Diante Lee
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And because he is only 240 pounds, even if he adds eight to 10 pounds this offseason, maybe he's in the low 250s.
And that's just a really small type of edge rusher to be playing on early downs, especially young before you really learn how you can use your body to your advantage.
It is tricky.
I don't want to position this as though, hey, great athlete, sick player, you're going to love the whole highlight splash reel when he is drafted and you don't have to worry about this.
There are a lot of ways in which this can go sideways or get a little awry for this team.
But again, I just think the instincts, what you see on tape,
Almost everything he does well will instantly translate, I think, to being a difference making talent, potentially a difference making talent in the league.
And if you're asking me to choose between him as a project or Ruben Ben, who's got outlier arm length, I know we'll get to or David Bailey, who's another kind of smaller guy, not the greatest against the run all the time.
I'm just going to make my bet that the freakiest athlete, you know, this is a planet theory thing for me.
I'm going to make a bet that the freakiest athlete with the most versatile skill set can end up hitting, you know, maybe more than some of the other guys he's competing with for the number two pick.
I kind of laid it out right in the mock draft, and I do genuinely believe this.
If you're going to tell me what the biggest failing of Arizona's time was in the Kyler Murray era, it's that they were never able to get the offensive trenches together.
And if you're asking me what kind of impact that had, ultimately it led to this team asking Kyler Murray to be a superhero.
And for all his physical gifts, I just think it was too much weight.
And I think that if you're honestly evaluating, if you're the ownership, if you're GM Monty Austin for it, and you're sitting down and you're just looking at,
What has this been over the last half decade?
And how can we make sure that this doesn't happen again when we take a quarterback?
Making sure that you can protect the guy, that you can build a stable run game around whoever the next quarterback is should be the top priority.
And I think that Francis Maui Noah, and I'm a big upside guy in the draft too, right?
Like Francis Maui Noah, another young player who's been good for as long as he's been starting.