Is Oregon DT Derrick Harmon a 'certified first round' pick?
Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald praise the strengths of Oregon DT Derrick Harmon, citing his versatility. Hear the full conversation on 'Football 301' - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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I'll start with Harman.
I like him.
I think he just does stuff.
He, he can line up across the defensive line.
I believe he is going to be a defensive tackle, a true 3 technique, deep type defensive tackle, but you can move him on the inside on, on rushdowns, you know, more inside, I should say.
You can put him on the outside.
He's really good on twists and games.
He keeps his feet.
I think, uh, again, I'm not particularly a 10 sack guy, but this is a guy to contribute pressures and some sacks and get you a handful of sacks, but I also think he's really good against the run.
Um, the guy that I ended up comparing him to.
I actually feel really good about this as time has gone on.
This is this high upside, so no one slip my throat for saying this, is, uh, Akeem Hicks, um, the old Bears defensive tackle, where I just think that his good play against the run while doing, contributing against the pass, you know, I think he could project to a two-gap defense where he has to hold up against his blocks, a gap shooting defense where he has to get up field.
Um, I think he's really good.
I already mentioned this, but the twists and slants and all those games and everything.
I, I just really like Harman.
I, I, this, this just think his skill set translates.
Like he just does a lot of things.
He gets the big explosive plays like TFLs and sacks, but also just does the in-between stuff, um, where he's not out of position and he's actually just contributing, holding his gap, doing his role real well.
Uh, I, I just, I, I think he's a high floor player with some ceiling to tap into, and I think he tested quite well.
So if you can't tell, I really like Derek Harman from Oregon, but Charles, you have him at 21.
Thoughts as well, or maybe some negatives if maybe throw some cold water on on maybe maybe my uh uh very, very high praise of Harbin.
Well, no, I, I, I see the reason why I was just thinking to myself I gotta move a little higher is because I kind of agree with all that.
I don't, I don't know, I don't, I don't, I don't really have any negatives.
I, I, I guess maybe the negative is.
Like he's not I don't, he's not like a Mason Graham level athlete, but more than good enough to hold his own.
And I think even to be productive pass rush in the NFL.
So, uh, well rounded guy, like high floor, high ceiling.
I, I, I, I, I don't really know why more people aren't talking about him.
Maybe that's just me not consuming as much draft stuff as I should be, but this is, this is a guy who I think is a certified first round defensive tackle.
Um, plays for a long time and helps you win against the run in the past.
Like he's a bigger like a heavy handed guy, but he moves well.
He's got some pass rush moves, he's got some juice.
I don't really see too many holes in this game that would make you afraid of taking him in the top 20 or maybe even a little higher than that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I, I feel like it's safe.
Like I, like I said, I have 14, but I, top 20 it feels like this player all the way.
I, I, I just think he, he's just one of these guys that's scheme proof to me.
Like it's just like, no matter what you're gonna ask him to do, he's going to be able to contribute to what you're doing.
So I just like players like that.
