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12 Fifth Year Options Declined - JustInTime - 05-02-2025
Who Where Your Guys
Guys I wanted:
Hamilton
McDuffie
Strange (in the third like a normal person)
Chenal
Bellinger
Pitre
Brisker
Muma
Kolar
Ferguson
Mays
Lake
Ojabo
Pierce
Hall (both)
Karlaftis
Sauce (October of 21 I started banging the table)
McDuffie (when the world caught on to Sauce)
Green
Penning
Gordon
Mafe
Calcaterra
Dom Robinson
Guys I wanted no part of
Stingley (whoops)
Jordan Davis (still not getting a ton of snaps)
Linderbaum ( GB was sufficient)
Faalele
RE: 12 Fifth Year Options Declined - MaroonBells - 05-02-2025
My guy was Trent McDuffie. We had a tussle on the board about his arm length. 13 of 32 1st rounders did not get 2nd contracts. 40% busts. I think that's about par for the course for the 1st round. 5 of the 9 OLs taken were busts.
RE: 12 Fifth Year Options Declined - Canthony - 05-02-2025
I liked McDuffie but I didn't love him. Didn't have the angst about his arms like many did. I was a huge Stingley guy, however.
RE: 12 Fifth Year Options Declined - MAD GAINZ - 05-02-2025
Based on who I thought would be available, I really wanted Kyle Hamilton. Felt like this was another opportunity for us to pick a Notre Dame S with huge potential to replace the Notre Dame S that was nearing the end of a HOF career.
Kwesi really fucked that up. If we were gonna trade back for a S, we should have just taken the best one at our original pick.
RE: 12 Fifth Year Options Declined - purplefaithful - 05-02-2025
(05-02-2025, 08:34 AM)MAD GAINZ Wrote: Based on who I thought would be available, I really wanted Kyle Hamilton. Felt like this was another opportunity for us to pick a Notre Dame S with huge potential to replace the Notre Dame S that was nearing the end of a HOF career.
Kwesi really fucked that up. If we were gonna trade back for a S, we should have just taken the best one at our original pick.
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RE: 12 Fifth Year Options Declined - JustInTime - 05-02-2025
(05-02-2025, 08:34 AM)MAD GAINZ Wrote: Based on who I thought would be available, I really wanted Kyle Hamilton. Felt like this was another opportunity for us to pick a Notre Dame S with huge potential to replace the Notre Dame S that was nearing the end of a HOF career.
Kwesi really fucked that up. If we were gonna trade back for a S, we should have just taken the best one at our original pick.
If there was ever a more obvious choice than this I haven’t seen it.
RE: 12 Fifth Year Options Declined - JustInTime - 05-02-2025
(05-02-2025, 08:25 AM)MaroonBells Wrote: My guy was Trent McDuffie. We had a tussle on the board about his arm length. 13 of 32 1st rounders did not get 2nd contracts. 40% busts. I think that's about par for the course for the 1st round. 5 of the 9 OLs taken were busts.
Now that you mention arm length, I wonder if I was out on McDuffie? I know I liked his running mate too.
I might need to stop relying on memory.
RE: 12 Fifth Year Options Declined - MaroonBells - 05-02-2025
(05-02-2025, 11:53 AM)JustInTime Wrote: Now that you mention arm length, I wonder if I was out on McDuffie? I know I liked his running mate too.
I might need to stop relying on memory.
You may have mentioned it.
But there were a couple on the board who didn't like him for that reason. And not his specific arm length, more that he fell below the specific threshold of 30 inches by 1/4 inch. Ridiculous if you ask me. I think arm length is a big factor for linemen, but it's hard to see how 1/4 makes much difference in a DB—especially when the guy you're talking about has a 41.5 vertical. Two All Pro selections later, I think we can throw that metric into the dumpster.
RE: 12 Fifth Year Options Declined - RS_Express - 05-02-2025
Was all over Hamilton. Also high on McDuffie and would have been fine with Karlaftis.
RE: 12 Fifth Year Options Declined - supafreak84 - 05-02-2025
That was always my contention that if they wanted a safety so bad, you literally had the best prospect in years inexplicably land right in your lap and you trade down for a much lesser prospect in Lewis Cine. It's literally a miracle that that craptastic draft crop hasn't hindered our success under KOC.