Damn, you guys are really drinking the Kool-Aid. Sheesh.

Let me tell you as a guy who watches a lot of Big Ten football. This guy was anonymous despite playing at one of the loudest, most public-facing teams in the conference. To call him a passenger would be a hilarious understatement. He’s not good.

He has elite athletic traits and he was drafted to compete for the starting role.

This is the kind of shit that absolutely fucking pisses me off about people who defend this pick. The only fucking thing you 86ers have to defend this pick is this stupid, arbitrary RAS number. However, I’ll play along-

• Since we have clearly established that this is something y’all care about more than actual in-game performance, production, or injury histories, I’ll take this opportunity to point out that our very own Jake Ferguson had a RAS below 7 and is somehow a vastly superior player and was as a prospect AND went in the 4th round instead #58 overall. He was a better player in college despite this so-called limited athletic ability and they threw a damn Top-60 pick on a guy who was a lesser player despite all those supposed built-in athletic advantages and better players he had supporting him.

It’s almost like the actual ability to play the game matters and that being a damn athletic freak at this position doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. 86’s RAS score puts him firmly in between Rob Housler and Dan Campbell as prospects- guys who were never anything more than #2 TEs at best in their entire careers. James Hanna had a 9.9 athletic score and fuck-all in his career to show for it. He wasn’t a hugely productive player in college either and that athletic ability didn’t translate to the NFL either. Who does that remind me of…?

Tl;DR - Athletic ability isn’t the benchmark the NFL thinks it is at TE because it is a hard-ass position to play that requires more than athletic ability to be successful at, and that Luke Schoonmaker lacks. Sorry to burst your bubble. I don’t care what he was drafted for- his selection was a mistake and he was no better than 5th or a 6th round pick at best in my eyes. And yes, I was totally fine with rolling with Ferguson as the #1 for this year and waiting to see what happened. I didn’t need data point that to justify not taking an injury prone college bum with zero production at 58 overall, because his red flags were sufficiently obvious.