I really like it, mostly cause they picked a couple of crushes or borderline crushes of mine in Harmon, Bryant and Cooper. I don’t like Princely at 60 (and I don’t think he’ll be our FO’s bag either), but I can see the rest. Probably a little heavy on DB and not heavy enough on OL, but not bad for a 7 rounder.
I like Cooper quite a bit, though I would have preferred him as the 2nd OL drafted, rather than the only one. Harmon and Bryant I think are bargains, while I’d be fine with Strong and Ransaw. Those are a little higher than I have them but not by a ton.
I don’t like Umanmielen or Smith, but then that’s about how a real draft feels, right? Really like one or two picks, meh on a couple of others, don’t like a couple of others.
I think we only need one OL draft we will look at some UDFA The OL has like i said in another post few questions that only staff know true answer. How far Manu has progressed how well has Muti has healed. We don’t know if GG was playing hurt more than we thought his play slipped. We are developing a couple replacements Mahogany an Manu I don’t see a rush to draft more than one unless staff is not seeing the development they want. I agree add one an yes if one slis late sure based on there board but I don’t think we need to just reach for one late . Draft one in day 1 or 2 . to develop.
Muti has played in 22 games in his 5 year career with only 4 starts. I liked him coming into the league too, but the hope with him has to be that he’ll make the team, not that he’ll be someone we can rely on as a starter. IF he makes the team, then we can hope to get more out of him, but at this point that would just be gravy. Even if they love him.
Some people compare his situation to Davenport’s, but unlike Davenport, Muti hasn’t even had the chance to show whether he can be any good or not in the league. He was awful as a pass blocker and OK as a run blocker, but of course the sample size is really small. Davenport has at least showed he can be really good when he’s healthy. That’s the biggest difference between the two. One is still all projection.
I do think Glasgow will be much better at RG than at LG. I said last year I was worried about that switch since his worst games were at LG in 2023 as well.
Yeah, both would surprise me but who knows? The draft has a way of doing that. But knowing what we know about the way FOs thing, do you think a guy who’s 6’5, 311 with 35 inch arms, also a freak athlete with a wrestling background will last into the 5th? That might be the most surprising thing of all if it happens, unless of course his injury is worse than everyone’s letting on and they got wind of it. Everything I read makes it seem pretty minor though.
More or less agree although I’m not familiar with the Gophers lineman.
In general I hope to leave drafts with five guys that I believe can be starters. Then with attrition you can reasonably end up with 3, which for most seems to be the important threshold to meet or succeed for sustained successful roster building/maintenance.
I’m a sucker for late-round OL with good juice, top notch smarts, and preferably a little a-hole to them. Late-round iOL already hits at a higher rate than most other positions, and those are the types that hit the most. Huber is kinda like that too. So are Luke Newman, Branson Taylor, Easton Kilty, Brian Stevens, Jacob Bayer, and a few others. I think long-term there will be multiple starters out of that group.
Now they have to have enough anchor and that’s where it can get a little tricky, but I feel pretty good about those listed. I’m lower on Monheim, Conner, West, Kendall and some others because I think they fall below that threshold.
Cooper not an elite athlete but he’s a plus one, and he’s one of the smartest guys in the class. There were some concerns about his length, but he measured in a 32.5 at the Shrine Bowl (also 6’5, 305), so good enough. He’s one of a number of day 3 guys I think could thrive at C.
Nelson, right? A lot of people like him but I think a lot of that’s leftover from his early success. His tape just never improved. Now they had a pretty big change to their scheme when Fickell took over, so there could be some late value, but I’m always wary of guys who just stay the same throughout their college careers.
Certainly possible. I came into the year pretty high on him but his technique just never got any better. That’s alarming for a guy who’s started so many games (and out of character for a Wisconsin OL). He’s smart and he’s good athlete though, I think pure zone teams will like him quite a bit. Just don’t know how much we will.
If he meaning Muti just turns out to be good backup fine we start Mahogany thats a rookie starting an he looks like keeper start him at LOG GG at rog an lets say a rd 2 or 3 OG working at ROG an ready to take over for GG if he is slipping bad.
Thats my point one rookie to start season an draft pickl ready by mid season if needed an still have Ok backups. I would look to add couple UDFA OL man to PS an develop late picks or UDFA . We should know this season also where Manu will play. We need to rework are OL but not all at once we have a OG from last season to start this season an we should look for one more in draft this season to be ready mid season . We have that Center they kept on PS all last season an paid him big money to sign as UDFA I just don’t see need to draft 2 OLman now if one slips they have higher o there board ok but to head looking for two I hope not. I would rather double down on edge an S even a WR late add 2 .I think we have enough depth now for OL an just add one rd 1 2 3 where ever they find value.
I get it, I just don’t think Muti factors into the equation at all. Let’s hope he makes the team first and even then, if he plays well enough to displace Glasgow, we can’t count on him staying healthy enough to be the future at that spot. We can really never count on him as more than depth because he could disappear at any time. As long as we have someone like GG behind him we could survive that, but not if we moved on.
I do really like Eguakun (the UDFA C), but like Muti we’d be foolish to rely on him. Yes we have some interesting depth, but until they’ve actually shown they can be more than that - like Mahogany - that’s what they’ll remain. And wisely so.
Yeah could be, depth spot. Though Kayode’s advantage is he can step in at LG whereas I’m pretty sure Muti is RG only. So maybe Muti, Sorsdal duking it out?
He may have, but in the pros I think he’s RG all the way. Generally that’s true of the good run blockers who struggle to pass block, which is what he’s shown so far. But even back in college the rare times he played the lateral juice was iffy, and it’s only gonna be worse now. I could be wrong of course, but that was Glasgow’s issues at LG - he just didn’t have the feet for it - and I really don’t want to see a repeat. Same with Sorsdal the one game he substituted there.