Chris Simms on Bengals First Round Pick Shemar Stewart
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00:00You were one of the biggest Shamar Stewart fans pre-draft.
00:04You had him number two on your list of edge rushers.
00:07What stands out the most when you watch him?
00:10Well, I think the first off is just he is a physical freak, right?
00:14And I look at him and go, this is one of the safest picks in the draft.
00:17That's the one thing I love.
00:18Let's just start there.
00:19It doesn't matter who he plays against, what team the Bengals are playing.
00:24You're not going to have to worry about Shamar Stewart going, oh, man, we might get overpowered this week
00:28or we got a real mismatch issue.
00:31I mean, his floor is like, oh, he's our starting defense end for the next five or six years,
00:36and he's a good player.
00:37So I like that aspect, let alone his ceiling is as high as anybody in the draft.
00:43He could be a superstar.
00:44He could be Miles Garrett.
00:45He could be one of the best pass rushers in football.
00:48So that's what I love about him.
00:50And, too, what he did at Texas A&M, and this is where I know we're all about the, oh,
00:57you only got one and a half sacks and all that.
00:59And I think you've seen some of the things I've said.
01:01Disruption is production, right?
01:03Well, I have a thing what I call on my podcast, F the play up.
01:06There's too many plays or too many great players in football who ruined the design of the play,
01:11and somebody gets the tackle, and I want to go, okay, great.
01:15He made the tackle.
01:16The star of the play is the guy who ruined everything.
01:18And sometimes that gets lost in translation a little bit with the fans because we're stat line readers.
01:24We just look at the bottom line and go, oh, he had a sack or he had a tackle.
01:28He must be really good.
01:30No.
01:31And so there is value in that.
01:33And I see him disrupt a ton of plays.
01:36So I love that.
01:37I love the physical ability.
01:38I love the size.
01:40He's never going to have an issue with anybody there.
01:42And then I also love the untapped potential.
01:46That's what's there, too.
01:47He's raw.
01:48He doesn't have any pass rush moves.
01:50He's going to learn that in a hurry in the NFL and go, damn, if I knew this in college,
01:55I would have got seven sacks last year.
01:58And that's what I love about it, too.
01:59So I think it's a very good pick by the Cincinnati Bengals, and I think it's getting a little too much
02:04a negative reaction, in my opinion.
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