Quote:Malik sounds like he'll be strictly playing 3t. Alualu is ok at best.


We likely won't be getting a LEO at 5 anyway. It's more likely in Rd 2 or 3. Jack or Ramsey is more likely.


Regardless, we need elite talent, if Dave thinks Buckner can be a cornerstone piece, you take him. Having a solid player at a position shouldn't stop that.

 

They've talked about Malik moving around. And if not 3T, then the other spot for him is 5T.

 

The only LEO candidate at 5 are  Bosa/Lawson, who also have the ability to move all over our scheme (bosa)

 

We do need elite talent. From my perspective though, its Bosa/Ramsey 1a/1b. Jack 2. Then gap for Buckner. Jack/Buckner would flip depending on Jack's knee. It's not about knocking Buckner. It's that...these guys are all similarly graded, and in my view higher than Buckner. Bosa, Ramsey, and Jack all have a spot on this defense immediately. Buckner does not.

 

So why take Buckner over those guys?

 

Now if somehow all the other guys are taken (or Jack's knee is really bad long term), then I'd settle for Buckner.

 

Buckner's weakness is the same weakness that Stroud and Henderson had coming in, and something many other tall DTs shared. I still don't know where he'd play. He's quick inside, which seems to be when he does his most damage. And while he's tall like the other players he's compared to (Campbell), he's not as big as those guys (Buckner looks tall/lean compared to those guys). I think he's strictly a single-gap penetrating DT for us, same as Marks.

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