By the way, I meant Anthony Davis out of Rutgers, not Williams.
Dude, Branden Albert has NOT played like a franchise left tackle. He just hasn't. He was an outstanding guard, and would be again.
If you guys aren't ESPN insiders, you are missing out on an excellent series of articles called the draft lab. It is an impartial, quantified analysis of each player. It calculates percentage of Point of Attack matchups won and "splash plays" which are plays where individual effort positively affect the game.
rolando mcclain actually graded out much more poorly this year than you would anticipate. After the Kentucky game, he only won 6 point of attack battles (where he took on a blocker) in 5 contests, which comes to 13%. that means that only 13% of the time taking on a blocker he won the battle, over a 5 game spread.
He also talks about mcClain's poor tackling technique, where he tackles by pulling on the front of the runner instead of wrapping his arms and stopping the momentum.
Trent Williams graded out HORRIBLY.
Anthony Davis had a very sketchy grade as well.
A couple people who grade out excellently:
Suh (I am officially campaigning for his new name to be Ndamakong Duh, since it's a no-brainer to draft him).
Gerald mcCoy (a good point of note is how well he mixed up his pass rush moves).
Bruce Campbell, OT maryland.
here's the breakdown of Campbell:
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Campbell allowed three splash plays (defined as when a defender does something to negatively impact a passing play) in the five Terrapin games I broke down (at California, vs. Clemson, vs. Virginia, at Florida State and vs. Boston College).
As noted in the Trent Williams Draft Lab (read that here), the best professional pass rushers allow four or fewer splash plays in a season -- so this isn't a dominant number. Having said that, it does compare favorably to Williams' splash play totals (four in five games) and was much better than the number tallied
in Anthony Davis' Draft Lab (eight splash plays in five games).
Going on those numbers alone, I would have considered Campbell a solid professional left tackle prospect, but his stock shot up considerably when reviewing the run metric totals. Campbell was at the Point of Attack (POA) of a running play 38 times and won 35 of his blocks. That equates to a 92.1% POA win percentage, which, as detailed in the Peters analysis, would be an elite number in the NFL. In addition, Campbell received double team blocking help on only 11 of those plays, so his one-on-one POA win percentage was a superb 88.9%.
The scouting eye notes on Campbell's run blocking weren't quite as good as numbers, but they were still almost entirely positive. One bright spot was that he was used as a pulling tackle quite often, which is an underrated skill that many NFL teams would take advantage of. His biggest issue is that he didn't consistently finish his blocks. That would be a problem if it were due to a lack of effort, but in Campbell's case it was inconsistent technique, so it is something that should be able to be coached out of him.
From a pass blocking viewpoint, the major scouting eye concern is that Campbell received a lot of help from other blockers; this made me look back at the numbers, which showed Campbell received some kind of assistance from another blocker on 31 out of 120 dropback pass plays. That is a bit higher than one would expect from an elite pass blocker, but it is probably more due to Maryland's heavy use of zone blocking and facing two teams with 3-4 schemes than it is a sign that Campbell has blocking issues"
Add to this the fact that his name is Bruce Campbell, the greatest actor to ever chop off his own hand and replace it with a chainsaw, and I say go get him.
My mock...what do we think?
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