(05-03-2022, 10:12 AM)Upper Wrote: I think people have both overstated how high Hutch's floor is and how low Walker's floor is.

Hutch is pretty unprecedented. There is basically no one as tall as he is with such short arms. He also wins off inside counter moves and bull rushes, it's pretty rare for an EDGE to win like that when they aren't scary around the corner. I think there's a decent chance Hutch is a guy who loses both the punch battle and the leverage battle, and whose counter moves don't work because the OT isn't scared of being beaten outside.

Walker with his freak athleticism, size, length, and versatility plus what he has shown on the field is pretty much guaranteed to be solid IMO. He may not ever become the pass rusher you would have hoped for at #1, but I think there's very little chance that he is flat out bad. There is that chance, even if it's small, that Hutch winds up being bad.

The only sure-fire superstar in this draft was Sauce Gardner.

That in itself warranted his selection. It's not a guess - it's a guarantee. 6'3", long arms. 4.41 40 speed and so fast in the first 10 yards.... and the production and the lock-down ability PROVEN in college... even against the best of the best - he shut them down. He is a bigger, stronger, faster version of Jalen Ramsey... with the swagger to match. That's probably why they didn't get him. Scared of his ego.

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