NFL Community’s Lance Zierlein launched his first mock draft on Monday and in it, he has three quarterbacks going off the board over the primary 5 picks.
North Carolina’s Drake Maye slips to the Atlanta Falcons at No. 5 total, simply outdoors the attain of the New York Giants.
With the highest three gun-slingers gone by the point they choose, Zierlein has the Giants touchdown Oregon State offensive lineman Taliese Fuaga with the sixth total choose.
Fuaga is among the best move protectors within the draft and a few see him as a guard/sort out. He provides the Giants flexibility with the place they’ll play Evan Neal.
As Zierlein notes, most see Fuaga as extra of a guard however the NFL analyst believes he might nonetheless develop into a top quality proper sort out on the NFL stage.
Beefy proper sort out able to enjoying at a excessive stage regardless of his lack of preferrred pad stage and lower-body bend. Fuaga performs with a reasonably aggressive disposition. He’s a one-pop blocker who struggles to clinch into his run blocks and is due to this fact pressured to work time beyond regulation to maintain and end. The move safety approach is excellent, and he possesses the athleticism to reflect and match edge-to-edge rush actions. Fuaga’s hand work is outstanding in move professional and might want to stay so, due to his lack of desired vary for recovering when crushed. A workforce might slide him to protect to enhance its inside safety, however he’s best-suited at proper sort out, the place he ought to develop into an excellent starter.
Giants normal supervisor Joe Schoen wants greater than a flexible offensive line challenge at No. 6 total. And if Fuaga is best suited inside at guard, he’s not price of such a excessive choose.