The NFL draft is less than two days away, and as teams make their final preparation, comparing prospects to players who have been successful in the league is an important tool for scouts as the attempt to sell their general managers on who a prospect might be in the league.
Touchdown Wire’s Doug Farrar used that as a guide and made player comparisons for his top-50 prospects of the 2022 class.
Two Aggies showed up on the list, Kenyon Green, and DeMarvin Leal, the latter Farrar comp’d to
There are two ways teams could use Leal as a rookie. A team could kick him inside and lean on him as a pure interior defender, and given what we have seen, that might be his best pathway to NFL success. Or teams can use him similar to how Texas A&M used him, relying on his versatility as a defender and aligning him anywhere from 0-techinque to the edge.
What’s that expression? The more you can do for a team, the more valuable you are? That might be what leads to Leal coming off the board earlier than we are seeing right now in mock drafts. He reminds me a lot of Trey Flowers, who was a stud with the Patriots, and got lost in the weeds with Lions coaching staffs who weren’t quite sure how to use him.
Trey Flowers has put together an impressive career in the league, if Leal can match that, the team that selects him will be thrilled with that outcome.
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