Diante Lee
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You know it.
We need you to go get more but less out of the back end, right?
We need Derwin James to be, you know, the rising tide that lifts all boats back here the way that Jesse Minter was able to do for him.
So I think that's what makes it really fascinating.
But I would definitely say interior trenches on offense, defensive playmaker on the other side of the ball.
You can probably kind of take your pick and feel good about it at pick 22.
I'm right there with you.
That was my pick here as well.
I think that of the remaining available offensive linemen, I think this is probably the most comfortable play tackle in college where we can turn him into a guard and he might actually have pro bowl potential in this offense.
surrounded by, whether it's going to be Rashawn Slater or right next to Joe Ault, whether he's playing on the left side or the right side, this is a guy that we can use on the interior to move bodies.
We know that Michael Daniel is going to be inventive and ultimately wants to play behind an offensive line.
And I would say, at least last year, I kind of looked up mid-season.
I was like, hey, man, I feel like this offensive line is playing better than it usually is when I watch Miami.
And I think that we saw that
Certainly, as they improved their interior, the Michael Daniels run game, I felt like got more detailed.
I felt like the pass protection was a lot cleaner.
They didn't have to be as inventive to try to get these clean reps off both in the run game and in the play action passing game.
I think that someone like Proctor is the kind of guy that we can look up and say, hey, just like Seattle last year with Graves Abel, where you just drop in a high level interior lineman and it immediately changes the way that you approach your identity.
in the trenches, a guy like Proctor can be that.
And I think, and the ultimate upside to me for this is, if you have any concerns at all, that if a Rayshon Slater or a Joel goes down again, that we're not going to have an answer.