He isn't even going to see the field until year 2, which is going to be a rehab/learning year. So realistically year 3 is when you get any return on him. Plus....achilles. Just a bit different than say an ACL, especially for a player with his skillset. Just too many risks to take someone like that in the 1st. [Reply]
Originally Posted by La0laEsMia:
I wouldn't take him in the 1st.
He isn't even going to see the field until year 2, which is going to be a rehab/learning year. So realistically year 3 is when you get any return on him. Plus....achilles. Just a bit different than say an ACL, especially for a player with his skillset. Just too many risks to take someone like that in the 1st.
I haven’t heard about them bribing him in for a visit, which you think would be required before assessing his rehab and understanding if concepts interviews. [Reply]
This is interesting to me. Ojabo was probably around 15 before the injury and now he drops to the third with todays medical technology? Any other case studies besides Dago odeybingo and cam ackers? Cam certainly got his explosiveness back. [Reply]
Jim Nagy, a long-time NFL scout and executive director of the Senior Bowl, wrote a day after the injury. “Most NFL teams we’ve spoken with weren’t expecting immediately production Ojabo’s rookie year. He’s very young football-wise, so teams are banking on Years 2-4.”
Nagy called Ojabo a “developmental” player with a “high ceiling.”
If that’s true and NFL teams still like what Ojabo brings, it will be a race to see which franchise exercises a pick first on the 6-foot-4, 250-pound athletic edge-rusher.
At the NFL Scouting Combine this year, Ojabo ran the 40-yard dash in 4.55 seconds and recorded a vertical jump of 35 inches, both extraordinary numbers for a player his size. Which makes Ojabo such an intriguing prospect. NFL teams love the speed, size and athleticism, and sometimes the combination is hard to pass up.
That would explain Mel Kiper’s decision to take Ojabo 30th in a new two-round mock draft with Todd McShay for ESPN.com, calling him “a pass-rusher with top-10 upside.”
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“The only reason Ojabo dropped this far is the torn Achilles he suffered in March,” Kiper wrote. “The Chiefs can afford to wait on him. He could make an impact down the stretch of the season.”
In fact, in his latest mock draft, Kiper projected Ojabo to the Detroit Lions at No. 34 — just two picks into the second round.
His colleague, McShay, thinks Ojabo could fall further — to the Philadelphia Eagles at No. 51 — but still well within the range of being an early-Day 2 pick. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BossChief:
Man…if you don’t take him at 29/30 and he’s still there after 40, I think you need to make calls about moving up from 50 or 62 to go get him.
If you're willing to trade up to get him at 40, there's no reason at all not to just take him at 30 and get the 5th year option.
If you think he's THAT good, then he's a 1st round pick. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
If you're willing to trade up to get him at 40, there's no reason at all not to just take him at 30 and get the 5th year option.
If you think he's THAT good, then he's a 1st round pick.
This. It would lessen the pain of that redshirt year as well. But you damn well better still draft two DEs in this draft even after drafting him. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
If you're willing to trade up to get him at 40, there's no reason at all not to just take him at 30 and get the 5th year option.
If you think he's THAT good, then he's a 1st round pick.
totally agreed. It’s been my view since he tore it.
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
This. It would lessen the pain of that redshirt year as well. But you damn well better still draft two DEs in this draft even after drafting him.
Imo we probably should take 3 anyway. That cupboard is empty after this year.
Herring and Danna.
Taking Ojabo just makes it more prevalent. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BossChief:
If we don’t come out of this draft with a solid and deep pass rush, 2 corners and 1 difference making WR (but realistically 2)…Veach failed.
I could see us taking a safety and corner in the first round and it being a home run. [Reply]
Did we have really good corner play? Or did our safety play cover a lot of their growing pains?
We play three safeties. Teams have to throw to keep up with us. You can rush them or have a great secondary or both. Why do we have to find corners late and not pass rushers late? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Kiimosabi:
Did we have really good corner play? Or did our safety play cover a lot of their growing pains?
We play three safeties. Teams have to throw to keep up with us. You can rush them or have a great secondary or both. Why do we have to find corners late and not pass rushers late?
Because finding pass rushers late is a lot harder. [Reply]