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Round 2: The Carolina Panthers select DT Lee Hunter (Texas Tech)

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1 minute ago, pantherj said:

He doesn't fit our defense at all. He's not big enough to play NT, and he's too short with an even shorter wingspan to play DE for us. So we traded up for someone who belongs in a 4-3. Draft is not going great. 

This guy is more than big enough to be a NT, he was easily one of the best NT in college football last year. Dude is strong as an ox watch the tape this guy eats up gaps and allows linebackers to flow behind him.

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Just now, WUnderhill said:

Did the Vikings tell us they were gonna take him if we didn’t trade? Only way I can make sense of dropping a whole round of picks in the middle of the draft just to move up 2 spots in the second.

Jets were going to take him.

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6 minutes ago, pantherj said:

He doesn't fit our defense at all. He's not big enough to play NT, and he's too short with an even shorter wingspan to play DE for us. So we traded up for someone who belongs in a 4-3. Draft is not going great. 

Disagree with this, dude is huge!!!  Big enough to be a NT and has been a very good one.  So far I like the draft, not sexy but building the most important things, the trenches!

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If he hadn't bombed the combine he could have been a possible late first rounder. And going off his Oregon game he's 100% worth a late 1st. That vertical was/is wildly dissapointing..he may have set a record as the worst. 

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41 minutes ago, Saca312 said:

Consensus seems to be David Bailey and Jacob Rodriguez owe a lot of their success to Hunter's impact on the line. Can't complain about that.

I definitely had the thought that our LBs just got a little better with this. Maybe that is Wallace’s hang up, too much traffic to cut through. (I don’t really think that, more being hopeful)
Regardless, drawing attention that might otherwise go to a lb is what you want. 
 

I’m not worried about some late throwaway pick to get a starter.  

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1 minute ago, ColumbusCounty said:

If he hadn't bombed the combine he could have been a possible late first rounder. And going off his Oregon game he's 100% worth a late 1st. That vertical was/is wildly dissapointing..he may have set a record as the worst. 

The thing with the vertical is, at this position, NT, why do we care, big man maul someone!!!  I don’t need you to jump, I need you to run over people, he does that!

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