Poles best/worst decisions in the offseason (Bearstalk)

LOL. I don’t see much chance of him turning out like Leatherwood, unless the Seahawks GM/head coach have their heads in the sand up to their elbows. They beat Poles in the draft last year, and probably again this year. The Raiders figured out almost immediately that Leatherwood is a dog.

Actually, the part of Oluwatimi's resumé that I found most interesting isn't that he was an Outland Trophy winner but that he was a Rimington Trophy winner (best center in CFB).  Winning the Rimland award typically indicates a successful NFL career.

I didn't do a lot of research on the draft, so I didn't know anything about him.  All of the stuff below came from recent research.

Most/all of the Rimington Trophy winners are drafted, and many are drafted very highly. And most end up as regular starters in the NFL.  I didn't look at all of the Rimington winners, just over the last decade or so.  About half were taken in the first round.  And all but three of the most recent Rimington winners were taken no lower than the 3rd round.  In 2013 Bryan Stork was taken with the 105th pick (Round 4 Pick 5) by New England.  In 2015, Reese Dismukes was signed by the Steelers as an UDFA. He was the only recent Rimington winner who was undrafted.  And Oluwatimi who was taken at pick 154 (Round 5 Pick 19).

None of this means that Oluwatimi will or will not have a decent NFL career.  Just that some research into these things is better than (as JABF likes to say) is better than watching paint dry (or is it paint peel??).

Mafe is a LB, not a DE. He had 3 sacks. Brisker had 4.
walker, Cross, Lucas, Woolen. No hype — all solid starters.

Take Cross out of it. Seahawks drafted right after Poles in 2022. Anybody (except maybe you) would trade the Bears 2022 draft for the Seahawks draft in about 10 seconds. No hype.   CBS sports ranked the 2022 team drafts. Seahawks were #2.