Pick 168 of the 2019 NFL Draft: D'Andre Walker, Edge, Georgia

Looking at who was drafted after him, who else would you take?

Sutton Smith is the only even semi-reasonable argument, if you like undersized MAC players.

 

Then surely by your logic, there wasn’t an EDGE drafted between the 3rd and 5th rounds, right?

Because if he was passed over purely based on need and fit, there shouldn’t have been another Edge/OLB taken anywhere near or before him after pick 51, right?

Cmon man, quit being a Homer. Dude sunk like the Titanic, so we scooped him up. Stop calling him a steal, we stopped his free fall and that’s the bottom line.

 

I think he was a good pick as a very late 5th rounder.

...but 5th round was probably about right. He started 1 season, was decent but not great on a stacked team, then couldn't do any of the pre-draft stuff because of a surgery.

We might have lucked into a late bloomer and he has some potential/upside, but if someone took him in the 2nd, that is probably getting words in all these worst pick articles.

 

Of the 19 EDGEs that were drafted, Walker was #13.

 

I wasn't aware I was a GEORGIA fan, Fabio......

 

Me either, but you’re sucking on this pick pretty good.

BrokenArrow got some HeadGame

 

That's such a dumb equivalency.

Why didn't any of those teams that needed a second round edge rusher grab Deandre Walker, who was supposedly a second round edge rusher? What about the teams that needed a third round edge rusher? A fourth round edge rusher?

That's a lot of guys who weren't at one time considered second round edge rushers going ahead of Walker.

I'm not saying it was a bad pick. I just don't get the adulation.

 

Could be worse.... I could be abc, and stuck in a room with Marcus Mariota, and 80s jazz music...

 

I didn't hear Vrabel say anything bad about him though saying he's good in meetings isn't a ringing endorsement either. Sounds like he's gonna be a bit of a project...but that's fine. We need him on special teams while he learns our OLB stuff and we'll see what we have. His first goal is to make the roster and be a special teams ace!

Go from there!

 

Order of operations:

Make the roster
Make a special teams unit
Perform well on special teams unit
Become special teams ace
Learn the duties and responsibilities of OLB
Crack the 5man OLB rotation
Make plays