Shemar Stewart a Safe Pick for Cincinnati Bengals According to Chris Simms
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00:00Yeah, I think that the safe part is so interesting because on draft night, almost everyone was like, well, this is a big roll of the dice.
00:08This is a big gamble.
00:09But to your point, he has a high floor because he's a smart kid.
00:13He's going to work hard.
00:14I met him already and chatted with him.
00:16Exactly right.
00:16Right.
00:17And all the physical traits.
00:18I mean, what's the worst that could happen, that he's a productive starter for a decade?
00:22Yeah, exactly.
00:23That's where you look at it.
00:24And near here is a team that we know in Cincinnati that needs someone that can start and play right away in a division where there's some big offensive linemen and people that move people around.
00:35And you got, I don't know, a quarterback in that division who can really run and move as far as Lamar Jackson's concerned.
00:41So you got to worry about him and have a plan for that.
00:44So, yeah, I love all of that stuff.
00:46And then I think on top of that, too, we talked about a little bit of the rawness and all that.
00:52The game is going to be simpler for him in the NFL.
00:55And that's where I think people miss it, too.
00:57A little bit like Will Anderson a few years ago when he came out of Alabama, I was a little like, wait, I don't love this tape.
01:05All right.
01:06And I think the thing where I messed up in evaluating him and where I took that into account this time with Shamar Stewart is the fact of he had to do things and was asked to do things.
01:18At Texas A&M that Al Golden and the Bengals are not going to ask him to do.
01:23He was asked sometimes to line up, head up on the tackle and two gap, sometimes just barely get on the edge.
01:28He played nose tackle because he was such a freak of nature.
01:32And they went, wait, he can do it.
01:34And this will let us get some other good guys on the field that can't do that, but we can move them outside.
01:39So he had the ability to do that.
01:40But now the life is going to be simplified in the fact of, hey, just line up outside, get wide.
01:47And we're not asking you to do a whole lot here other than pin your ears back and just go this way after the quarterback.
01:54And I think with that simplification of how he plays and what he does, yeah, I think the NFL is made for a guy like this.