NFL Draft Would you take a modern-day Art Still with the #3 pick?

**cdcox** · 02-08-2009, 11:20 AM

So would you take a guy guaranteed to have an equivalent career as Art Still with the 3rd overall pick of the draft, over whoever you favor now?

For those of you that didn't see him play, he was a LDE with 48.5 career sacks, not including his first 4 years, when the NFL was not recording sacks. Considering that sacks were not counted during his best year of 1980, I think he probably had around 75 career sacks. He went to 4 pro-bowls and in 1980 he was named to several all-conference and all-NFL teams. Of the years where his sacks were recorded he had 14.5 in 1984 and 10.5 in 1986, with 4 to 6 sacks in the other years. But his real strength was in the running game. He anchored the left side of the line against the run for a decade. He was probably one of the best run defenders at DE that I've ever seen. He had the ability to hold his ground and slip off the block just at the right moment to pull down the RB for little or no gain. Surrounding talent around him was bad at the beginning of his career but got better when Bill Mass came.

If you draft Stills, he will be exactly the kind of player he was when he played: no better or no worse. Do you take him over whomever you currently like in this draft?

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02-08-2009, 11:20 AM	Topic Starter
cdcox www.nfl-forecast.com Join Date: Sep 2000 Casino cash: $-568231	Would you take a modern-day Art Still with the #3 pick? So would you take a guy guaranteed to have an equivalent career as Art Still with the 3rd overall pick of the draft, over whoever you favor now? For those of you that didn't see him play, he was a LDE with 48.5 career sacks, not including his first 4 years, when the NFL was not recording sacks. Considering that sacks were not counted during his best year of 1980, I think he probably had around 75 career sacks. He went to 4 pro-bowls and in 1980 he was named to several all-conference and all-NFL teams. Of the years where his sacks were recorded he had 14.5 in 1984 and 10.5 in 1986, with 4 to 6 sacks in the other years. But his real strength was in the running game. He anchored the left side of the line against the run for a decade. He was probably one of the best run defenders at DE that I've ever seen. He had the ability to hold his ground and slip off the block just at the right moment to pull down the RB for little or no gain. Surrounding talent around him was bad at the beginning of his career but got better when Bill Mass came. If you draft Stills, he will be exactly the kind of player he was when he played: no better or no worse. Do you take him over whomever you currently like in this draft?
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