Pro Football Focus no fan of Raiders CB Damon Arnette pick

Pro Football Focus no fan of Raiders CB Damon Arnette pick

Count Pro Football Focus among those who are skeptical of the Raiders taking Ohio State CB Damon Arnette at pick 19. Their draft guy Mike Renner put the Arnette pick as his second least favorite pick of day one.

Arnette does not in any way, shape or form fit the normal profile for a first-round cornerback. He’s slow (4.56-second 40-yard time) and old (turns 24 in September) with below-average ball production (22 picks plus pass-breakups in three years as a starter) and poor length (30-inch arms). That would be a lot of strikes for a guy even if his play was elite, but Arnette earned only a 74.9 coverage grade for Ohio State last season. He was the 11th-best cornerback available on our board at the time he was picked.

The selection of Ruggs was not listed either among the favorite or least favorites.

As with anything with PFF, there’s always a tweet. They take the moments after the pick to tweet out whatever positive things they can find, and put out these two beauts which might cause you to think they love the guy.

They’re certainly not alone in giving this pick the side-eye. There wasn’t a draft board out there that had Arnette in the top 50, let alone the top 20. DraftWire also put the pick among their worst picks.

Raiders fans will say time will tell and they’re right. It will. Arnette could prove to be a talented player. But PFF has a point that his 40 time and age are both concerning, at least concerning enough to figure he would have been available much later than the Raiders took him.

Then again, PFF’s staff mock draft had the Raiders taking Kristian Fulton at 12 and Grant Delpit at 19 — both of whom are still on the board heading into day two — and not taking a wide receiver AT ALL in the draft. So, take that for what it’s worth.

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