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This should have been our pick

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NAS Grand Master

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We were all screaming for it too, was so obvious, what was Dan thinking?

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“Former NC State LB Payton Wilson is on pace to break the Pittsburgh Steelers' single-season tackles record. 

The second-year player's 8.4 tackles per game would total 142.8, which would top James Farrior's 141 from 2003.”

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1 hour ago, NAS said:

We were all screaming for it too, was so obvious, what was Dan thinking?

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“Former NC State LB Payton Wilson is on pace to break the Pittsburgh Steelers' single-season tackles record. 

The second-year player's 8.4 tackles per game would total 142.8, which would top James Farrior's 141 from 2003.”

LOL, most of us WANTED to draft him, but Dan had a boner for Trevin Wallace, I know I sure as heck wanted Wilson.  He's had injuries during college, that's a red flag, they said.  Then Jonathan Brooks entered the chat...   Make sense of it. 

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The injury argument against him was strong but as others have pointed out you chose an injured RB of all things.

Wilson was EXTREMELY CLEARLY a better football player than Wallace outside of injury/health concerns. 

We often seem to whiff on these sort of players(Trey Smith, etc) when we should be making these sort of moves. This is why I railed so much against our FO and their pursuit of RAS/Underwear Olympics champions over great FOOTBALL PLAYERS.

Now with all that being said.......Wilson has started 8 total games in his career. He is technically piling up these stats as a backup player. Had we built our roster better, Wallace might have the benefit of being a backup player racking up stats surrounded by better LB's, as well. Instead he is getting abused game in and game out as a starter before he is ready to be such.

 

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2 hours ago, CarolinaLivin said:

I wanted the Browns rookie LB this year, Carson Schwesinger

100%. I wish we had gotten one of those high level MLB's in the 2nd or 3rd. Oh well, the draft results don't look too awful so far.

9 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

two torn ACLs in college

he's playing on borrowed time

They do seem to have him on a snap count of sorts. Not sure if that is intentional or just that he isn't a starter. 

TBH, in hindsight I would have much rather gambled on him than Wallace. Wallace appears to be quickly descending towards being a special teams guy, while at least Wilson can play at a high level for spurts of time. Even if he got injured in his rookie deal, probably would end up better off than we have with Wallace.

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