The staff likes Skip. I woudn’t just write him off.
Hold a sec. There is only room for 1 special teamer cult in this town. This guy looking for trouble?
Sure. So they both got guarantees I believe at roughly the same amount (though I do believe the UCLA kid was more), clearly they were both highly wanted by our brass.
From there it’s just sheer evaluation, and Clemens’s profile is one that generally doesn’t make it in the league (small, really short-armed). He’d be an outlier if he hit. Now he’s excellent at the second-level, one of the better movers in the class. But to me there’s a threshold an iOL needs to meet in regard to anchor and I don’t think he does. He may stick around to have an Evan Brown-style career, but that’s not much of a ceiling.
Hudson is bigger (and has a frame to add even more weight) and while not quite as athletic as Clemens, a very good athlete himself (you can see his RAS somewhere on here earlier). I wouldn’t call him an unmovable force or anything, but he’s above the threshold re: anchor. That’s the main reason I prefer Hudson. I think he’s got a higher ceiling and a higher floor.
They both have football character and intangibles coming out their ears.
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It looks like they picked up two centers they liked of opposing styles. You already compared Duke to Evan Brown. So he’s that super rangy spark plug that will always be a liability against power.
I know you say that Hudson is a better athlete than he tested but IMO his upside is best unleashed by going to town with the strength guys and his nutritionist and becoming a powerful technician. In that world he’s probably a meh mover but a dude at the point of attack.
Gun to my head we hope to sneak both onto the PS and let time settle it.
Good reviews from fans and alums are dime of dozen but a lot of BYU fans do feel like Rex was a good, albeit not overly physically imposing blocker.
I don’t think 4TEs is that unlikely and that profile vs. Zylstra as that Joker type will be interesting.
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Hudson’s RAS was peculiar. Like, he had a great broad and a pretty decent vert (73%), and his shuttle and 3-cone were great too (88th and 91st percentile respectively), but somehow his ten-yard split was a 1.85? (41st%). Then he came back to have a 81st percentile 20 yard split? It just doesn’t add up. Especially when you include the tape, he fires out of his stance very quickly, and has very little trouble getting to the second level.
I almost wonder if he slipped. Or if the timer was asleep at the start.
I definitely think Hudson has the versatility to hold up at guard as well if necessary, whereas Clemens is almost certainly center only.
Rex doesn’t need to be a physically imposing blocker, he just needs to get in the way as Gibbs darts by. If he can do that he could definitely stick.
What I’m surprised by is that every single pick I fully expect to make the roster. And I wasn’t expecting that due to our roster’s strength. But two things happened:
1:). wetraded out of the 7th
2:) we added less guys
Which was shrewd behavior. That’s why I think those sevenths next year. At least one. Kicker is probably a consideration.
Just seems like shrewd planning on their part. Come August we have some options.
I’d be shocked if any didn’t make the roster. This year’s 6th rounders aren’t like normal 6th rounders, and as you say, we didn’t have anything after.
Injury attrition batters every roster so in that respect our holes will open up in unpredictable places, but we can only do the best with what we’ve got. But if say, a WR goes down, I could see Isaiah Williams taking a spot on the roster from someone. I doubt it would be any of these draftees, but maybe? They can be protected on the practice squad in some fashion, right? For a little while?
I do like having the 7ths to fire at potential cuts. Speaking of which, I see a lot of Commanders fans think Dyami will be cut outright. That would be something.
They can be.
That’s what Rick Spielman did so well. Just take out the draft mag and pick chalk on day three and you will prosper. The whole f’cking league goes into heat checks on day 3. They load up with if I’m right here this one lives on.
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They brought that up on the Around the NFL podcast I heard today. Dan was (jokingly) giving the Eagles shit for paying attention to the mock consensus so they can get good draft grades, then Gregg pointed out that actually just going with the consensus has proven to be a better approach over the years, and decided more teams should pay attention. I wonder how many do?
The ten yard splits from pro days are all over the place. If they weren’t done electronically at the combine I would disregard them.
I watched Hudson twice this year and he looked pretty good. In fact the one game he had not practiced in 2 weeks because of an injury. There was no doubt he was in charge of calling protections, pointing out the mike etc. I was wondering what the injury was because it did not seem to effect his play. I was thinking if this dude is this good injured how good can he be when healthy?
He basically played the whole year without practicing during the week because of injury. I don’t know what it was either, but clearly something he could play through.
He was born to be a Lions Center
I hope it’s not his toe. Maybe it is something that needs corrected and we can hide him for a year.
Nah, I’m pretty sure it’s a knee thing. And I said all year, that was an exaggeration… it was more like 1/2-2/3 of the year.
Granted I have a problem with horizontal lines, but if there is one thing I know about I Rex it’s that its arms are freakishly short.
Looks like we signed 3 Safeties… all of them are 5’10 & 199lbs
Seirously
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Sweet… any of them any good?
I haven’t read this thread yet…
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Nah they all suck, that’s why they weren’t drafted
Haha I’m sure u know who will be here to yell at you soon 
Not all are that light, DaRon Gilbert, S, Northern Illinois Gilbert is a Detroit native (Brother Rice HS)
He played some LB but mostly Safety 6’ 1", 222 lbs 40-yard dash: 4.67 seconds ; 10-yard split: 1.56 seconds; 20-yard split: 2.62 seconds; Shuttle: 4.28 his pro day March 16 They get him on a diet an work him more he will get little faster an drop 8 or 10 pounds. One season on PS you would see difference.
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