Revisiting the Greg Little trade….

[rmoneyg35]

He was originally projected to be a first round pick.

[LinvilleGorge]

9 minutes ago, stbugs said:

Like many of said at the time, WTF did we trade up for him?

Still the worst OL performance at the Combine I've ever seen. I'm pretty sure I said afterward that I wouldn't have the guy on my draft board, period. Undraftable.

[UnluckyforSome]

Terrible player. Terrible pick. He was constantly beaten like a drum. Do we really have to revisit anything to do with him?

[tiger7_88]

1 hour ago, stbugs said:

Pre-combine/draft workouts he was. After, he was dropped from many top 50 lists. As @LinvilleGorge said above, those of us who watched the combine drills saw how bad he was. As fluid as Burns looked at the same combine in his drills, Little looked completely opposite. The fact that we would have picked Little if Burns wasn’t there shows you why this team went from 4 playoff appearances in 5 years to talent drained in 3 years with Hurney at the helm.

I saw Little struggle for years against truly talented pass-rushers in the SEC which always made me a hard “no” on drafting him.

His rep started as his being one of the most highly ranked recruits coming out of high school and, because of that, that reputation was fixed in some peoples minds in perpetuity.

[DaveThePanther2008]

I thought I saw him playing guard earlier in the season.  He might be a serviceable guard, but he stinks as a tackle. 

[TheProcess]

And just think, when both tackles were injured in Miami, they started Little and signed Brandon Shell instead of playing Larnel Coleman. 

[rmoneyg35]

22 hours ago, stbugs said:

Pre-combine/draft workouts he was. After, he was dropped from many top 50 lists. As @LinvilleGorge said above, those of us who watched the combine drills saw how bad he was. As fluid as Burns looked at the same combine in his drills, Little looked completely opposite. The fact that we would have picked Little if Burns wasn’t there shows you why this team went from 4 playoff appearances in 5 years to talent drained in 3 years with Hurney at the helm.

To be fair Orlando brown was horrible in work outs, I think historically one of the worst all time and look how he turned out. He was arguably the top LT in the draft for a while. Some players just don’t have enough to make it to the next level.

[SmokinwithWilly]

5 minutes ago, stbugs said:

I’m assuming you didn’t watch the combine. Brown’s terrible results were in the measurements and honestly, knowing he didn’t care to even bother getting ready for the combine. Little’s problems weren’t mainly in the measurements, they were in the drills where you see stuff like if the player can swivel their hips in stride. A drill like that is where you want to see if an OL could say be working on a double team left and then let the other guy handle it and pickup a blitzer on the right. All those type of OL drills are where Little looked atrocious. I watched that combine because I recall how good Burns looked. His pass coverage skills were great and he made an amazing interception. Funny since everyone screamed about dropping him back before he tipped that one pass for an interception.

Also, one other huge thing is that we used pick 47 and 77 to trade up to 37. Brown was picked by the Ravens with pick 83. Brown was out of shape but still considered a better prospect before the combine. Little should have gone way later, just glad the Commanders didn’t pass on Haskins and we went Little at 16 as was discussed by many as our backup plan.

When I watched it I kept asking myself if he had ever done these drills before. His footwork was god awful. It looked like a really bad tire drill. None of it was fluid. It was all clunky and painful to watch, like one of those videos where someone loses their balance, tries to save themselves, then face plants down a staircase. 

[Mr. Scot]

I considered a thread about revisiting Little's Panthers career and highlights, but decided against it