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If gaither is on the board


Kazkal

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Not sure but don't think he can enter. But when he does there's only 1 spot for him -- LT and you're talking a high 1st rounder. He'll go back there after Stephon Heyer leaves and Heyer looks like he's recovered real well from his knee injury. He kicks out upfield on screens about as quick as any LT I've seen this year and has great balance and feet on his lateral slide while he's engaged with a defender. Probably 3rd or 4th round LT.

There's been a couple other RTs though that I've wondered if they couldn't swing DT in the NFL -- Brandon Cox Louisiana Lafayette and Wesley Jones of Marshall. But can't say I've seen a T who looks like a DE this year.

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If he can enter and does, he should go real high. Really can't see a team taking Joe Thomas or Sam Baker over this guy. He's a Collosus.

Another possible early entry at LT would be Barry Richardson. I noticed some problems keeping up with the quicks of an undersized DE like Noland Burchette of Va Tech but Richardson should be a solid late 1st round LT prspect if he enters.

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Watched some of Miami-Maryland between other games last night and noticed Gaither had his hands full with Baraka Atkins. I've watched Gaither several times and he usually bats around DEs like they are toys...but he had to work with Atkins and couldn't really stop Atkins from dictating where he wanted to go on the plays I saw. The only other thing I had seen that raises a question about Gaither was his tendency to let smaller, quicker DEs get underneath him and past him but it looked like he was compensating by getting extremely low in his stance to start the snap with better leverage low. Probably not the best thing to do with a big-framed bullrusher like Baraka.

Still, if Gaither does enter early, he'll definitely go high.

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