Sell me on: Daxton Hill

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Im going to try a new thing this year where I ask Zoners to make a complelling argument as to why a player should be considered in the draft. Its not necessarily going to be a guy I personally need to be sold, but I want to hear your arguments.

Ill try to do two a week. One offensive, one defensive

Sell me on: Daxton Hill, S Michigan
 
darthseinfeld said:
Im going to try a new thing this year where I ask Zoners to make a complelling argument as to why a player should be considered in the draft. Its not necessarily going to be a guy I personally need to be sold, but I want to hear your arguments.

Ill try to do two a week. One offensive, one defensive

Sell me on: Daxton Hill, S Michigan
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Our board is picked clean and we trade down and take him.
He's an athletic freak. But the NFL is full of athletic freaks.
I guess I didn't do a good job selling him.
 
  • Hill's combine was absolutely filthy - 4.38 40, 10'1" BJ, and a mind nuking 6.57 3 cone time. He plays with that level of athleticism on the field as well.
  • Elite at man coverage. 32" arms with his speed and his man-cover skills make me think he could be a really good outside CB.
  • He's unafraid to hit people and get physical. Sometimes those track-star type of guys will duck contact and lean on their athletic gifts, but Hill is happy to mix it up.
  • Pretty aware and good at reading offensive play designs. Sees screens coming, dodges receivers coming for him on pick plays.
The only things I can dog him on are that he doesn't have great ball skills, and he's never really played a lot of the deep-safety role that people want to project him at. (ETA: it looks like Hill played deep safety a lot more in previous seasons... I've only watched his 2021 film).

Overall, I'd grade Hill in the teens. He has some really impressive strengths and very few weaknesses. High floor, high ceiling type of dude.
 
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beware_d-ware said:
  • Hill's combine was absolutely filthy - 4.38 40, 10'1" BJ, and a mind nuking 6.57 3 cone time. He plays with that level of athleticism on the field as well.
  • Elite at man coverage. 32" arms with his measurables and his man-cover skills make me think he could be a really good outside CB.
  • He's unafraid to hit people and get physical. Sometimes those track-star type of guys will duck contact and lean on their athletic gifts, but Hill is happy to mix it up.
  • Pretty aware and good at reading offensive play designs. Sees screens coming, dodges receivers coming for him on pick plays.
The only things I can dog him on are that he doesn't have great ball skills, and he's never really played a lot of the deep-safety role that people want to project him at.

Overall, I'd grade Hill in the teens. He has some really impressive strengths and very few weaknesses. High floor, high ceiling type of dude.
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Id say given our penchant for creating TO's under this defensive, Im less concerned about ball skills than I was for prior drafts.
 
Given complaints about safeties not taking the correct angle whilst attempting a tackle, I would insist that future Cowboys safeties score an A in their Geometry class.
 
Ranked 43 overall. He would be good value at 56. Doesn't really show the ballhawking I like to see in DBs.
 
darthseinfeld said:
Im going to try a new thing this year where I ask Zoners to make a complelling argument as to why a player should be considered in the draft. Its not necessarily going to be a guy I personally need to be sold, but I want to hear your arguments.

Ill try to do two a week. One offensive, one defensive

Sell me on: Daxton Hill, S Michigan
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He is the Parsons chess piece in the secondary. You can line him up everywhere, even corner, depending on the matchups. Is very physical and a strong tackler, despite his size. His athletic score was elite. If we didn't have so many other needs, he would seriously be a primary target at 24.
 
i would take him at 24 if things get wiped out for us,that kind of athleticism and closing speed is very rare in a safety.
 
Hardline said:
Our board is picked clean and we trade down and take him.
He's an athletic freak. But the NFL is full of athletic freaks.
I guess I didn't do a good job selling him.
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No need to try and sell him as it is seriously doubtful we would take him in the first or a trade down. Maybe, as you noted, the board is taken apart but I am not sure even at that point.
This team does not value safety in the first. I don't know if Dan Quinn could change that or not. We might need to send in R2D2 into the cowboys complex on draft day with a message from Leah saying Dan Quinn you are our only hope.
 
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