then The Many Headline of The Five Days Would Have Amount To Nothing If one Or More Guys Didn’t Sneak Into The First.
Reports Of Kenny Pickets Small Hands overshadow you. A Pitt Panther, Pinkett has The Smallest Hands Concerning NFL Starts. In Workouts He Wore Gloves, and If You Look Close, Which Scout have and will, You think “ that’s Going To Be a Problem.”
.The NFL Pandering To Drive down The Stock Of Whomever Their Team Intends To Draft Early. The Dialogues Often Boil Down To Nothing But Incantatory Self Fulfilling Prophesy When They Talk Themselves Into A Guy
It’s the league's most critical position, and it’s the most unfortunate to judge. Even With No Top Ten Talent Arousing the “it Factor” node On The Prospector Meter, Some Team Will fall in alive With Arm And Promise and Reach.
But That reach Won’t Come as High as One.
Who’s At the apex Of the 2022 NFL Draft, The Predators, Of course.
The Defense Strikes Back In This Draft. The Number Of Defensive Prospects, And more Consequentially Down Lineman Available Early And Later Of All Variety Are Pulling The Chains That The Churns This Draft board Number Ranges I Haven’t Seen Before. It’s Top To Bottom.
Since Myles Garrett(Who went Number One in 2017 ) has Defenders Threatened The Number 1 Spot. Not Since 2014 has A Draft Been Define Be The Caliber Of The Steak and Potato Guys.
In 2014 Rear Talents At Pass Rusher Such As Jadeveon Clooney, Khalil Mack, And Aaron Donald Dominated The Rank Of A Draft And Still Continue To Mostly Define the after It at That position. Except for the Wide Receiver, the D-Line Looks Poised To Make The Greatest Dent In The First Round that Year. With both Mack and Clowney going to Ten and the Most Prominent, Aaron Donald not Shortly After.
Since then, Aaron Donald Has Reshaped The League. When The Burly Slightly Undersized Boulding Ball Came Out If Pitt Scouts Shoehorned him In A PRINCIPLe 4-3 Three Technique.
Despite being Incredibly Light On His Feet, At Just 6’ 285, His Measurement Made Him D-Line Diversified Defeccient. A FEW pounds Lighter He Could Make the Linebacker Squad. But Donald's Unique Strength, Even At His Build, And His Wide Frame Came And Canonical Instinct, Engineered To Plug Gaps And Run Fits.
Along Way with The Donald Morph Into A Different Beast. Strength and Conditioning refined His Build. Necessity and Demand Refined His Technique. in 2015, He Earned oNe Of Profootballs Highest Grades Ever At 99.9, and He’s Never Slowed Since.
Not To Mention Winning Defensive Player Of year Three Times.
In 2018 Donald Nearly Ran Down Every Quarterback In The League and The League’s Sack Record. Without Optics, It's Difficult To Put Into Words why an Interior guy should be that Good.
Its Refinement That Dates Back Hill School. In the League as Coaching Staffs Change. Responsibility And Scheme Change As Well.
Donald, The Prototype 3-Technique, Has to Deploy his Inhuman Strength all Across The Line. Some Have Argued That He’s The Best Football Player On The Planet, Positional Differences Aside. The Force Of Nature That He’s Become In The Nine Years Since The Day The Rams Drafted Him 13th In 2014. An Inside Defensive Lineman Making The Difference For The Rams’ Super Bowl Run.
Donald Shifts The Advantage Of The From Its Lowest Vintage Point: The Ground.
Where Footballs Most Basic Struggle Of Power. Admittedly Angle And Reflex But Ultimately Power and Force. When The Intelligence and The Terminologies Breakdown It’s still a game of blocking and tackling.
Defensive Lines Have to Evolve To reflect Tye Growing Of Coverage Units. Which Ever Front a Defense line Deploys To a gate The Offensive Structure Usually Hinges On What Coverage The Intend To Play On The Back. Cover Three Match Zones, Team With The Neeve To Play Cover Two. This Offense Mirrors The Offenses Agenda.
The Down Line a Team Can Use To Plug Holds, Fill Gaps, Hold Run Fits Win One On zone And Move Piles Or Swing Out To The Edge The more Defensive Back Can Be On The Feild and Drop Deep Or Play Box Depending On Demand.
