Best OLB in the draft ?

[cysporsche]

After watching tape and reading everything I can read, I feel Randy Gregory 6'5"/255 is the best OLB that will be on the draft board assuming Dante Fowler 6'2"/261 is off the board. I know he already has a strike against him for marijuana use, but is he worth the risk ? Here are his numbers, and a few other OLB candidates:

Randy Gregory 6'5"/255 - 54 tackles,10 for loss, & 7 sacks.

Vic Beasley 6'2"/246 - 34 tackles, 23 for loss, & 12 sacks.

Shaq Thompson 6'1"/231 - 81 tackles, 2.5 for loss, with only 1 sack.

Eli Harold 6'4"/247 - 54 tackles, 18 for loss, 7 sacks.

Shane Ray 6'3"/245 - 65 tackles, 26 for loss, & 14.5 sacks.

Alvin "Bud" Dupree 6'4"/267 - 74 tackles, 15 for loss, & 7.5 sacks.

Arik Armstead 6'7"/296 - 46 tackles, 5 for loss, 2.5 sacks.

Dante Fowler Jr. 6'2"/261 - 60 tackles, 19 for loss & 8.5 sacks.

In that almost all these OLB's played DE in College, I feel it is a huge risk to pick OLB @ 6 ? I still think & hope that Amari Cooper WR 6'1"/210 or Kevin White 6'3"/210 is our choice.

Go Jets...Cyborg

 

[jetfandreamer]

After watching tape and reading everything I can read, I feel Randy Gregory 6'5"/255 is the best OLB that will be on the draft board assuming Dante Fowler 6'2"/261 is off the board. I know he already has a strike against him for marijuana use, but is he worth the risk ? Here are his numbers, and a few other OLB candidates:

Randy Gregory 6'5"/255 - 54 tackles,10 for loss, & 7 sacks.

Vic Beasley 6'2"/246 - 34 tackles, 23 for loss, & 12 sacks.

Shaq Thompson 6'1"/231 - 81 tackles, 2.5 for loss, with only 1 sack.

Eli Harold 6'4"/247 - 54 tackles, 18 for loss, 7 sacks.

Shane Ray 6'3"/245 - 65 tackles, 26 for loss, & 14.5 sacks.

Alvin "Bud" Dupree 6'4"/267 - 74 tackles, 15 for loss, & 7.5 sacks.

Arik Armstead 6'7"/296 - 46 tackles, 5 for loss, 2.5 sacks.

Dante Fowler Jr. 6'2"/261 - 60 tackles, 19 for loss & 8.5 sacks.

In that almost all these OLB's played DE in College, I feel it is a huge risk to pick OLB @ 6 ? I still think & hope that Amari Cooper WR 6'1"/210 or Kevin White 6'3"/210 is our choice.

Go Jets...Cyborg

Thanks for the insight and measurables...

I think Armstead is a great player but strictly a 3-4 DE he never really played standing up...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKnBUX-SBNE

 

[ucrenegade]

I would say fowler closely behind is dupree

then a few notch's down i put everyone else.

my 3 fav not where they expect to be drafted but I would go

dupree
fowler
harold

 

[cysporsche]

Sheldon Richardson is preaching his former Missouri player Shane Ray to anyone that will listen, and that does add a very small eliminate to the pick.

A stud DE or LB Beasley is going to have more than 34 tackles with so many sacks (12) & 30 @ Clemson. But he's being scouted as a one trick pony !

Ray like Dupree played DE their whole career with their knuckles in the dirt, so how are they in pass coverage ?

Armstead is too tall and stiff and will get killed in the NFL.

Shaq is too light in the ass to be a 3-4 OLB.

The two best OLB's in this years draft is Fowler & Randy Gregory. Fowler will be gone before 6, and if Fowler & Cooper are both gone I'm thinking Gregory might be a good pick in the end results, but Woody, MaccBowles & the Jets would get killed for picking Gregory. He's a stud. My top 5:
1) Cooper
2) Fowler
3) White
4) Gregory
5) Ray or Beasley or Dupree ?

Go Jets...Cyborg