The lack of overlap in technique from the college game to the pros is becoming an increasingly common issue for scouts and evaluators, making a position thats traditionally been considered a relatively safe bet much trickier to hit on in the draft. Sometimes you go through 80 plays [on a college tape] and only eight of them are truly gradable, where theyre at the point of contact and theyre actually doing something youre going to ask them to do, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said at the combine in February.
A lot of the [spread offense] offensive linemen, theyre not necessarily asked to run off the ball, and [set] a guy up, and try to move [a big defensive end] three yards down the field, Titans general manager Jon Robinson said in 2016. Theyre kind of asked to just zone and occupy, and let the backs cut off the blocks. So you really have to dig through those plays where you can really see him unroll his hips, and dig his cleats in, and really get moving.
