Late-Round Prospect: Quandarrius “Que” Robinson
“You can understand why he’s a little under the radar because this is his first year as a full-time starter,” explained Sikkema. “Now you go, all right, well hold on here, fifth-year guy, first year starter…he’s a former four-star recruit. He just had to sit behind Chris Braswell, Will Anderson, Dallas Turner for two years, and then he finally got his chance to get in there this year and he ended up having a forearm and an elbow injury where I think he only played about seven or eight games.
“Within those seven or eight games, very similar numbers to that of like a Braden Swinson where that pass-rush win percentage was all the way up in the 20s…he’s got good length to him, good height to him. He’s more slender, so he’s not as good of a run defender as say those guys that I already mentioned in Erocco and Swinson.
“But as a late round guy, when you talk about day 3 players, we’re really talking about guys that are just gonna be specialized. They’re sort of gonna be streamlined and for “Que” Robinson, passing down, it’s a situation where you go, OK, obvious passing down situations if you know Clowney is a little bit tired or if Patrick Jones is a little bit tired, if you have a different edge-rusher, they’re a little bit tired, you could put this guy in as a stand-up outside linebacker.
“Again, his natural position of what he played in that 3-4 front at Alabama, and you could feel good about him disrupting the pocket. So the technique still needs a little bit of work. He’s still green in terms of that pass rush plan and that anticipation, but a very physically and athletically gifted football player that you take a chance on if you got the opportunity to on day three.”
Robinson picked up 23 tackles and 4.0 sacks in his final season.