Defensive lines are no longer about sacks, TFLs, and Pressures Though Those Matter Greatly. How Many Guys Do You Have That Can Rush Cross-Dimensionally?
Think Of Guys Like Donald and JJ Watt. Not Those Two Exclusively But the Mood The Inhabit. Both are Encompassing Titans Of The trenches. JJ Watt Dominated across The Line For a Decade. Voters Had Trouble Distinguishing Him Between DT and DE; They Voted Him Into the AP At Both Slots In 2018.
Versatility Vs. Dominant Skill Set. A-Line From PFF And It's what This Draft Will Come Down to At Its Highest Point.
It’s not enough to just shove large humans into these spots. Direct Them To Gap and Assume that their girth will be a run defense.
You’ve heard of some of the Edge Defenders In This Class Already; Jermaine Johnson, Aidan Hutchinson, and Kayvon Thibodeaux bUt The Depth teach For Beyond Those Names...
David Ojabo
The Second Half Michigan Tag Team Terrorizers in The Trenches. The Less Refined More Bendy Speedy Athletic Force Of The Two. David Ojabo Found Himself In The Shadow Of Aidan Hutchison Taking On The Lighter Attention Of The Opponents Gameplan.
If Ojabo Continues To Develop, He Could Become The Best Of this Esteemed Class.
Where David Ojabo Separate Himself From His Teammates and The Rest Of This Class-Exclusive To Kayvon Thibodeaux. Ojabo uses A lot More Finesse and Instinct To Outmaneuver around The lineman Opposite Him At The Snap Of The Ball.
I do Mean Around—an unadulterated 5 Technique For Standing Edge 3/4 Outside Linebacker Position. From A Purely Downhill Rusher, Ojabo Doesn’t Use His Hand, Technique Or Strength. The Nigerian Born Standing At 6’5 250 Ojabo Has The Natural Feel For The Angles On The Edge.
He Rounds Corners Off Tackles with the Sharpness Of An Architect's Acuity for Degree. Snapping Back To Dislodge Grapes and Converting Liquid Like Elusiveness Into Power to Finish Defensive Stops. Ojabo Had 11 Sack This Seasons And 13 Tackles For Loss. But The Potential Breaches The Stats.
It’s His Movements, Almost Clay-Face Like. He Absorbs The Force and Presses His Bod through The Cracks that Open On Collision Seamlessly.
Not a Natural Bull Rusher Ojabo Wrecks tackles With Double Moves.
Jab Steps, Stutters to Create Misdirection. He Utilized the Dwight Freeney spin On Occasion And Held His Balance.
He Forces Lineman High on Passing Down Taking Them One On One Before Break inward Towards The Quarterback. Suppose Its A One On One Trust Ojabo To Beat The Block. He took advantage of being underrated in his one year of full-tine play at Michigan, but the NFL Won’t Be Caught Off Guard By This Behemoth.
The Negative On Ojabo Start With His Lack Of Strength. He Still Has To Bulk up More To Build On The Speed He Utilizes So Well And Gets Him Luck In On Block When His Speed Can’t Be Transfer Into Downhill momentum. Exclusively An Outside Mover. Limited production Outside Of The Five Tech. Can Get Push up and Off His Spot By Falling In Love With Wide Angles.
Ojabo Himself Has Admitted To Still Learning and Growing in The Game. He’s Only Five years Into Playing, And His Meteoric Rise Can’t Be Understated. Now Ojabo Transition Into Understanding Blocking Tendencies and Double Team Will Matter mOre Than His Brute Physical ForcE.
Pro Comp: Ziggy Ansah
George Kalfis
When the College Ranks occupied Tending To The NFL’s Unyielding Lust For Speed It Retracing The Evolution Of Football So To Appeal The NFL’s Growing Need For Power. If Power Had Form And Mass, It Would Look Like George Kalafatis. The 6’4 260 Galactus of Man Out Of Purdue. He was known To Some As The “Greek Freak” Kalaftis, The Boilermaker SteamRolls Offensive Lines With Hooverdam Like Pressure. At 6’4, Kalaftis did Most Of Hos Damage Out Of Outside 5 Tech Like Ojabo Above. Unlike Ojabo, Kalaftis Stands about 30lbs Heavier Which Also Allow Kalaftis To Put His Hands In The Ground To Play Four Tech Right Over The Nose Of The Tackle in Sample Size. But That’s Plus On Report Most Of His Damage Got Done On The outside. That Damage Equated To Fifteen Career Sacks and 23 Tackles For Loss In His Career. A True Enforcer On The Edge Kalaftis Won’t “Wow” with Moves. He presses above or through Tackles. His 32 plus inch arms, Not Plus Size, But His Quick Ahmad’s Made It Nearly Impossible For Tackle to lunge or grapple With Him To Clog His air Space. Impressively Timing Off The Edge At The Snap Of The Ball. Flashes High To Get Tackles Off Balanced. According to pro football focus, it finished Near The 100 Percentile In Pass Rush Last Season.
