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Originally Posted by staylor26
Have you listened to Veach and Reid? Hitchens is our 3 down LB. PFF doesn’t know what a good 3 down LB looks like. I’ve seen the breakdowns of Hitchens, and he’ll be fine there. Much better than DJ and KPL last year.
That shitty ****ing mock goes to show how bad they are at evaluating talent at the end of the day though.
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Wow this got you upset! First of all, PFF actually pretty positively grades Hitchens, so they like him as much as the Chiefs do, he's just never got plus coverage grades. Also, is Ragland a 3 down linebacker also? Last year KPL came on for the third down in place of Ragland, so their assertion that a coverage linebacker could add some value isn't exactly ridiculous, considering both LBs who played 3rd downs last year are gone.
I think the jury is still out on their ability to evaluate talent, you need more years of data following players from college to the NFL to really see if their system works, but I don't have anything against their brand of analytical approach to evaluation.