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Is Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah’s NFL draft stock slipping?
Or is it simply one NFL draft expert seeing things differently than others?
USA TODAY’s Nate Davis released his latest mock draft this week, and it had Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah going significantly later than we’ve seen several others have the star Notre Dame linebacker being taken.
Davis had Owusu-Koramoah going 30th overall to the Buffalo Bills, barely sneaking into the first round.
Here is what Davis had to say about Owusu-Koramoah:
30. Buffalo Bills – Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, LB, Notre Dame:
The Butkus Award winner as the country’s top college linebacker and ACC defensive player of the year in 2020, he’s a rangy type who could fill a number of roles as an every-down hybrid for this defense. Owusu-Koramoah will probably have to bulk up his 220-pound build, but he could be a great fit for a team that may not bring LB Matt Milano back.
Owusu-Koramoah lacking the perfect size of an outside linebacker certainly doesn’t help his case in the eyes of scouts, something Davis alludes to here.
If he were to fall to 30th overall though, I’d imagine it being a case of a draft being done by a spreadsheet formula instead of watching a player’s actual skill, and that the Buffalo Bills would get a steal that late in the first round.
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