(06-07-2020, 07:24 AM)uthill Wrote:

(06-06-2020, 11:07 PM)TheDogCatcher Wrote: I'm not a fan of drafting raw projects in the first round (see also Jones, Matt). The contract runs only so many years. If they're good, half the time they price themselves out of the second contract, so get 'em good from the get go. Having two wasted warm-up years is a waste.

Exactly. Taven is a bust, can't get around that. No matter how good he is this year, his first 2 years are 1st round bust material.

You have an unconventional definition of the term “bust.” 

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I saw a blurb recently on Taven a few weeks ago that highlighted an uptick in his number of pressures and overall performance in the last 5 games of the 2019 season. Nothing earth shattering- but significant.

I’m interested to see if he can take a step for us this year. Hard to guess at how much Wash mixes things up this year with all of the 3/4 talk surrounding the offseason — but Taven will probably see 50-60% of the 3 tech snaps. This is his opportunity to prove the “bust” choir members wrong. No matter how loosely they define the term. 

I think the project pick turns out to be a solid rotational DT with flashes of something better than that. 
Certainly not a bust, but probably not a very good pick either.

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