Originally Posted by
phillyesq
Smith had 19.5 sacks after 5 years. Hood has 11.5 Aaron Smith had 7 pass deflections in his 5th year. Ziggy Hood has 7 in his career. Ziggy's high in tackles is 26. Aaron Smith's high was 55 and he only had 2 years with less than Ziggy's high, including his rookie year when he played sparingly.
On stats alone, Ziggy was not in the same ballpark, let alone better than Aaron Smith.
Of course, we both know that the true value in a 3-4 DE goes well beyond the stat sheet. How many games have we seen where an opponent comes out of the gate and runs right at Ziggy?
I get that Ziggy Hood was the 32nd pick. There were a ton of guys who were worse selected right after him. There were also guys like Max Unger left on the board. Even for the 32nd pick, you can expect a player to be an asset, but Ziggy is just a guy. He's obviously no Smith (Aaron or Justin, take your pick), and that is an awfully high standard. But I don't even think he is a KVO.
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