Quote:If we draft Beastley (which I'd love), the best thing for him his first year would be to give him around 400ish snaps max in my opinion. Keep him fresh with a lot of rotation (they do that anyways on the DL) and don't expect him to be "the man" his first year. Make sure he's always on the field in obvious passing situations, but let Clemons continue to be the starter for this season (possibly his last year with the team anyways).


Beastley has to develop some stuff, but he has everything you cannot teach. Caldwell said that now they don't necessarily have to look at their top picks as drafting somebody who has to start right now. I think Beastley fits that perfectly. Let him mainly be just a pure pass rusher his first season.


I would not be upset at a LEO rotation of Clemons, Branch, Beastley and Chris Smith for next season. Smith is always the forgotten man and I'd like to see a lot more of him this season. He flashed a number of times last season, despite only having around 90 snaps on the year. Ryan Davis can LEO also, but he's more of the inside rusher.

Right. And though there is only 1 Leonard Williams, we have enough talent and girth along the line to still allow Beasley lanes to the QB.


I wonder if his run defense is gonna be better than expected/projected to be, for no matter what team he's with. I can remember a D-End from Clemson drafted about 3years ago in the 2nd rd, who had a knock on him that his run defense was suspect

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