Tennessee '53 Draft

An overall decent draft, but we'll need better if we want to build this team into a contender.

1-16 WR Isaac Micallef

+4/-1 | 0/-2 | 32/48
I joined after this pick was made and didn't really look at who was on the board at that point, but I think it was a reasonable pick given how his bars are distributed.  RR and GD survived the slight drop so I'm pretty happy with where he is.  Once his RR matures into its potential he should make for a good YAC guy.  Unfortunately his EN means he probably won't be a high target one.

2-19 T Isaac Somers

+5/-1 | -1/-2 | 30/50

I think I joined about 2-3 picks before this one came up, so I scrambled a bit to get a list together for this pick (my process is still rough and very manual).  Saw took my initial target Petry the pick before so I pivoted to OT since I only had 1 on the roster.  Immediately I had some regrets over going with him over Morton, though it looks like I dodged a bullet there.  He doesn't really excel at anything, and he's been know to eat an eraser or two in his day, but in the eternal words... "The job is (his) until (he) dies or I find someone better"

3-18 G Riley Gilmore

+5/0 | -7/-10 | 26/58

Another big dumb here, but this one your prototypical road grading RG.  Looks like he took a slight vol hit (someone correct me if this was just bad scouting on my OC's part) but his RB bar remained >= 90 so should still be useful.

4-17 OLB Landon Barker

+5/-3 | -1/-4 | 29/45

A bit of a jack of all trades at the OLB position.  Should be a decent utility player, but nothing spectacular.  I was hoping to take a flyer on Hazeltine here but he ended up going a few picks before.

5-16 QB Lamont Nichols

+5/0 | +1/+5 | 13/51

Raw but I like his intangibles (except 3D).  Spent most of my interviews on other QBs and didn't like what I saw, took a second look at Nichols after I missed on Hazeltine a round before and figured I'd take a shot.  Really happy to see the bump he took TC2 and his AI looks really good (~75) plugging his potential numbers into Tzach's calculator (I'm assuming it works for potential the same as current).  Someone who isn't me could probably build a really good offense around this guy.

6-19 CB Keith O'Neal

+3/-5 | -1/-9 | 29/37

Static bars!?  We don't need no stinking static bars!!!  Well, apparently Mr. O'Neal does because he went down and hard.  I would feel worse about this if he wasn't a 6th round pick and I didn't have a (fairly) poor scouting DC.  Could be worse, he still has some coverage/RD/INT bars.

7-18 S Ben Huiz

+3/-5 | -1/-7 | 15/27

I really wasn't seeing much to choose from at this point so just sorted by ST and picked.  Would have been nice to get some kind of utility out of him, but that was not to be.