(04-17-2022, 03:28 PM)Newton Wrote: This is a really tough year to have to pick number 1. I still feel like Hutch would be a great culture fit and leader for the D long-term. Walker’s lack of sacks concerns me. While it’s true he had a great team around him, shouldn’t that have made it easier, since the o-line of opposing teams had to account for so many other top tier players? However, if Sauce is the clear best player, I’m okay going a different direction. I don’t know enough about his game to say, but I would rather go BAP than overdraft a specific position of value.

I watched some general highlights of Sauce and then the entirety of his snaps in the Notre Dame game.  I would say the pick he had in that game was more error on the part of the QB than effort by Sauce, but that said, he was in position to make the play and made it.  Also, they only really threw at his guy twice in the game.  First time he ran into a pick on a crosser and the receiver caught the ball and was immediately drilled by another defender.  He wasn't able to contest the pass himself because of the pick.  The second time, his guy was running a post and Sauce was with him the whole way and defended it well.  Not sure if he got a hand on the ball or not, but dude was on his guy like a glove.  So Notre Dame basically threw away from Sauce the entire game with the exception of 3 passes.  3 out of 46 pass attempts. That's respect.

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