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Originally Posted by el borracho
Well, I don't know enough about college players to pound the table for anybody, lol. But I have run the first two rounds 20 or 30 times on the site in the OP and usually there isn't any 1st round OL left. I think it was only one occasion where Vera-Tucker was still available. Most of the 1st round receivers are gone, as well, although Kadarius is sometimes available.
Phillips is often there and Rousseau has been there 2 or 3 times. Barmore is usually available and Nixon is always there. Pretty much whoever I don't take out of that bunch is drafted immediately after by Tampa.
Oddly, your guy Perkins is not highly regarded on this particular site. He is the 118th rated player and is always available to us with our 3rd round pick. Heh. We should be so lucky, huh?
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I've never been one to like their player rankings much. They aren't overly accurate. They put out halfway decent player evals though, which makes the former quite odd. The best site used to be NFLDraftScout but they pretty well are done and just contribute to CBS, but CBS has done an awful job of having anything updated this year.
The Huddle Report is pretty consistent as far as accuracy goes and they don't seem to be much in love with Perkins yet either, although he has some traction with some national media types, much like Tryon. There's a lot of time yet and these boards will change immensely in the coming weeks.
There are some guys getting some pretty hard knocks that are potential 1st round talents. Joe Tryon, Walker Little, and Levi Onwuzurike are the 3 that immediately pop into my head due to no play in 2020. Perkins is getting slammed for that suspension.
When it comes to Tryon and Perkins specifically, I don't know how anyone can say with a straight face that they are worse players than guys like Jayson Oweh, Joseph Ossai, Carlos Basham, Patrick Jones, Quincy Roche, and Rashad Weaver. Their production and traits trump all of them, yet they are consistently ranked below those guys outside of guys like Jeremiah who get it. Oweh is the only one that has a case on the traits but lacks significantly on production. And speaking of Oweh, I'd shit if he ran a 4.33 as has been rumored. I'd expect a 4.53.
As for Christian Barmore, I don't see how he isn't a 1st round pick. 6'5" 310 and just put up 37 tackles, 9.5 for a loss, and 8 sacks in the SEC. He put up 10 tackles and 2 sacks against Notre Dame and Ohio State's offensive lines in the playoffs, probably the best combine units he faced all year. And he did it all, primarily, from the nose. The guy is a ****ing load. Not many guys bulldoze Trey Hill (Georgia) and he did. He's a better player in my opinion than Javon Kinlaw who went 14th overall last year. If he's there at 31, there are only a few players I'd take over him and they'd also have to fall. The thought of him next to Chris Jones... man... may as well line up two freight trains next to each other. The Chiefs need to generate more pressure from the front 4, that doesn't mean it has to be off the edge. Jones and Barmore would create major issues for teams.
Nixon is quite the beast himself. Disruptive DTs are premium players in the NFL. This is a kid that was a JUCO transfer, so maybe thats' why people aren't all over him? He actually turned down Alabama to play at Iowa. A team needing a 3-tech or 5-tech that can push the pocket will definitely consider him early. He doesn't have that raw anchor strength that Barmore has to play the 1, but he's a player.
I see Onwuzurike as a bit better anchor player than Nixon but not as disruptive, so it could be need-based determining where each goes. Onwuzurike probably fits a potential future need at 1t for the Chiefs better than Nixon does.