In order, Keegan, Harrison, Hill
My view of each of the pieces in play:
Keegan isn’t the ultra-rare athlete that Harrison is, nor even the exceptional athlete that Hill is, but he’s as athletic as any OT we have (Mayfield) and joins a team with very few true OTs on the roster. He’s also a pretty complete player who has the size and technique to compete for early PT Say what you like about safety, but we have one more year of Runyon and then it’s Steuber, Mayfield, Ryan Hayes and this year’s freshman (of which he’s the best shot at being an early contributor at OT).
Harrison slots in with Hutch, Hinton (headed inside IMO, but an SDE if needed) and a handful of guys who could prove solid at SDE. He’s also going to need to add a fair bit of bulk before he’s ready to take on the OT/TE double teams that are headed his way. Might need a year before he’s pushing the starter, but a monster in the making
Hill is not IMO the truly explosive athlete that Jabrill was, but he looks more instinctive as a DB. There’s the temptation to believe that he’ll be the ball hawk safety we need to make the game changing INT, but I’m not sure that anyone does that in Don Brown’s scheme. He certainly helps prevent the awful man coverage mismatch that tOSU exploited, but we probably shouldn’t expect more than that
So....
Priorities?
My view of each of the pieces in play:
Keegan isn’t the ultra-rare athlete that Harrison is, nor even the exceptional athlete that Hill is, but he’s as athletic as any OT we have (Mayfield) and joins a team with very few true OTs on the roster. He’s also a pretty complete player who has the size and technique to compete for early PT Say what you like about safety, but we have one more year of Runyon and then it’s Steuber, Mayfield, Ryan Hayes and this year’s freshman (of which he’s the best shot at being an early contributor at OT).
Harrison slots in with Hutch, Hinton (headed inside IMO, but an SDE if needed) and a handful of guys who could prove solid at SDE. He’s also going to need to add a fair bit of bulk before he’s ready to take on the OT/TE double teams that are headed his way. Might need a year before he’s pushing the starter, but a monster in the making
Hill is not IMO the truly explosive athlete that Jabrill was, but he looks more instinctive as a DB. There’s the temptation to believe that he’ll be the ball hawk safety we need to make the game changing INT, but I’m not sure that anyone does that in Don Brown’s scheme. He certainly helps prevent the awful man coverage mismatch that tOSU exploited, but we probably shouldn’t expect more than that
So....
Priorities?
