2) OT Andre Dillard. Dillard had a bad rookie season (and not just at RT), before being lost for the season in 2020 with a torn biceps. His stock isn’t exactly high at the moment. Earlier this week we published a review of Jordan Mailata’s 2020 season, and came to the conclusion that Mailata is a better football player right now than Dillard. Mailata is also a year and a half younger, and presumably has more upside given that his first non-exhibition football game ever occurred fewer than eight months ago. So if we’re penciling Mailata in as the starting LT, Dillard is little more than a backup LT on this roster. Can he play somewhere else instead if need be? Eh, probably not. The Eagles can’t trust him to be a swing tackle because he proved in 2019 that he was a disaster at RT. He is also a bad candidate to move inside to guard, because his biggest flaw is that he struggles anchoring against power. Some of the nastier DTs in the league would eat him alive in there. So it’s
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2021 NFL Mock Draft: Pittsburgh Steelers take a tackle
With the 24th overall pick in the 2021 Bleeding Green Nation community mock draft, Pittsburgh Steelers GM Gregnado selects . Community submission by
Samuel Cosmi, OT, Texas
The first run on a position is now in motion as three of the past four picks take the remaining projected round 1 offensive tackles. For the Steelers, this is a pick that will get a majority of their fans throwing their coleslaw-and-fry-filled sandwiches at me playing GM Kevin Colbert as both of the top RBs were still on the board. But this is the right pick.
Matt Canada was promoted to offensive coordinator this offseason to bring, as team President Art Rooney II said, the new offensive schemes you see around the league to the Steelers. The change to the Steelers should not be underestimated.
So, without further ado .
Pick No. 16. Arizona Cardinals/Revenge of the Birds: Jaelan Phillips, EDGE - Miami
The way the board has fallen, Arizona normally would be looking at a cornerback, an offensive lineman or even a wide receiver who could fall to this spot. However, in an EDGE class that’s filled without a standout bonafide top-10 pick on the board, Jaelan Phillips stands above the other EDGE players in this class and also fills a need in the short and long-term to give Arizona one scary defense.
Phillips has all of the hands to shed and explode in the run game (watch a few clips of him . guys struggle to get their hands on him) but it’s his bend off the edge that is where he shows first-round pass rush ability:
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As we have discussed many times, the top of the 2021 NFL Draft is going to be predictable in a sort of surprising way. What I mean by this is that we know three quarterbacks are going to go in the first three picks, and we know the names that will follow in the next six or so selections, the order is just going to be shuffled in some random order.
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