Shemar Stewart @ 17 ?

[Essex Johnson]

(03-27-2025, 10:10 AM)CJD Wrote: The most successful pass rushers in the NFL are typically players that showcased both good production and good athleticism in college. These are your Myles Garretts, Josh Hines-Allens, Aiden Hutchinsons etc.

Once you go a tier below that, you get players who had good production but bad athleticism in college and players who had bad production in college but good athleticism.

Stewart is in that third group.

From my perspective, we already tried that when we drafted Myles Murphy.

It was a disaster (so far).

So, if we can't have a prospect from the first group, I'd like to try our hand at the second group before trying the third group again.

The players that people always reference that fit Stewart's profile of elite athlete with horrible production are Rashan Gary and Danielle Hunter. A third example given is Travon Walker. He has had back to back 10 sack seasons, but I hear his advanced stats still leave a lot to be desired (a lot of clean up sacks, basically).

I personally think Hunter was drafted in the correct range for this particular profile. The 3rd round.

Taking a player with bad production in the first round just seems like bad business to me. Not every prospect will be Rashan Gary.

But I'm not a professional scout, and scouts always love players with Stewart's profile.

Stewart is rated at a higher level than Murphy, you can split hairs on all D ends, interesting some have compared him to a Garrett style, he is much more athletic than Murphy and also why projected top 20 pick even with a deep group... Im still in the trade back camp but unless somehow Booker drops to #17 (highly unlikely) and since safety area in draft is not good and we would be reaching i think at #17  if one of the top ends is out there with the unknown of Trey and lack of depth we have, end or hybrid Edge/Lb seems to be the best pick if we stay at 17.