Wyatt Davis

Hard to say 100%, but I don't think it looks good. 

I must say one of the more confusing players in recent memory.

1.  Has serious college pedigree.
2. Yet, allegedly many scouts didn't have a draft grade on him.
3. Plays a position of extreme weakness and doesn't sniff the field last year.  Thought he was in the doghouse for arriving overweight.
4. This offseason spent a month in Dallas working with offensive line guru Duke Manyweather, who runs his own offensive line academy.  
5. Still appears to be 4th string at best. 

Doubt he makes the team. Kind of puzzling but for whatever reason he just doesn't seem to be good enough. 

He did have the bum knee as a sr...Maybe that never came around?

Given his resume,  something is off in this story.

I thought he was gonna be a Game 1 starter for the next 10 years.

That he's been a complete whiff doesn't make sense to me

@"Mattyman" said:  

Given his resume,  something is off in this story.

I thought he was gonna be a Game 1 starter for the next 10 years.

That he's been a complete whiff doesn't make sense to me

@"StickyBun" said:

@"Mattyman" said:  

Given his resume,  something is off in this story.

I thought he was gonna be a Game 1 starter for the next 10 years.

That he's been a complete whiff doesn't make sense to me

What's becoming evident now is that if Minnesota wouldn't have taken him when they did, he would have slid farther.....maybe much farther. 

@"StickyBun" said:

@"Mattyman" said:  

Given his resume,  something is off in this story.

I thought he was gonna be a Game 1 starter for the next 10 years.

That he's been a complete whiff doesn't make sense to me

What's becoming evident now is that if Minnesota wouldn't have taken him when they did, he would have slid farther.....maybe much farther. 

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"Mattyman" said:  

Given his resume,  something is off in this story.

I thought he was gonna be a Game 1 starter for the next 10 years.

That he's been a complete whiff doesn't make sense to me

What's becoming evident now is that if Minnesota wouldn't have taken him when they did, he would have slid farther.....maybe much farther. 

Impossible to say. Consensus had him going earlier than the Vikings took him. I've seen a handful of players over the years who were consensus early to mid rounders fall out of the draft, but that's typically due to late-revealed injury or character. 

If there are legitimate talent concerns, they are almost always brought to the surface by the more connected media scouts like McGinn, Jeremiah, Brandt, etc. Such was not the case with Davis. The overriding opinion on him was that he was good in 2019, less good in 2020, perhaps overrated by the media, but still a 2-time All-American from a Power Five school. It's not batshit crazy to draft that in the middle rounds.

@"StickyBun" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"Mattyman" said:  

Given his resume,  something is off in this story.

I thought he was gonna be a Game 1 starter for the next 10 years.

That he's been a complete whiff doesn't make sense to me

What's becoming evident now is that if Minnesota wouldn't have taken him when they did, he would have slid farther.....maybe much farther. 

Impossible to say. Consensus had him going earlier than the Vikings took him. I've seen a handful of players over the years who were consensus early to mid rounders fall out of the draft, but that's typically due to late-revealed injury or character. 

If there are legitimate talent concerns, they are almost always brought to the surface by the more connected media scouts like McGinn, Jeremiah, Brandt, etc. Such was not the case with Davis. The overriding opinion on him was that he was good in 2019, less good in 2020, perhaps overrated by the media, but still a 2-time All-American from a Power Five school. It's not batshit crazy to draft that in the middle rounds.

There is rarely much 'consensus' in the NFL Draft. I know you think Davis is going to pan out, you've been defending him since last year but its not looking good. 

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"Mattyman" said:  

Given his resume,  something is off in this story.

I thought he was gonna be a Game 1 starter for the next 10 years.

That he's been a complete whiff doesn't make sense to me

What's becoming evident now is that if Minnesota wouldn't have taken him when they did, he would have slid farther.....maybe much farther. 

whats funny is at the time,   Rick was credited for getting a steal on him,  but now its looking like Rick was a dip shit.

@"jargomcfargo" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"Mattyman" said:  

Given his resume,  something is off in this story.

I thought he was gonna be a Game 1 starter for the next 10 years.

That he's been a complete whiff doesn't make sense to me

What's becoming evident now is that if Minnesota wouldn't have taken him when they did, he would have slid farther.....maybe much farther. 

whats funny is at the time,   Rick was credited for getting a steal on him,  but now its looking like Rick was a dip shit.

If Spielman recommended an offensive lineman, or QB for that matter, I would just cross the guy off the list. There is a long list of schmoes that Spielman drafted that didn't work out. He seemed to seemed to like drafting players who were falling down the board for one reason or another, and calling them a great value or steal. He also seemed willing to take risks on previously injured players, but sometimes that worked out for him.

I'm not sure the team didn't suffer from the type of linemen they were looking for...zone blocking schemes and linemen that could get to the next level.  This made sense in a run first offense but we ended up with a lot of undersized linemen that couldn't hold the point of attack in pass protection.  Lots of film of these guys pre draft out in space blocking but less so in pass protection against the caliber of bull rushers in the NFL.  Frankly, I think we got lucky with O'Neil...who was a converted TE that came to the Vikings and was "good at the next level in run protection".  Turns out he's pretty good at the point of attack as well.

@"badgervike" said: I'm not sure the team didn't suffer from the type of linemen they were looking for...zone blocking schemes and linemen that could get to the next level.  This made sense in a run first offense but we ended up with a lot of undersized linemen that couldn't hold the point of attack in pass protection.  Lots of film of these guys pre draft out in space blocking but less so in pass protection against the caliber of bull rushers in the NFL.  Frankly, I think we got lucky with O'Neil...who was a converted TE that came to the Vikings and was "good at the next level in run protection".  Turns out he's pretty good at the point of attack as well.