I loved the pick when it happened. I felt it a major position of need despite the Griffin signing and Henderson pick the year prior and I liked the reports I read on the prospect.

Then I began to read misgivings about him from a few posters here whose analysis I respect and I figured it was possible I'd been duped.

As the season began and his clear struggles emerged with ball tracking, I was disheartened and eventually started thinking I'd been duped by optimistic draftniks and didn't watch enough cut-ups to form my own opinion definitively.

Now - well - it seems like both were true.
The good reports on him were accurate to an extent, and there were also good reasons to be concerned.
But if he continues to make progress as a player and coaches continue to utilize him in a zone-heavy scheme, he just might thrive.
Happy to see development from at least one player in this utter nightmare of a season.

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