Nfl Offensive Rookie Of The Year Odds
NFL rookies and veterans alike are experiencing a pre-season unlike any other in the league’s history. Will the lack of August exhibition games hinder highly touted talents like Joe Burrow and Clyde Edwards-Helaire, or could it actually help the first-year players with the lack of NFL game tape floating around? In other words, there’s a surprise element in play with these rookies. This page looks at offensive and defensive NFL Rookie of the Year odds, as well as player-specific rookie props.
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Nfl Offensive Rookie Of The Year Odds
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When projecting college players to the NFL, one of the most obviously important aspects of that process is the understanding of scheme and positional fit at the next level. One of the more interesting parts of that process is the number of college offensive tackles who have been asked to kick inside to guard when they go pro.
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Whether due to height, arm length, movement and agility concerns, or simple team need, it’s happened a lot in the last decade. Zack Martin, Joel Bitonio, Brandon Scherff, Kelechi Osemele, and Jamon Brown are among the tackle-to-guard converts who have played levels from starter to All-Pro over the last decade. Mitch Morse even converted from left tackle at Missouri to center for the Chiefs, who selected him in the second round of the 2015 draft, and Morse has played at a high level for both Kansas City and Buffalo.
That said, it’s not always sensible to move a guy around. With the retirement of left tackle Anthony Castonzo, the Colts are reportedly toying with the idea of moving left guard Quenton Nelson outside. Which seems insane to me. Nelson is the best guard of his era, and one of the best I’ve ever scouted. I had Nelson as the best overall player in the 2018 draft class ahead of everyone from Lamar Jackson to Josh Allen to Baker Mayfield to Nick Chubb, and if I had to do it all over again in 2021, I’d still give Nelson the nod among all players in that class.
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You can draft a left tackle (I had the Colts taking Virginia Tech’s Christian Darrisaw 21st overall in my most recent mock draft). You can sign a free-agent left tackle, and the Colts have the cap space to do just that. But you don’t take the best player at his position in at least the last decade and start messing with his natural home. At least, that’s how I see it.
How I also see it is that just because a player doesn’t fit your physical parameters for the position doesn’t mean he can’t play the position at an exceedingly high level, no matter the circumstance. What this is all leading up to is the professional future of Northwestern offensive lineman Rashawn Slater.
At 6-foot-4 and 314 pounds, Slater (literally) falls short when it comes to the preferred height for NFL left tackles, and there are arm length concerns as well. That’s led a lot of people to automatically kick Slater inside to guard in their heads once he hits the NFL, but that’s not at all how I would project Slater’s future. Especially after the first time I watched Slater deal with Ohio State’s Chase Young in 2019. Slater opted out of the 2020 season, but after this game, you could say he’d done all he needed to do.
And I’m not alone.
Mr. Brugler is absolutely on the nose here. Longtime offensive line performance coach Duke Manyweather, who I worked with on Bleacher Report’s NFL1000 project in 2017 and 2018, and has worked with Slater himself, had this to say on the subject.
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“Rashawn is a tackle, I don’t care what anyone says,” Manyweather told Brugler last October. “At some point, teams have to realize they’re missing badly on offensive linemen because they’re looking at bull things that are ancillary. Don’t get me wrong, things like length are important when trying to make up the gap. But Rashawn understands technique and body position extremely well. I’ve been doing this a long time and rarely miss on this – he’s a tackle.”
Against Ohio State and specifically Chase Young in the sixth game of the 2019 season, Slater never let his play slip at all despite the fact that the Wildcats took a 52-3 butt-kicking from the Buckeyes. Slater was powerful, technically sound, and mean off the snap from start to finish, and when Young (the 2020 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year) faced Slater, he was able to accomplish very little. In fact, there were times when Slater physically dominated Young, which is something a lot of NFL tackles found exceedingly difficult to do. Slater allowed no sacks, no quarterback hits, and two quarterback hurries in the game, and no sacks, one quarterback hit, and four quarterback hurries in 355 pass-blocking snaps in the 2019 season.
“You know that NBA clip with Matt Barnes and the in-bounds play where Kobe (Bryant) doesn’t blink? That’s Rashawn. He doesn’t blink,” Manyweather concluded when asked about the Young matchup. “Him and Chase were matched up 16, 17 times throughout the game, and Rashawn won almost every rep because he was so clear on his strong suits and his technique. I saw a calm, consistent player.”
So did I, which is why I sent Slater to the Chargers with the 13th overall pick in my mock draft. Let’s go to the tape and take a detailed look at the traits and attributes of Rashawn Slater, Professional Left Tackle.