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RayClay · 07-04-2009, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by jays52

"I'm not a football expert."

It's about risk mitigation. A player at said position cannot be effectively evaluated. Therefore, it makes zero sense to take a conversion prospect so high. Am I missing something in this thread? Is the translation between the positions beyond my comprehension?

I'm sorry, is the argument now that it's too difficult to predict a successful move from DE to OLB so it's not worth the risk?

Funny, in the Julius Peppers thread the argument you and your friend proposed was that it was easy as pie so we should give Julius Peppers a huge contract without knowing if he could make that transition.

So which is it?

***BradyFTW!*** · 07-04-2009, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RayClay

I'm sorry, is the argument now that it's too difficult to predict a successful move from DE to OLB so it's not worth the risk?

Funny, in the Julius Peppers thread the argument you and your friend proposed was that it was easy as pie so we should give Julius Peppers a huge contract without knowing if he could make that transition.

So which is it?

Probably has to do with Brown being a rookie and good athlete (there's plenty of inherent risk in that even if you're just drafting him to the same 4-3 DE that he was in college) whereas Peppers is a veteran and absolute freak of an athlete. I still don't agree that the conversion would be easy, but there's probably significantly less risk than there would be with using a top-10 pick on a conversion project.