Originally posted by Heroism:Originally posted by Leathaface:The difference is Howell has 16 SEC sacks in the last 2 years. He's a pass rushing specialist most likely in a 4 man front but I think both he and the drafting team would be aware of that.
The problem with guys like this is they're eventually going to have to play base downs due to injuries. It's unavoidable and happens every year. When these tiny ends have to play base downs in this front, they're forced to give max effort on every rep to overcome their size and strength shortcomings. The wide 9 is inherently demanding on the ends because of the wide splits. Compound that with being undersized, and those players end up wearing down as the season goes on. See Bryce Huff, who had no juice by the later half of the year.
I haven't watched Howell, but I'm not sure the 49ers can afford to draft a DPR in the first-round unless it's someone absolutely disgusting. That player is going to play base downs given how things always go for them with injuries.
I'm with you Hero. Howell is not what we need. While Shanahan said we need more speed, I am almost certain he's talking about playmakers on offense more than anything. I'd say we do need a speed guy at LB though who is actually comparable to Warner. Dee is fast but still sucks at covering half the time. Just wildly inconsistent. Also FS. Brown should not be starting. Sigle I'll give him a chance to compete - he tackles well, but needs to clean up the coverage mistakes. I don't want to be too hard on him as a rookie, but I want to see real improvement - not continued suckage like we get from Jayir.
This team is still struggling to replace the great edge-setter at DE / big-time inside rusher on passing downs that we lost when AA left. And I haven't found anyone in this class like that yet. But plenty of 260-275 guys I think that could be options. Hopefully Mykel comes back strong.
I like what I see with this dude and the goods overwhelmingly outweigh the not goods, I wonder what rd he's projected at
