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I don't love Barmore, to be honest. I mean, you like the 6-5, big body but he has a lot of work that needs to be done before he can be a starter for you. His pad level is bad, which basically gets him washed out of plays a lot. He has no real pass rush moves, other then a swim which is fine but, that's not really what we need. He's not a 1 Tech, he's a 3 Tech. You would think that he could fill that role but he really hasn't at Bama. Fact is, he wasn't even the starter at Alabama so I don't get all the hype by all our fans, to be honest.
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Ohhh ok ok. Gotcha
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Yeah. 2009 was the awful draft I’ve been thinking of. Nightmare.
I’m not sure about you, but I wasn’t impressed with Gil Brandt’s draft assessment this year.
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would take next years first i think
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That’s what I thought but I saw something floating on Twitter saying he’s 270 now.
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I posted an ESPN GETUP video yesterday and they all thought he was our best pick in round one. Said interior pass rush would be the single biggest upgrade to our defense.
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What an incredibly stupid thing to say...fish, not you
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The NFL is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business.
Alabama defensive tackle Christian Barmore has excelled.
Barmore, 21, played only 24 games in two seasons at Alabama. He ended with two of his best, dominating vs. Notre Dame and Ohio State in the playoffs to help the Crimson Tide win another national championship. He was named Defensive MVP of the title game.
Pro Football Focus credited him with 12 pressures in the playoffs to go along with two sacks, three tackles for loss and seven tackles. Over the final six games of his redshirt sophomore season in 2020, he had six sacks, seven tackles for loss and two forced fumbles.
“He’s got really good initial quickness for a big guy,” Alabama coach Nick Saban told The Chronicle-Telegram in a phone interview Friday. “He’s pretty instinctive when it comes to pass rush. I’d say those are the two qualities that he has.”
Barmore’s upside and a weak tackle class make him a candidate to be picked starting around No. 10. He’s 6-foot-4, 310 pounds and ran an unofficial 4.97-second 40-yard dash at the Alabama pro day. His highlight tape shows him knifing between guards and centers to take down the quarterback and overpowering the linemen on the way to swallowing the ball carrier in the backfield.
“Barmore may have been inconsistent, but his dominant moments were as special as any defensive tackle prospect we’ve seen outside of Quinnen Williams,” according to Pro Football Focus, which ranked Barmore the No. 12 prospect in the draft. “While he put up zero pressures against the likes of Tennessee and Florida this past season, he also logged 12 pressures in the College Football Playoff against two quality interior offensive lines.”
Barmore could be pushed up due to what NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah called “one of the worst defensive tackle groups” in the last decade of the draft. Jeremiah ranked Barmore 42nd overall, calling him “very inconsistent” against the run.
“Barmore is a little bit of a boom or bust,” Jeremiah said on a conference call in March. “There is a lot of ability there. You saw the good stuff at the end of the year that gets you fired up, and then I could point out some games in the early or middle part of the season where he doesn’t look like the same guy.
“Just a little bit up and down with him, but he’s one of those ones if you hit, you hit big.”
(MY NOTE: Barmore suffered a "minor" knee injury and sat out Alabama's last scrimmage in early September. I do not know if that affected him starting or his performances in those early-season games. Saban did say before the season opener that he didn't know if Barmore would play. His numbers definitely picked up late in the season and he had five tackles in each of his last three games, the SEC Championship, Rose Bowl and National Championship, along with 2 sacks and a forced fumble. Six of his eight sacks came in the last six games, so that may be indicative of him hitting his stride or getting his health back.)
He redshirted as a freshman out of Philadelphia in 2018, then started one of 12 games in 2019 with 26 tackles, six tackles for loss, two sacks and two passes defensed. He started five of 12 games in 2020 and led the Crimson Tide with eight sacks and three forced fumbles, adding 37 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss and three passes defensed. He was named a third-team All-American.
“Barmore is naturally powerful to create immediate knockback and flashes the quickness to blast through gaps and close to the football,” wrote The Athletic’s Dane Brugler, who ranks him 20th. “While he competes with violent intentions, he gets overextended and frenetic at times and must improve his reliability versus the run. Overall, Barmore comes with obvious risk due to his inexperience and the raw elements to his game, but he doesn’t stay blocked long due to his play strength, explosiveness and energy. He projects as a position-versatile NFL starter with a Pro Bowl ceiling.”
SiriusXM NFL Radio analyst Gil Brandt said Monday that Barmore is in “perpetual motion” along the line and will be a good player for the next decade. Saban said Barmore’s coachable, which bodes well for continued improvement at the next level.
“He’s a good kid,” Saban said.