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Efe Obada- Rhule is Really High on Him

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Non-draft tidbit - Rhule says he is REALLY really high on Efe Obada.
 
Really glad to hear this.  Obada hit the proverbial rookie wall in 2018, and then gained weight to keep a roster spot as a tweener OLB/DE last year.  He has the measureables of a 1st Round 4-3 DE.  Need to leave him there and coach him up.  I'm hoping he can help be a part of a DE/Edge rushing group that can surprise some people this year.
 
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Hope that the kid can take the next step forward this year but he better bring the heat this season. He got some real competition now. Burns is a lock at DE. Yetur will be groom to be the future and Weatherly is actually a good DE and could surprise a lot of people with 8-10 sacks. 

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10 minutes ago, MMA said:

Hope that the kid can take the next step forward this year but he better bring the heat this season. He got some real competition now. Burns is a lock at DE. Yetur will be groom to be the future and Weatherly is actually a good DE and could surprise a lot of people with 8-10 sacks. 

I agree with you about Weatherly surprising, but Obada could produce those kind of numbers too IMO.  His game against the Bengals a couple of years ago that won him player of the week showed elite-level talent.  Of course, he needs more consistency, but he hit his "rookie wall" in 2018, and he was miscast as a 3-4 DE last year (although he always had good effort and showed some flashes in spite of being out of position).

You can never have enough pass rushers.  Obada now has a leg up on guys like Christian Miller and Marquis Haynes who were better fits in the 3-4 last year (that never really came to fruition).

Regardless, I think Obada is a roster lock.  I hope we get a lot of of him and Weatherly while Burns and Gross-Matos develop.  Those guys are locks IMO

I think the 5th DE/EDGE spot will come down to Miller/Haynes/Chris Smith.  Maybe we end up keeping 2 of those guys.  We do have a mix of guys now to alternate fronts with several guys (Brown/Roy/Kerr) who could play the )-Tech NT in a 3-4.

Anyway, we're going to have growing pains, but I don't think we can be any worse on defense than we were last year.

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3 minutes ago, Seltzer said:

I agree with you about Weatherly surprising, but Obada could produce those kind of numbers too IMO.  His game against the Bengals a couple of years ago that won him player of the week showed elite-level talent.  Of course, he needs more consistency, but he hit his "rookie wall" in 2018, and he was miscast as a 3-4 DE last year (although he always had good effort and showed some flashes in spite of being out of position).

You can never have enough pass rushers.  Obada now has a leg up on guys like Christian Miller and Marquis Haynes who were better fits in the 3-4 last year (that never really came to fruition).

Regardless, I think Obada is a roster lock.  I hope we get a lot of of him and Weatherly while Burns and Gross-Matos develop.  Those guys are locks IMO

I think the 5th DE/EDGE spot will come down to Miller/Haynes/Chris Smith.  Maybe we end up keeping 2 of those guys.  We do have a mix of guys now to alternate fronts with several guys (Brown/Roy/Kerr) who could play the )-Tech NT in a 3-4.

Anyway, we're going to have growing pains, but I don't think we can be any worse on defense than we were last year.

Obada is just too raw of a player. If he could get it together, it’ll be fun. Haynes was spectacular in the preseason. Miller is just a football player and will be good for us. 

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I think the 5th DE/EDGE spot will come down to Miller/Haynes/Chris Smith.  Maybe we end up keeping 2 of those guys. 

I keep wondering if they'll try Miller at off ball linebacker, like 4-3 SAM or something. I think he had some experience there in college and he's the right size for it. That would leave Haynes and Smith for the last DE spot, and Smith's contract is an easy cut if Haynes shows some promise.

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