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Originally Posted by Mecca

Gross-Matos is a pretty terrible fit here, do not like that pick.

I don't think he's a bad fit, I just think he may not be a good player.

He can add some weight and play at 275 in all likelihood. He has the length and probably the functional strength to play a 4-3 DE. But if he develops as you'd expect he profiles more as a LEO than an SDE.

He's a rich man's K-Pass. He has a longer development curve and a lot more bust potential. I wouldn't say fit is the issue - he can play here. But he'd need to change his body a bit and really change his mentality. You draft him in the 1st and you do so recognizing that year 1 is likely a red-shirt year. It wouldn't be the end of the world because we still have Okafor and K-Pass to rotate at SDE in 2020.

But there's a lot of bust potential there.

The guy I really hope someone falls in love with is Chaisson. That's a love-fest I just don't get. If he falls to 32 you almost have to take him because there's a lot of tools there but man I don't have to squint much at all to see Dee Ford 2.0 - a long, frustrating development process that shows flashes but just never works out quite like you'd hope. There's just a ton of 'implosion' potential there.

On the spectrum of 'solid w/ a high floor' to 'high variance and explosive w/ bust potential' you have Epenesa -- Gross-Matos -- Chaisson from one end to the other.