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OG?/C Gabe Ikard, Oklahoma -- Ikard definitely has the look of a draftee simply due to the fact that he is a legit power center for a power running scheme. There's not a whole lot of those going around, and Ikard plays every bit the part. He gets out of his snap pretty slow and he needs work making some of the line calls, but those are correctable issues. When lined up against a DL, he can drop anchor and stop any bullrush dead in its tracks. It's more difficult when he has to line up against quicker, shiftier undertackles -- Ikard has zero recovery ability due to his limited athleticism. He's not a real powerdriver of a runblocker, either, but he can effectively handle and negate about any nose tackle he faces in the run game, so long as he has them properly lined up. Ikard's technique, however, is excellent; he is a tall center (6'4", 304) who never gets his pads too high, with long arms that can hit DTs before they hit him. I'd definitely take a flyer on him in the late rounds if I ran the power scheme, because I think he could be even better at guard, where he could start out in pre-maul mode, rather than having to go through his slow transition from the snap.
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