Of our young reserve offensive lineman...
Phil Costa
Jeremy Parnell
Sam Young
Robert Brewster
Travis Bright
... who do you think has the best chance to one day contribute as a starter?
I think Young very well could be your starter at RT come week 1.
Really? Isn't the knock on him he has stone feet and doesn't move well?
Young never developed into a quality starter in college. Why would he do so in the NFL?
That's not true at all. People were anticipating him announcing that he would enter the draft after his JR year because he was a consensus first round pick. He had a down SR year but so did the entire program.
You must have been looking at different boards than I was.
Talk to Notre Dame fans. They'll tell you Sam Young never developed into the player he was supposed to be. You don't go from consensus first round pick in your junior year to a late round flyer off of one down year.
Of our young reserve offensive lineman...
Phil Costa
Jeremy Parnell
Sam Young
Robert Brewster
Travis Bright
... who do you think has the best chance to one day contribute as a starter?
You must have been looking at different boards than I was.
Talk to Notre Dame fans. They'll tell you Sam Young never developed into the player he was supposed to be. You don't go from consensus first round pick in your junior year to a late round flyer off of one down year.
No, he never lived up to the hype of his recruitment but I don't know any site or scout that did not feel his was a legitimate 1st round prospect after his JR year. It's not uncommon for a player to go from a early projected 1st round pick to dropping down or off the draft board entirely. Kai Parham comes to mind. He was a highly projected 3-4 LB from Virginia after his Soph year and well into his JR season. Some early projections had him gong in the 20's of the first round. He obviously bought into the hype even after receiving a 2nd round grade from the draft committee and declared for the draft passing up his SR season only to go undrafted.
Duke Robinson of Oklahoma was another. He was projected as being the best guard in his class and he fell to the 6th round.
Good call, I remember him being a favorite of Cowboys fans. There were more then a few mocks that had him going to us in the Round 1 and more so in Round 2 just prior to the draft.
More recently, there was an offensive tackle whos name escapes me at LSU who was projected as a first rounder. He wasn't even drafted, and I don't think anyone even picked him up as a UDFA.