What This Draft Tells Us About What the FO Is Thinking

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Re: What This Draft Tells Us About What the FO Is Thinking

So you are saying Essex makes the roster and the camp battle is Urbik vs Scott? If so, Scott has the much overvalued 'position flexibility' that should vault him over Urbik..

Thats assuming that I agree with your interpretations of the o-line camp battles. I don't rule Hills out yet, and as Ramon Foster and Darnell Stapleton have proved, there could be a darkhorse undrafted guy who comes out and makes the team.

Position flexibility may be overvalued at most positions, but not on the offensive line when many times only two backups suit up. If I were a coach and only suiting up two backups for five positions, I'd want those two guys to be able to step into all of them.

And as for the size of Gibson- around 240lbs is what he's listed as. From the same transcript from Butler he talks about the size of the current ILB, and states Timmons is '250lbs'. Timmons bigger than Gibson? And Gibson is the OLB?

I'm not gonna argue their listed weights with you, I'll concede that size is probably not a valid point in this situation. The difference between Timmons and Gibson (to me anyways) is that Timmons was already an OLB coming out of college, Gibson was a DE.
When is the last time the Steelers converted a DE to ILB? I certainly don't know. And from any interviews I've read, the coaches tend to focus more on his potential ability to rush the passer.