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a primary knock on all of reed, robinson, and butler are that they aren't effective pass rushers
nobody would have decided they were a reach if we'd have drafted them
While that's true all of them are better defending the run as Clark. I'm not extremely disappointed about the pick but had him graded as a second rounder.
I would like to upgrade ILBs as well, but with Lee fone and Ragland having some medical issues, there were no significant ILB upgrades there. Instead we got a very good player with significant upside. Clark is a good pick.
As I've mentioned earlier in the thread I understand drafting a defensive lineman with all the question marks about the health of the best inside linebacker prospects.
I liked DL over ILB before this started and for everyone saying he's 2nd round talent well so are Jack and Smith and Ragland and everyone else.
Jack and Smith dropped because of injury concerns but both of them are top 10 talents.
Andrew Billings might be a better prospect, with some familiar concerns over motor, but he doesn't project at 34 NT. At 311 he has a lot of soft weight. In comparison Clark looks like he could add 5-10 pounds of leverage weight before the start of the season and play at a solid and respectable 325 pounds.
Clark is probably best suited to play defensive end in a 3-4.
Remember Sergio Kindle? Guy was an absolute man beast, but his chronically injured knee needed microfracture surgery.
Kindle breaking his skull months after getting drafted by the Ravens probably had a lot to do with it as well.
I get that. I guess I think at a certain point you just gotta have faith in the people in charge and alot of times the **** picks turn out wrong
Thompson's track record drafting defensive linemen in the first round doesn't instill a ton of confidence.
A lack of a good man cover backer is one reason we run the nickel so much even against run sets.
That makes absolutely no sense at all.