Sewell is a T, threfore never going to Get OROY, or any other player of the year type awards. Not going to happen for a tackle. Sewell has literal GOAT potential for a T. He has no ceiling. Sewell IS a Suh/Donald-type of player (as it pertains to offense).
Sewell is a GD monster, was the right pick at that spot, was nowhere near a whiff, and nobody owes anyone anything other than a “your welcome” for picking him.
The idea of someone owing any sort of make-up picks or apologies is absurd.
Sewell will have at least as good a career as Parsons, and barring a weird injury, he’ll outlast Parsons, because of his position, and because of his age.
Sewell still has baby fat on him → He was a teenager last month (exaggerating, but not by much). Sewell didn’t play last year, and went from being a 19 year old to playing against the best players in the world…with a year off. Sewell is going to be absolutely hurting people’s feelings for 10-15 years.
Sewell has CRAZY strength, and he’s still shaped like a little kid. Wait until he gets “dude muscles”. Parsons is much closer to his ceiling than Sewell is. Both are freak humans, but Sewell has massive, massive upside that is not even tapped into yet.
This is not meant to slam Parsons in any way, but more to point out how grossly you have undervalued Sewell.
Good for Parsons, good for Dallas
Beyond that, it doesn’t mean much
They’re both one year into their careers
I feel very comfortable with the Sewell pick
I think he’s surpassed expectations for his first year
I’m thrilled to have the guy
He’s likely to end up a perennial PB player and likely will be an All Pro multiple times
And likely have a 10 year+ career
Sewell was a home run pick — end of story
Parsons success in no way diminishes the Sewell pick (nor the Chase pick, probably not the Surtain pick)
Now, the teams that selected dud QBs before Parsons … different story
Regardless, they both have long careers ahead of them
Actually, looks like 2021 has the potential to be a historically strong draft class.
As far as the back slapping… broken clock stuff … professional NFL talent evaluators hit on less than …50% of their picks??
We just revisited this. I started a thread titled “I didn’t want Parsons” where we went over some of the arguments that turned out to be less of a concern than they appeared to be.
There’s also a picture floating around here where a large percentage of Denmates voted that they would pick him at 7, though that poll didn’t have Sewell because he was assumed to be gone by our pick.
Sewell was 100% the right pick. Hndsigh is always 20/20, but in no way do I pass up Sewell to draft Parsons. One thing you also need to consider is Parsons behaviorial issues in college. Those things could easilly pop up, especially in Dallas, in the near future.
Isn’t this the same Micah Parsons that had maturity question marks?..something about tweets and a fight.
I have to admit that he was #1 on my list until all these issues kind-of came to the surface…and then I started to get cold feet, thinking we didn’t need to draft another bust…but was ok taking him if our GM did his due diligence and felt good about taking him.
Parsons is a good player, but sorry those who supported the Sewell pick then (and now) were not quote “wrong.” In the past six games Sewell has the second highest grade of ANY OT in the NFL behind only perennial All Pro Trent Williams. #2OT in the NFL > Best Off Ball LB in the Universe if that is what you want to crown him as. Sewell isn’t a “nice” tackle. He’s playing like a future HOFer. He does things other lineman simply cannot do at all, and he’s doing it while he’s only been able to buy a beer for 3 months! Parson’s was your guy. That’s cool and all. You weren’t wrong that he’s a great player and dominating as a rookie. As Sewell did against Nick Bosa in his very first football game at a position he wasn’t used to playing and after a year out of football. He wasn’t a consolation prize by a GM who made a bad pick. Let’s give it 5 minutes before any victory laps shall we. Sam Bradford was OROY. So what?
Those were certainly out there and guess what, the shoulder up eval in the top 10 is freaking critical. It seems like by the draft, a lot of those questions were answered pretty thoroughly. For me it was more about positional value. He wasn’t going to be an EDGE player, so that being the case I thought the potential HOF OT was the right pick. Nothing has changed my view of that even though Parsons is having a great year. Both can live in the same place. Sewell supporters most certainly haven’t been “proven wrong.”
I would have taken Parson over every player in the draft outside of the three I mentioned and Trevor Lawrence. I would consider that to be very high on a player who ended up being drafted 11th?
If the Dolphins took Sewell instead of Waddle Parsons was my pick. Just like everyone else I had Lawrence pegged as a franchise QB. I loved Trey Lance and his upside. I thought Jamar Chase was a future all-pro at WR. I thought Pewell was the safest bet in the draft to be a future HOFer. I thought Parson was a stud all around LB’er. Did not think he would have this big an impact as a pass rusher though.
Here is the list of draft picks with their last name starting with “S” since 1989 for absolutely no reason.
2021 Penei Sewell, Amon-ra St. Brown
2020 Deandre Swift and Logan Stenberg
2014 Travis Swanson
2013 Darius Slay
2010 Ndamukong Suh and Amari Speivey
2009 Matt Stafford
2008 Kevin Smith
2007 Drew Stanton
2006 Ernie Sims
2005 Bill Swancutt
2004 Keith Smith
2002 Luke Staley
1995 David Sloan, Cory Schlesinger
1994 Tony Semple
1992 Tracy Scroggins
1991 Kevin Scott
1990 Marc Spindler
1989 Barry Sanders
How many teams win games because of a HOFer right tackle, and how much has Sewells play actually help us win games ?
Then look at Parsons and his LT type presents, him terrorizing QBs. Witch player is making the bigger impact to help there team win.
I mean the whole HOF RT sounds really nice, but it’s not going to impact your team in the win collum, especially if the guy he is protecting isn’t very good.
