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After touting your studying the drat, i expected some insight somewhere in this thread as you why you thought DA was a bad pick. I found nada.
I didn’t make this thread or make any comments on Armstrong in it..or even read most of it for that matter. But if you’d like my opinion I’d be happy to give it to you.
Armstrong had 1 year of production and is a mediocre athlete for a pass rusher. I don’t care about his 40 either, but when you look at the rest of his workout #’s he’s not explosive and his short area quickness is decent, but not great. Even watching the drills you can see he struggles to stay low and change direction.
He also went almost exclusively against Big 12 RT’s and I wasn’t that impressed with him in terms of pass rush skills. I thought a lot of his pressure/sacks came off of downright bad OT play or hussel plays where the QB held onto the ball too long. And that’s just ‘16, not ‘17 when he played out of position. I didn’t see a spin, swim or any real pass rush moves.
What I do like is that he has long arms that he uses pretty well and does show a little bit of bend in his hips/lower body. Other than that I think Rod is going to be starting with a blank slate that doesn’t have a particularly great NFL skill set. I’d say his best chance of success is getting up to around 270+ without losing what athleticism he does have so he has a shot to be a good base DE.