Travon Walker-Georgia
Georgia’s Defense Had a Record-Setting Season. Aside From Alabama, College Teams Had a Herculean Task putting Touchdowns On The Board Against A Defense that Could Only Be Compare To Itself. Georgia Spent Most Of It’s Time In SEC Play Holding Teams sub-Double Figures On Finals. With the few Exceptions Coming SEC And National Championship Aside, The Bulldogs Practically Unhinged Every Offense Of Every Team They Face.
With The Rising Number Of First Round Talent On The Board For The National Champions, It’s No Wonder. I Don't Mean Rising In Volume But Rank. Nearly Every One Of Georgia Eligible To Draft Players On Defense, From Jordan Davis To Derion Kendrick, Kicked up the ladder at The Combine, And The March Up The Draft Boards Could Potentially Mean Two Defenders From The Team Go Top Ten. Aside From Maybe Linebacker Nakobe, Dean Travon Walker Has The most descript transplantable skill even If The Production Doesn’t Match At Points.
Standing 6’ feet 272 Pounds. Walker Doesn’t Always Play as Big As His Specs indicate, But His Impact And Upside Are Unmistakable. The Former 5 Star,
Walker Played Four Tech, Right Over The Tackle, On Some Snaps Out On The Edge Most Other. His snap Played Last Season Were Relative, Sub 600(596) around The Edges Of Ojabo and Thibodeaux but Well Under Johnson and Demarvin Neal, Another Sought after Pass Rusher In The Class. In those Numbers, Walker Racked Up 5 Sacks and 5 Tackle For Loss.
You Have To Wonder Whether Georgia’s Depth Affected his Production If The Team Disguised some Of His Misgivings. Georgia Shifted Many Of Its Base Formations, e.g., 4-3, 3-4, 46 Changing Walkers playing Reps And Responsibilities As The The pass Set Transmogrified.
“Things are Transformed one into another to Necessity….”
At Georgia, the Necessity For Constant Force Didn’t Always Demand Walkers Attention.
According to PFF, from The 6’5 Bull Dog, Defensive End Drop Back Into Coverage 26 Times.
Otherwise, He Spent Less Than Remarkable Snaps sliding Inside, For What Looked Mostly like experimental If not Ineffective, Reps.
He’s An Edge, And it's Not Suggested To Use Him Much Anywhere Else. Best Suited For A 4-3 Team With Hands In The Dirts.
Walker has Incredible length with 35 Inch Arms 84 1/4 Wingspan In Class Of His Own In class and Nearly Never Gets Absorb By The Mass Of Tackles When Engaged—always Leaving a Vacuum Between Him and the Opponent.
Dislodges blocks To Pursuit scramblers And Ball Carriers. Incredible In Strong Pursuit Off The Line. Excellent When at Using Leverage to offset Pulling Guards and Instinctual Reading Tackle Position. Walker doesn’t Use His Hands Much, Nor Has He Shown A Particularly Profienncy With Ruch Moves. May Need To Scheme Into The one On One Wins.
You hear the phrase “head of Steam” A lot.
Not Particularly Strong Off The Get Up Rather On Roll. This Matches Well With His Length But Walker Can Get Push Off His Line By More Powerful Lineman. Finished With a Below Average Grade As A Pass Rusher. In Both Rating And Win Percentage But As In 70 Percentile As A Run Defender.
After His Blistering Combine Results, Travon has Push Nearly Every Pass Rusher Off The Board. He Has Rising, In Rumors, To Be Possibly Be in Play At Pick Two.
Pro Comp: Trey Flowers
