Quote:I tried very hard during draft season to get people to understand how bad of an athlete Fowler is. Unfortunately people still didn't get it. Fowler is an undersized DE with above average dashes (not very useful for DE) and poor position specific drills (3 cone, broad, and veritcal jumps), or he is a very big OLB with horrible position specific drills. In reality, a LEO is probably best considered a hybrid if you are trying to compare positional numbers so Fowler is an average sized wide 9 pass rusher with very poor position specific drills. Using his SPARQ score, which doesn't take position into account, Dante is merely a 30th percentile athlete period while Khalil Mack was 90th percentile.


Coincidentally there was some interesting reading this summer about how high SPARQ athletes have been healthier as far as soft tissue and non contact injuries than non high SPARQ athletes in their careers. Digging deeper than that is for a different day and probably some more conclusive evidence before it's really worth blaming Fowler's lack of athleticism on his ACL tear (but there's a solid chance it was a factor).