2 dts were taken between hill and #90.
dre'mont jone at #71
saunders at #84
look at how hill compares with these 2 physically.
hills weighs 310-330
jones is much smaller at 281 while saunders is 320 with shorter arms.
furthermore, hill is superior athletically to jones in all the important categories
and superior athletically to saunders in 3 out of 4 categories.
for the critical penetration stats for 3t, hill is vastly more explosive than both, even the smaller jones.
vertical jump (pure explosiveness) is 35" for hill while for 30.5" saunders and 31.5" for the much smaller jones.
broad jump (explosive + balance) is 115" for hill while 101" for saunders and 110" for much smaller jones
3 cone (pure agility) is 7.7 for hill while 7.57 for saunders and 7.71 for jones
shuttle (agility + explosion) is 4.38 for hill while 4.62 for saunders and 4.53 for jones
since some call saunder explosive, what does that make hill - rocket launched?
seriously doubt hill would have last until 90
Saunders is more of a high floor low ceiling type. His high is prolly a 6.5, Hill's potential is a 9. However, Saunders low is a 4.5, Hill's is a 1.5.
I liked both a draft prospects.
Saunders was 324 when his times/jumps were measured. Hill was 308.
I think Saunders would drop a few pounds if he had played 3-tech for the Cowboys. Marinelli had Woods drop 30 pounds last year.
If Saunders dropped 10 pounds his times/jumps would likely be even better (his 3-cone and 10-yard times were quite impressive already).
Saunders had 18 sacks in college.
The only downside with Saunders was lack of height and short-ish arms.
I down see a huge difference in floor or ceiling between Hill and Saunders.
It seems fairly obvious at this point that the only problem with Hill is that he was very devoted to the original UCF coaches and had totally bought into what they taught him.
When the new coaches told him to abandon the previous coaches methods, he had a hard time doing it. The emotions of not being able to transfer didn't help.
To me part of that points to the first coaching staff being better than the 2nd one and I think the coaches backgrounds would support that concept.
Despite all of that, Randy Shannon, the 2nd D-Coordinator gave a somewhat glowing report on Hill in the interview that he did. It seemed that the decision on Hill starting was not made by him. It seems that the Head Coach made the decision to not start Hill.
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