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Do we stay away from players from specific schools?

micnificent28

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I don't think this is intentional but, I always wonder why we don't target players from higher profile colleges. Teams that win championships like Alabama,FSU, and Clemson don't have a large presence on our team. To me those school land the big time recruits out of high school thus,probably have higher athletic upside. Does that correlate to the lack of team speed or athletic upside? Or is this a part of a underlying problem that we assume kids from certain programs have more red flags or off the field issues? Is that why we chose Moore over Ridley? This is largely just offseason banter and I don't put a ton of stock in it but,It's clear our roster doesn't have a large presence from certain school who produce nation championships on a regular basis. If it was me my team would probably be full of bama kids or fsu kids kind of like the eagles who just won the chip.

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I was wondering the same thing, but more so if we just avoid weather coast, but I didn't watch the whole draft, nor do I have any clue who we drafted after rd3, so idk if we went west coast or not haha, just always seems we draft close to home

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You can’t put too much stock into high school. See Jimmy Clausen and Tyler Brayton. Alabama’s front 7 wins them championships but are not a direct scheme fit for us and they do not overpower NFL OL like they did at bama. We just drafted an LSU corner. I’m sure we’d draft Ferrell from Clemson in 19’ given the opportunity.

 

The best WR in the league went to Central Michigan, best QB Michigan, best RB Michigan St, best TE Arizona, best DT Pittsburgh, best LB Boston College, etc.

they all come from different teams

 

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This isn’t true. We may not draft certain players that played certain schemes but we have had players from all of those colleges, usually udfa but still we do sign them. Even this draft we signed a Clemson udfa, we did last year as well. Roman Harper and Robert Lester are two safeties that I remember off the top of my head. We also traded for Kevin Norwood who played for Alabama a few years ago.

 

Cam Newton is from a national championship team.

 

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MARYLAND / LSU / TENNESSEE / INDIANA / OLE MISS / MARYLAND / UNC / MIA 

The above are all the colleges we drafted players from, all are fairly close to our own ''region'' as a Carolina centered sports franchise. The above colleges cover the following:

Big 10 / SEC / ACC 

That's about as power conference affiliated as you're gonna get for the most part. 

Even the UDFA's hail from schools like - CLEMSON / PENN ST / LOUISVILLE / WV / MICH ST / OHIO ST / HOUSTON

So to say we stay away from specific schools isn't really founded on anything of substance. 

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Also Alabama runs a 3-4, players from their front seven would not fit our base 4-3 scheme for those that would bang that drum. Notice that Payne this year and Allen last both went to WAS <<< a 3-4 defensive front. 

Some of you guys should really start to consider what these colleges run, on offense / defense, and try to cross reference it with what we do, that in and of itself will help provide some clarity on potential draftees, or even schemes a FA is coming from. 

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2 hours ago, Swaggasaurus said:

You can’t put too much stock into high school. See Jimmy Clausen and Tyler Brayton. Alabama’s front 7 wins them championships but are not a direct scheme fit for us and they do not overpower NFL OL like they did at bama. We just drafted an LSU corner. I’m sure we’d draft Ferrell from Clemson in 19’ given the opportunity.

 

The best WR in the league went to Central Michigan, best QB Michigan, best RB Michigan St, best TE Arizona, best DT Pittsburgh, best LB Boston College, etc.

they all come from different teams

 

In essence, individuals are recruited, not schools. 

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5 hours ago, SetfreexX said:

Also Alabama runs a 3-4, players from their front seven would not fit our base 4-3 scheme for those that would bang that drum. Notice that Payne this year and Allen last both went to WAS <<< a 3-4 defensive front. 

Some of you guys should really start to consider what these colleges run, on offense / defense, and try to cross reference it with what we do, that in and of itself will help provide some clarity on potential draftees, or even schemes a FA is coming from. 

What about Alabama’s offensive line? They run a power heavy run which I would say would translate to what we do well and they have a history of landing the top graded offensive line prospects..

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6 hours ago, Swaggasaurus said:

You can’t put too much stock into high school. See Jimmy Clausen and Tyler Brayton. Alabama’s front 7 wins them championships but are not a direct scheme fit for us and they do not overpower NFL OL like they did at bama. We just drafted an LSU corner. I’m sure we’d draft Ferrell from Clemson in 19’ given the opportunity.

 

The best WR in the league went to Central Michigan, best QB Michigan, best RB Michigan St, best TE Arizona, best DT Pittsburgh, best LB Boston College, etc.

they all come from different teams

 

 

You picked 2 of the worst case senerios... but on average most of all the top players who are recruited out 5 Star or so are drafted. A lot of them go on to be stars at a higher rate.. Derwin James Eric berry Adrian Peterson and so on. The percentages lean towards if your Going to guess its better to guess on a kid who has been rated a top athlete for 7-8 years of his life than some unknown.

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