There are always grades, winners and losers of the NFL Draft even though no one knows those answers quite yet.
Then there is actual, real analysis of who has been selected and where.
The 2020 NFL Draft concluded on April 25. Plenty of opinions have been shared about who got drafted where, who fits better where, who was taken too high and who was taken too low.
Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer reached out to over a handful of anonymous NFL personnel to get their perspective on the 2020 NFL Draft. In there, Oklahoma’s Kenneth Murray and Neville Gallimore were among some of the most liked picks of the draft.
“Kenneth Murray,” said an anonymous NFC scout. “That salty defense gets a stud in the middle that will be there a long time. Joey Bosa, Melvin Ingram, Derwin James and now Murray? Sign me up.”
“Kenneth Murray was a great pick/fit for the Chargers,” said an anonymous NFC executive. “Although they needed OL, they went with best player on board and got a leader and someone who should be an impact player.”
“I thought Dallas’s Neville Gallimore in the third was a really good pick—we tried to get him,” said another anonymous NFC executive. “This guy, he’s raw, but to get an in-line rusher in the third round, that’s a really good get, especially when there were no edge guys available. It’s all upside with him. That was a guy that stuck out, that he was still available.”
The Los Angeles Chargers traded up to the 23rd pick in the 2020 NFL Draft in order to take Murray. He was a three-year starter—the first freshman to start at linebacker for the Sooners since 1975—from Oklahoma that started in every single game of his career. Murray was a two-year captain and became the cover boy for new defensive coordinator Alex Grinch’s ‘Speed D’.
The Dallas Cowboys were able to get a hold of Gallimore in the third round. His athleticism never matched his production at Oklahoma, but Grinch seemed to tap into something that the previous staff couldn’t with Gallimore in 2019 as his disruption and central focus for an offense was evident.
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