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Originally Posted by Dam8610
You should be pissed off about Paye. He sucks. He's straight up athletic traits with no idea how to play DE, and he's not even the best player in this draft in that category. Oweh ran a 4.37 with a 1.59 10 split. His 3 cone time is 6.9 and his vert and broad are far superior to Paye. He didn't put up as many reps of 225. Neither Paye nor Oweh currently have any idea how pass rushing works. Oweh's way more likely to get it because he's longer, faster, and more explosive. It doesn't matter where a player is drafted, or how many were drafted at his position in front of him. To your point on QBs, Joe Montana wasn't even a first rounder and was the 4th QB taken in his class, he did pretty okay. You know who else was the 5th QB taken in their class? Dan Marino, he turned out pretty okay, too.
Ojulari has a rush plan on any given play and absolutely demolished the 17th pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, go watch the game if you'd like. I don't care that his RAS is lower mostly because of his size and bench scores. I didn't, and still haven't, seen Paye's 3 cone time, because I can't find it anywhere, but I highly doubt it was better than Oweh's 6.9.
I don't understand the reluctance of teams to take OTs in this draft, but I am certain it is not a talent gap. This is the best OT class by far in some time.
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You're making my point Dam. There are a lot more quality OT's than there were/are edge rush. So if you don't take the edge when they are available then you're probably not getting one. BUT there will be plenty of OT's available because the class is deep.
And if you read what I posted earlier. Word was that the only player Ballard was interested in in round 1 was Paye. If he wasn't there they were trading back. Then the report came out that Paye was the #1 player on the Colts board.
This is really not that difficult.