ROUND 3 PICK 93 - DT MONTRAVIUS ADAMS (AUBURN)

TT is loving his alliterate draft picks. I'm calling Alex Armah (FB - West Georgia) or Antony Auclair (TE - Laval) with this pick.

Montravius Adams, DT, Auburn

Seems like a guy who, when he's on he is VERY ON, but he's not always on. Elite size, elite athleticism, just needs to take the next step and stay consistent. 

Scary boom-or-bust type pick.

Ran the fastest 40 for any DT over 300 lbs.  TT drafting for speed.

Just became father to a baby boy tonight.

Will we take an offensive player this draft?

Rusty posted:

Is Thompson admitting Kenny Clark was a huge miss?

No, but he is saying that guys with strikes against them in the substance policy are risky...

The Packers inside linebacking corps just got better with this pick.  Adams and Clark are going to force double teams and push the center of the OL helping to keep Ryan and Martinez clean.  Hell, AJ Hawk might be able to play behind those two DT's.

Teams can never have enough big uglies up front, especially the first quarter of the season (warm weather games) and the last quarter (depth and rotation).
His perceived weaknesses should be easily corrected with good coaching and learning. He will have good guys to go against in practices.

Not seeing a lot of downside with this pick.

His top 2 athletic comparisons on Mockdraftable.com are Justin Harrell and Khyri Thornton. Good god. Very iffy on this pick. He's shown flashes but not anywhere near enough.

I think Adams is more disruptive than those two. I'd be shocked if he's a complete no-show.

Justin Harrell & Khyri Thornton 

God I hope not.

Looked back at 2014 1st round, entire league drafted pretty well. Not as many busts as previous years.

Hopefully this guy is more Mike Daniels than Khyri Thornton 

 I get it, athletic big men are hard to find and it's up to Trgo now, but meh. Historically underachieving guys are for pointless middle management jobs in daddy's company, but rather risky in the NFL. There's no doubt the raw skills are there.

We haven't had a whole lot of luck with underachieving DL over the years.  If work ethic is a concern in college it might be worse in the pros given they are getting paid and there are far more distractions. 

Hope the kid can overcome that stigma but I'm not going to hold my breath.  Seems like a strange TT pick.  

I like this pick, I think he played better with better coaching

oh ****

Check cashing DOG or CHECK cashing dog?  #76 needs to show him what a real Check looks like to inspire him.

NOT JOE MIXON!

I'm just happy we finally got a guy with a made up name.

Cletidus doesn't count?

Now that's what I'm talking about. 

His son was born hours before he was drafted. He was at the hospital with his fiance from about 3:30 AM and the baby was born about 2:30 PM as I recall from reading about this pick. He was still at the hospital when drafted which is where he received the call from TT. He kinda cut short the media conference call saying something like "getting too many calls, phones beeping, and cant hear what your saying". But said family comes first, football second or something like that.

Anyway, I suspect he will be WAY more motivated now that he has a son and future wife to feed. Becoming a father has a way of changing priorities for the better. 

Becoming a father has a way of changing priorities for the better. 

Tell that to Antonio Cromartie. 

Shawn Kemp should be a super, super, super, super etc dad.

Kemp and Cromartie aren't fathers. They are simple celled mobile bags of baby batter. 

Adrian Peterson batters babies, too.... 

Kid gets stuck with #90.  Hope he can handle dropping 89 from college

Fedya posted:

Becoming a father has a way of changing priorities for the better. 

Tell that to Antonio Cromartie. 

There is a difference between being a gene donor and being a father.

From FoxSports:  15 steals in the 2017 NFL Draft

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He has a lot of Jerel Worthy to him, for better or worse. 

Jerel Worthy is not a favorable comparison.    Top 15 tallant but just horrific work habits and lacking motivation.

If helping the D improve just enough to get them back to Feb isn't enough motivation, there is no hope for the kid.

Here comes a little wild ass unsubstantiated speculation. 

I think highly graded DLineman have the toughest transition to the NFL outside of QB. I think any DL kid that has a 1-3 draft grade has made a living in college feasting on average D1 offensive lineman. If you go first three rounds it's probable you are the best DL on your college team. They've probably spent three years getting by on pure talent that is simply better than they are facing. 

Then they get to the NFL and all of a sudden they are facing real talent. And that means they suddenly have to put in some real work. Which a lot of them really didn't have to do in college. And it's a huge shock to the system. Some put in the work. But I think the majority just get frustrated. 

The interesting thing about Adams production is that the majority of it came against either SEC competition or good Non-Conference opponents. His total career stat line:

147 Tackles, 19.5 TFL, 10.5 Sacks, 2 INTs

Against opponents that you would consider the "easy" non-conference teams his production was:

24 Tackles, 4 TFL, 3 Sacks, 2 INTs

I don't know if that's a positive stat or a negative. Certainly it's a positive that his most productive games were usually against better SEC competition, but you'd like to see him feast more on average competition from the C-USA, FCS, etc. 

Some would say he thrives on competition or he plays down to the level of his opponents. If it's the former, going to the NFL will help him.

SEC had six defensive lineman selected in the first three rounds of this draft compared to only two offensive lineman. Cam Robinson and Ethan Pocic. Both round two selections. 

Im assuming Adams spent most of his game locked up with Pocic. Which could be good news. 3 tackles. 2 for loss. .5 sack. 

In what has to be an anomaly. Pocic was the only true interior lineman from the SEC drafted in 2017. Every other selection was an OT. 

Grave Digger posted:

Certainly it's a positive that his most productive games were usually against better SEC competition, but you'd like to see him feast more on average competition from the C-USA, FCS, etc. 

Were snap counts comparable?

The other thought is... did those non-conference opponents just say screw it, we're going to double team Adams and take our chances 1 on 1 with the other guys?  Not saying that's what happened, but it's possible.  Maybe the conference opponents were more likely to test him man on man.