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Heh, RamView is a big fan of the Zig, though if the Jagwires do pull the trigger and draft him #2, it will be one of the riskiest picks in the history of the draft. There are times when Ansah completely disappears. Like all of Senior Bowl week, for instance. Leading up to the game in Mobile, you saw a guy who couldn't beat anybody off the line, showed no second move, couldn't get off a block, played way too high in every drill... I'd have said he'd be lucky to be a third-round pick.
Put Ansah in the game, though, and he turned into Jason Pierre-Paul. He took your breath away. He was in the QB's face constantly. He beat single-teams. He beat double-teams. He beat guys outside, he beat guys inside. He had a couple of sacks, a million pressures, blew up screen passes and even stopped the run. What was Ansah's play of the game? Was it when he went through a guard and a chip-blocker to sack Ryan Nassib and strip the ball out in the 4th? Or was it when he got off a good block by the tight end in space and stuffed Denard Robinson on an end-around? Robinson runs a 4.43, for heaven's sake! And Ansah tracked him down!
Ziggy Ansah is a freak. I have little qualm comparing him to Pierre-Paul for his impressive athleticism. At 6'5", 270, he ran every bit as fast at the Combine as Dion Jordan, who's a popular projection here, but one who gives up 25 pounds to Ansah. The Jagwires have needed a threat off the edge like Ansah ever since they stole St. Louis' expansion franchise and entered the league. The all-time Jagwire sacker is Tony Brackens, with 55 sacks. Ansah or Jordan could get there in 3-4 years.
The first thing new head coach Gus Bradley's defense in Jacksonville needs is, like he had in Seattle, a Chris Clemons, an up-the-field penetrator and pass-pocket disruptor. Ziggy Ansah does that better than anybody in this draft. And while he may be steak tartare, that's still a tasty dish, and Bradley is just the coach to refine Ansah into a player whose game is well-done.
Ha, I'm not going to write this long about either of the Rams' picks. Better pick up the pace.
The Raiders are on the clock!
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