ChrisPozz wrote:Ray_Dogg wrote:ChrisPozz wrote:
Ballage and Samuels impressed. I heard so much negativity about Ballage before this week. Seems like he might have disproved a lot of that.
Samuels I noticed a bunch watching all the Chubb games. Still all week NFL Network wouldn’t shut up about where he would play and kept saying H back even though he played RB all week and looked natural doing it. Oh well, whatever.
There's been some talk why Ballage, Samuels, and Wadley didn't do this or show that this week. Admittedly I did not see EVERYTHING, but it was mentioned a couple times on air, and I also noticed that the North OL played COLLECTIVELY somewhere around garbage to below average as a unit. That had something to do with them when it got to the team stuff.
As individual players went that's where each started to earn and kind of all cement their money as well IMO. It was better for them when they weren't so OL reliant I thought.
I really like Ballage's movement skills. Definitely has the height/weight/speed thing going for him. Was not overworked either and never led his team in carries if memory serves me correctly. That can be taken a lot of ways. He'd be a definite consideration with me for his MOVEMENT skills alone. A lot of the negativity around Ballage is because of the uncertainty that comes with him.
Samuels is also another candidate because of those movement skills. There's move guys every year where the main debate is, "Yeah, but where are you going to play them?" Usually after I watch them over and over I feel pretty good from afar what I think they should be doing but then you have a couple of the special move guys where it's like, "Screw it, I don't care where you play this guy. You take him and you play him where you have to regardless of who you have." Charles Clay was a move guy, for instance, that was one of those guys for me. I don't QUITE know yet if Samuels is going to be a "Screw it. You take him and play this guy" candidate but he's a tick below that for now and on the considerations list. I haven't checked him off the list yet.
It's kind of backwards thinking because I guess one should want the most talent possible available each year in the draft but it seems like I go in watching every Senior Bowl hoping I can start to eliminate some guys from consideration so the picture gets a little clearer. Well, this year I feel like I almost have more sitting at the computer and TV going over this stuff than maybe any other year I've followed the draft since 1998 (when things were WAY different then). Guys I hadn't previously thought I was going to want to add for consideration have started to pop up from all over and now it's making me want to add more projects to the list.
It'll get better just because some of the personality stuff starts to get out there in February and that checks off some guys and then you have combine stories and all that gets tied into that and people start to share notes and that helps so it'll make itself more clear this next month but I do feel like that there's more additions to my lists following the Senior Bowl than there maybe ever has been in any previous year.
Exactly. I also have faith that Kyle would use players like this in his offense too. It’s not like he had Coleman and Freeman this year haha. Get him some weapons out of the backfield.
