If Tua was not injury prone and coming off a career threatening injury, he would most likely be the top pick in the draft. While it has taken a Burrow longer to have success in college, he will be the first pick because he had a great season and he has not had the multiple injuries a Tua has had.Thats cause he’s not. San injury concerns, Tua would still be considered the better prospect by most, if not all.
I watched a clip of Cowherd and Reggie Bush talking about Tua and Burrow today and they were both spot on IMO. Tua came in as an 18 yo into a very tough situation and flourished right away. Burrow struggled until the stars aligned and is older than Lamar Jackson. People are just overly infatuated with the hot player right now.
The issue with Tua isn’t that he wasn’t a great player in college. The issue is his hip and whether a team wants to risk a high draft pick on a player who may or may not be able to play in the NFL because of his hip injury.
There has never been an NFL player who has been able to come back and play for more than a year after having sustained a serious hip injury like Tua suffered. Dennis Pitta tried to resume his career after a serious hip injury and he ended up having two additional hip injuries within two years and had to retire from the league.