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Bo was never playing again, he had complete hip replacement. He suffered from AVN, avascular necrosis, the death of bone tissue because of a lack of blood supply. Tua has benefited from two things, they treated the injury fast enough so that AVN didn’t set in and has 28 years of health advancement at his disposal.

That said, I’m not sure I’d take him top 5. Still a serious injury. If the injury scares teams off that he drops all the way to 49, hell yeah I’d roll the dice if I’m the Steelers. He’ll never drop that far though, if he’s still there when NE picks, they’ll take him.

 

Trading our 2nd and next year’s 1st could get us to the lower mid 1st round range this year. If our medical people cleared him (and it’s a BIG if), I’d do that all day. From what I’ve read, he checked out well medically at the combine. I think it’s all moot. I expect him to be gone by pick 15 anyway.

 

Man that would piss Ben off in a major way

I think the hip is going to be ok, from what I have read, it was a fluke injury, just was landed on the right way after his knee planted in the ground and the defenders weight bearing down on him.

If he stays healthy, someone is getting a franchise QB and I’m really hoping it’s not NE. That would suck and you know they’d be lucky enough that the guy would never miss a game in his career

 

They’re probably the “source” of the rumors of him being taken off of some teams’ draft boards.

 

I just did this one on the Fanspeak simulator:

49: R2P17
S GRANT DELPIT LSU

102: R3P38
RB CAM AKERS FSU

124: R4P18
DL DAVON HAMILTON OHIO STATE

135: R4P29
G CALVIN THROCKMORTON OREGON

198: R6P19
WR JAUAN JENNINGS TENNESSEE

232: R7P18
LB SHAUN BRADLEY TEMPLE

 

I don’t know anything about Throckmorton and Bradley but that would be a damn fine draft.

 

Yeah, I only know the first 3 guys. After that all I know about them are how PFF and a few other sites rank them. I did watch a bunch of Akers' games early this AM, and he is really growing on me. He's a college RB who actually tries hard in pass protection (imagine that!). You really have to project how well he'll handle RB duties because the blocking in front of him was terrible, but when he did have a crease he made the most of it. Hamilton is a borderline elite run stuffer. He's not going to be able to impact the pass game like Hargrave did, but he would be a very capable day 1 starter at the nose in our base defense (bye bye Big Dan). Delpit was elite in 2018. He took a step back in 2019, but the talent is there big time.

 

Another one from Fanspeak. In this one I had a few guys targeted for pick 102, when it got down to only 1 of them being available (Akers) I pulled the trigger and traded up to 93 (giving up our 6th).

49: R2P17
WR MICHAEL PITTMAN JR. USC

93: R3P29
RB CAM AKERS FSU

124: R4P18
S TERRELL BURGESS UTAH

135: R4P29
G MICHAEL ONWENU MICHIGAN

232: R7P18
EDGE TREVIS GIPSON TULSA

 

Thats pretty good, too.

 

Another one from Fanspeak. I traded down twice on the 2nd and then up once on the 3rd, for a net gain of a 4th round pick. I really like this one, and kind of expect nearly everyone listed to be picked earlier than I got them:

58: R2P26
EDGE JULIAN OKWARA NOTRE DAME

85: R3P21
RB CAM AKERS FLORIDA STATE

124: R4P18
LB TROY DYE OREGON

127: R4P21
DL DAVON HAMILTON OHIO STATE

132: R4P26
G JONAH JACKSON OHIO STATE

198: R6P19
S K'VON WALLACE CLEMSON

232: R7P18
WR AUSTIN MACK OHIO STATE

 

Yeah... It seems kind of unrealistic doesn’t it?