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Of the guys that seem to be on the radar at #9, there aren't a lot of guys I'd be unhappy to have. My main thing is that I do not want to trade up; the only player that I think is semi-defensible to trade up for is Quinnen Williams, but even that would be tough for me. If we stay at #9, the one I'm most wary of would be Greedy (just because I don't think we really need him) and TJ Hockenson (I think he's a good prospect but much like RBs, taking a TE in the top 10 just isn't good value. 10-3 Kentucky seems like a weird inclusion on this list, especially considering they barely even pass the ball so to record sacks against them is impressive. Looking at Sweat's game log, it looks like roughly 56% of his sacks came against good offensive teams or teams like Kentucky where they were good overall teams that generally didn't throw the ball much. Compare that to someone like Nick Bosa who had fewer sacks and only around 47% of his sacks in 2017 would have fallen into one of those two categories. Per PFF, if we look at guys that are projected to go in the first couple rounds of the draft, Sweat ranks #2 or #3 in pass rush productivity depending on if you think Jaylon Ferguson is a 1st or 2nd round pick (which is probably in question after his testing numbers). Sweat is also #1 in run stop percentage even if we include the entire draftable database regardless of where they're expected to be drafted.

This isn't a shot at you, just always something I've found interesting. Literally every draft analyst seems to say the same thing; that they've never had 32 first round grades in a draft. I feel like by that logic, the definition of a 1st round grade is too strict. For the concept of a first round grade to work, there should be some draft in the history of scouting that had 32 first round grades. If that has never actually occurred, then I don't think that is really a first round grade; it's something with a higher threshold than that. Again, not a shot at you and I don't mean that every draft should have 32 of them; I just think we're mislabeling the grades if there's never been a draft with 32 first round grades (or 30 or however many teams there were when people first began doing this). Anywho, good work on the mock. I'd love the Oliver pick. I won't bother nitpicking until we get closer to the draft

Brings back memories from a few weeks ago when people were giving me crap for saying the over under would probably be 5.5-6.5.

Just on the off chance that this is a legitimate question, Oats is already gone. He is Alabama's coach now.

Wow that's so strange lol

Are you trying to imply that you think they're lying about who their relatives are or is this just really weirdly phrased?

I only know this because I've seen his comments on Rumblings...me and him were both very low on Rosen going into the draft and remain low on him. I had him as a late 1st round type prospect; Jeff didn't even consider him to be a first round guy.

Yep

Hearing we might have one or two transfers leaving the team this offseason. Neither guy I’m hearing about would be much of a loss; would basically just give us additional scholarships to use which we need with zero seniors on next year’s team.

One team signed Waiters to a contract the offseason that every team lost their minds and now they can’t get rid of him

All 30 NBA teams would take Grant over Waiters without giving it any thought. I don’t think any team would consider them to be close.

I think almost all of them have made the right decision for themselves, or in the one case that I thought it was a poor decision (Jerami Grant), he ended up panning out after 4+ years in the league and is now the best SU alum in the league right now. Brissett stands almost no chance of being drafted though, so if that's fine with him, it is what it is I guess.

Yeah I've heard he just basically hates Boeheim. He's not even listed among the top 100 prospects in the draft...I don't think he's going to learn anything at the combine that a simple google search wouldn't turn up. But I guess we'll see. I'd rather his minutes go to the younger guys anyways.

Yeah, hope he can carve out a nice career for himself wherever that is, but I don't foresee him getting drafted and I'm not particularly sad to lose him.

Didn’t have a chance to mention it here, but I had heard Oshae Brissett has been telling his professors that he plans to enter the draft and it appears that’s where things are headed with him seemingly posting a goodbye on Instagram.

Yes, they absolutely can. His first two tasks will be trying to convince the young guys currently on his roster not to transfer and then to try to convince the recruits not to back out. It sounds like at minimum, he's losing 2 of his 3 best players and possibly all 3 of them plus recruits that haven't stepped foot on campus yet.

For purely selfish reasons, I hope UB hires one of the Syracuse assistants as his replacement. Tough loss for you guys but what a season you guys had.

I think it ends up being one of four guys: Damien Harris Miles Sanders Karan Higdon Devine Ozigbo I don't foresee it being a Day 1 pick.

Much like the Tyrod-Cleveland match that I discussed for months leading up to the actual trade, I feel like this equally makes sense for all the reasons you outlined. Then again, I felt the same way about a Buffalo-Cam Brate trade but it doesn't seem like that one is going to happen either.

A player laying one finger on a guy is not a hint of PI lol. If it's actually a borderline PI then yeah, it'll be challenged, but I highly doubt you'll see plays with nearly zero contact that get reversed and called a PI.

"One finger" penalties never happens unless a ref just sees a guy flop and doesn't realize it's a flop. This will fix those situations. There might be some relatively soft penalties every once in awhile but that has always been the case. Defenders have always been allowed to have some amount of contact with players. Refs aren't going to be slowing the play down to see if a guy brushes up against the WR's sleeve and call that a penalty. Those types of plays likely won't even be challenged in the first place.

Lol, come on.

It's possible to block players without laying them out. It happens on every play of an NFL game without issue.

Gore was better than both McCoy and Ivory last season.