DABR’s Olu Fashanu Scouting Report

People seemingly liked the QB reports, but especially as we kind of refocus with the #6 pick and expecting the top 3 QBs to be gone by then, attention will start to turn to other options.

I’m planning to post reports for a bunch of these top options over the next couple of months, even diving into some of the corners and EDGE players to see if anybody really gets me going. Not sure when they’ll all happen, and I don’t want to post them all at once or anything. But saying it out loud will help keep me honest and make me actually do it. 🙂

Since I’m focused right now on finishing my annual OT and IOL positional rankings, I figured I would start with Penn State’s Olu Fashanu.

I know a lot of people are now staunchly *against* taking an OT early on in the draft, but for me, if a guy is as special as I think Fashanu is, I’m not going to have a problem with it.

And I know a lot of people are going to talk about “I can’t believe we’re going to take another LT and try to move him to RT” but you guys are forgetting that’s a big reason why a lot of you liked Evan Neal in the first place, because he had RT experience. And now you parrot that “he’s struggling because he was a LT in college” stuff like it’s impossible to move guys over, like Penei Sewell didn’t move over from LT to RT for the Lions, or like Paris Johnson Jr didn’t just have a solid rookie year after moving from LT to RT.

Personally, I’m not going to let the regime’s previous mistakes and failures to develop offensive linemen prevent me from taking someone I think is a blue chip prospect.

That all said, I have yet to do full film reviews on basically every other non-QB option at 6, just what I’ve seen watching CFB and cutting the games up. But those guys have to really wow me to knock Fashanu off the top spot of my wishlist.

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14BmOp0XjPLBNuh8zAsgCap16tOzDAVtXggp5QxSlKVY/edit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14BmOp0XjPLBNuh8zAsgCap16tOzDAVtXggp5QxSlKVY/edit)