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Scout On Dontari Poe: He Didn’t Do Anything
The excitement from Dontari Poe’s phenomenal Scouting Combine performance is starting to fade in the eyes of many league observers, who are turning their attention back to Poe’s tape — and not liking what they’re seeing.
Poe, the Memphis defensive tackle who took the Combine by storm by running a 4.87-second 40-yard dash at 346 pounds and bench-pressing 225 pounds 44 times, does not impress many of those who have watched him play.
“He’ll be overdrafted,” one personnel man told the Times of Trenton. “He did all of that at the Combine, so some team will take him way higher than he should go. I mean watch him play, just watch. He didn’t do anything. And he wasn’t playing at a very high level, either. All I know is he had one sack last year and it came against Austin Peay. You probably didn’t even know Austin Peay had a football team.”
When Poe announced in December that he was entering the NFL draft, he said he’d been told he projected as a second-rounder who could move into the first round with a good Combine. Poe didn’t have a good Combine — he had a great Combine — and he started being discussed as a Top 5 pick.
So those who watched him bench press and run 40 yards in a straight line are more impressed than those who watched him play football. That’s not a good sign.
Do not want. If we HAVE to take a DT then take a Jerel Worthy or Brandon Thompson in the 2nd.
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Plenty of great college DL play on weak overall lines.....and they produce. Poe had the luxury of weak competition as well..
Just bc someone is physically impressive doesn't mean good coaching will make them good football players. Poe should of done more in college.
And based on his play in a weak CUSA.....we have a clue about the answer to that question.
Poe's effort was always questioned in college as well.....proof is in the pudding and his work in college.
and that still doesnt mean he will bust. some players may take a while to develop, and again i do not want him at 9.just saying its unfair to label a guy a bust before he played a NFL snap. plus the fact that he is a junior coming out, another year to prove himself would have helped.
Doesn't mean he wil be a bust but it would make him a likely candidate to be one.
but being that he will put in the work, shrinks those chances. when ever the lightbulb goes off, he will be hell.
To me, this is a guy that may be worth the risk in the 3rd or 4th, but in no way is he worth an early pick...and God forbid in the top ten.
I've listened to and read many evaluations (by so-called professional evaluators) and have yet to see one positive other than his size and athleticism. In almost every one of them, they make some comment along the lines of "he may not of been all that productive in college, but you just can't teach that kind of size and athleticism." Yet in none of them have I heard or read someone say they watched tape and came away impressd with anything. The only reason they give for rating him high is his freakish athlticism and size.