English: Kyler Murray immediately after winning his first football game as starting quarterback for the Texas A&M Aggies and defeating the South Carolina Gamecocks on October 31, 2015 Date 31 October 2015, 14:21:52 Source: Own work Author: ScottyMo1 (Wikipedia Commons)
This season’s draft class has promising talent sprinkled in throughout multiple teams. Which rookies will possibly bring the most potential to their team this upcoming season?
The league’s first overall pick has more potential than a lot of the picks in this season’s draft, and that’s partly due to the guys around him. New head coach Kliff Kingsbury seems to be the perfect fit for Kyler Murray’s play style of fast, unorthodox QB play that the rest of the NFL isn’t used to. Besides the coaching staff, Murray has returning Pro Bowl RB David Johnson on his side, as well as fourth-round pick WR Hakeem Butler from Iowa State. According to ESPN’s Matthew Berry, Butler has been working with retired WR Calvin Johnson this offseason, as the two have almost identical builds. Butler stands at 6-foot-6 and will be a considerable option for Murray to go up and get those 50/50 balls.
There might be a rebirth to “Sacksonville” as the seventh overall pick, LB Josh Allen from Kentucky, could be moving to DE for the Jags this season. Head coach Doug Marrone and his defensive staff said that they drafted Allen to be a defensive end, according to John Oehser of the official Jaguars website. The defense will also be shifting back into a 4-3, instead of the typical NFL 3-4 defenses.
Everyone was surprised to see Dwayne Haskins go 14th overall, as size-wise, he proved to be potentially the best traditional QB in the draft at 6-foot-3, 231 pounds. He has the arm and the commanding presence to lead a franchise, and Haskins proved that at Ohio State.
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