DeForest Buckner Could Be the 2016 NFL Draft’s Most Complete Defender

April 24, 2016   ·   Sean Tomlinson   ·   Jump to comments

There’s an annual game we play in April as the days crawl by prior to the NFL draft. It starts off as a brain teaser and can end in torture.

We ask ourselves what the perfect prospect would look like at position X if we could assemble a football Frankenstein, plucking physical attributes or skills from multiple sources and then bringing them together to form one superhuman force. At quarterback, for example, maybe we would put Cam Newton’s legs with Aaron Rogers’ accuracy and Peyton Manning’s intelligence.
But at one position in the 2016 draft, we may not need to spend hours in our evil football lair, sewing different parts together. Conveniently, defensive end DeForest Buckner already comes fully assembled.
Just ask a coach who’s quite familiar with the chaos Buckner unleashed during his time with the Oregon Ducks.
"If you're building a defensive lineman, that's what you build,” said Stanford head coach David Shaw, via D...

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