Grading the Ja'Wuan James Pick Now
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miamiron
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Actually Omar Kelly has been preaching for a while that Wake doesn't practice at the level he plays at during games
and why would Wake be going up against guards? You do know James isn't a guard?
I'll reserve judgement regarding James after the first 2 games when he'll be tested
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The question is....Is he a Knee Bender?
enigmatics
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Grade the situation before they've even played in any regular season games?
hoops
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Grade the pick before he's even played in any regular season games?
It was more than that...it was before we even got to see any pro tape of him...that said I'm a believer from what I have seen...the run game work should get more consistent in time
I think that question should be to her.
enigmatics
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Nothing matters to me personally until I've seen the guys in question get reps in the regular season when the games matter and the intensity is at full tilt. There are just too many extraneous variables going on during training camp and preseason to get a legitimate read.
hoops
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True...and they face quality nfl edge rushers...of which the schedules chalk full of them
dlockz
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True people were pretty comfortable with our oline at this point last year.
hoops
Tua time!
The difference this year is the team actually has scheme fits...they aren't asking guys to do things they can't...like overcome angles etc with guys who weren't good lateral athletes etc...
the personnel fit the scheme much better this year...
Well, considering the OP's key word is "NOW" I interpret that to mean "at this point in time." It reflects what we so far know about James' play, the feedback gotten from unaffiliated and objective sources plus the struggles of possible alternative RTs. Of course things could, and well might change - for the better or worse, but using those criteria, in the vacuum of "here and now, " I'd characterize this Hickey pick as an inspired success.
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Yes, like Ted Ginn Jr., the only explosive player drafted in the history of the NFL draft apparently.
If we are only going to consider WRs as "explosive" players taken in the 1st, here are just a few other than Ginn:
2013
Tavon Austin
DeAndre Hopkins ("explosive," or just good? We should define the parameters, I suppose)
Cordarrelle Patterson
2012
Michael Floyd
Kendall Wright
2011
AJ Green
Julio Jones
2010
Demaryius Thomas
Dez Bryant (good thing we passed on that guy because of his mom and, you know, Ted Ginn Jr.!)
Of course, by the Ted Ginn, Jr. logic, we really shouldn't of drafted James because of Billy Milner. In fact, maybe we should trade our 1st pick, because we've whiffed on almost every position at one point or another in our history.