Connor Williams had injury stuff going on this year.
Here is the issue:
McGlinchey has been totted as beware, Right Tackle only. Much less aggressive on left side.
Kolton Miller has trouble with speed rushers and a UCLA kid like the one we Drafted last year, who might be overrated. He was inconsistent protecting Rosen.
Williams tape was better in 2016
Martinas Rankin Miss. State. might be best ready LT in first three rounds.
Here is the irony:
"Team sources are comparing Rankin to Troy's Antonio Garcia, a third-round pick of the Patriots in the 2017 NFL Draft, and think that Rankin could go in the same range. They say that Rankin is a great kid, so they think he will work hard to become a more complete player as a pro.
Rankin played well at left tackle in 2017, but he needs to get stronger for the NFL. In Week 3, he had some wins and losses against LSU's Arden Key, but Rankin was steady on the blind side all year. He is quick, athletic, and has a good build, but he has to up his strength. Rankin gets knocked on the ground too much and will get pushed around in the NFL."
DW Toys
I personally think you can describe any first round caliber tackle the way McGlinchey is described in your post. Outside of guys like Joe Thomas or Jonathan Ogden or Tony Boselli and so on, most tackles are going to look worse on the left side than they do on the right.
Even when you look at those guys who, in hindsight, are among the best to ever play, there were *still* doubts about them before they were drafted. Sticking with the Ravens, Ronnie Stanley - another Notre Dame product - was criticized for possibly not projecting at LT.
If there's a common thread I want to convey in my posts, it's that prognostication around draft time really shouldn't be trusted much, especially when it comes to offensive linemen.
I watched literally every snap McGlinchey has taken multiple times over the course of his career, and I can say that he has as much upside at LT as Solder had going into the draft. But, again, who the hell am I, you know?
I think that's the point we need to keep in mind: Fans are bad at evaluating talent and OL is the most difficult position to evaluate. Even pundits are particularly bad at projecting OL compared to other positions.
It's just not a position you can look at and say "Well this guy is head and shoulders above this other guy," unless, of course, you're looking at someone like Nelson, who's a once in a couple decades type of talent with an incredible degree of polish.
McGlinchey has the measurables and I'm really not willing to take the word of some anonymous scout who could have any agenda. He was graded as the top tackle in college football by both PFF and Walterfootball.com.
That's not even mentioning the almost unanimous feeling that he's the top tackle prospect in the draft. I really wish these scouts put their names t their evaluations, but until that happens, I take their assessments with giant chunks of salt. These guys have conflicting interest and they're not going to give any information that might do someone else's job for them.
Given where we draft, that would mean that we would expect to draft a corner in the top 50.