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Wednesday At Hayward Field Eugene, Ore. All race distances in meters Final Men's 10,000 - 1, Ishmael Kipkurui, New Mexico, 29:07.70 seconds. 2, Habtom Samuel, New Mexico, 29:08.73. 3, Ernest Cheruiyot, Texas Tech, 29:10.37. 4, Rodgers Kiplimo, Iowa St., 29:10.89. 5, Evans Kurui, Washington St., 29:10.91. 6, David Mullarkey, Northern Arizona, 29:11.05. 7, Dylan Schubert, Furman, 29:11.18. 8, Creed Thompson, BYU, 29:11.44. 9, Denis Kipngetich, Oklahoma St., 29:11.50. 10, Ben Rosa, Harvard, 29:12.19. 11, Dismus Lokira, Alabama, 29:13.51. 12, Cole Sprout, Stanford, 29:18.13. Murphy Smith, Navy, 29:18.39. 14, Joey Nokes, BYU, 29:19.76. 15, Ethan Coleman, Notre Dame, 29:22.01. 16, William Zegarski, Butler, 29.22.91. 17, Dylan Throop, Penn, 29:24.03. 18, Bernard Cheruiyot, Tulane, 29:24.80. 19, Timothy Chesondin, Arkansas, 29:26.37. 20, Drew Bosley, Northern Arizona, 29:28.52. 21, Sam Lawler, Syracuse, 29:31.40. 22, Victor Kiprop, Alabama, 29:31.44. 23, Shane Brosnan, Harvard, 29:33.81. DNF, Dennis Kipruto, Alabama. Long Jump - 1, Malcolm Clemons, Florida, 8.04m. 2, Blair Anderson, Oklahoma St., 8.02m. 3, Henry Kiner, Arkansas, 7.96m. 4, Charles Godfred, Minnesota, 7.91m. 5, Lokesh Sathyanathan, Tarleton St., 7.83m. 6, Tyson Adams, NC State, 7.81m. 7, Greg Foster, Princeton, 7.80m. 8, Jayden Keys, Georgia, 7.80m. 9, Uroy Ryan, Arkansas, 7.77m. 10, Tye Hunt, Youngstown St., 7.77m. 11, Chrstyn John Stevenson, Southern Cal, 7.75m. 12, De'Aundre Ward, Southern Miss, 7.73m. 13, Reinaldo Rodrigues, Arizona,7.69m. 14, Chris Preddie, Texas St. 7.62m. 15, Roy Morris, Northwestern St., 7.51m. 16, Anthony Riley, Oklahoma, 7.46m. 17, Micah Larry, Georgia, 7.46m. 18, Juriad Hughes, Arkansas, 7.41m. 19, DJ Fillmore, Ohio St., 7.40m. 20, Curtis Williams, Florida St., 7.18m. 21, Louis Gordon, Albany, 7.13m. DNF, Josh Parrish, Wichita St. Safin Wills, Oregon. Channing Ferguson, South Carolina. Pole Vault - 1, Aleksandr Colovev, Texas A&M, 5.78m. 2, Ashton Barkdull, Kansas, 5.73m. 3, Bradley Jelmert, Arkansas St., 5.63m. 4, Benjamin Conacher, Virginia Tech, 5.58m. 5, Simen Guttormsen, Duke, 5.53m. 5, Bryce Barkdull, Kansas, 5.53m. 7, Cody Johnston, Illinois, 5.53m. 7, Kevin O'Sullivan, Rutgers, 5.53m. 9, William Staggs, Indiana St. 5.53m. 10, Cade Gray, Tennessee, 5.43m. 11, Scott Toney, Washington, 5.43m. 12, Jak Urlacher, Minnesota, 5.43m. 13, Logan Hammer, Utah St., 5.33m. 13, Nico Morales, Rutgers, 5.33m. 13, Evan Puckett, Tennessee, 5.33m. 13, John Kendricks, Mississippi, 5.33m. 17, Logan Kelley, Mississippi, 5.33m. 18, Sean Gribble, Texas Tech, 5.33m. 18, Tre Young, South Dakota, 5.33m. 20, Arnie Grunert, Western Illinois, 5.18m. 21, Nikolai Van Huyssteen, Georgia, 5.18m. NH, Hunter Garretson, Akron, Colton Rhodes, Oklahoma, Ricardo Montes De Oca, High Point. Hammer - 1, Kostas Zaltos, Minnesota, 78.08m. 2, Angelos Mantzouranis, Minnesota, 76.96m. 3, Triak Robinson-O'Hagan, Mississippi, 76.78m. 4, Texas Tanner, Air Force, 75.22m. 5, Rory Devaney, Cal Poly, 74.16m. 6, Ryan Johnson, Iowa, 71.91m. 7, Daniel Reynold, Wyoming, 69.68m. 8, Christian Toro, Duke, 68.94m. 9, Kyle Brown, Auburn, 68.91m. 10, Travis Martin, Cal Poly, 68.31m. 11, Sean Smith, Iowa, 67.81m. 12, Jake Dalton, Mississippi, 67.79. 13, Bryson Smith, Mississippi, 67.79m. 14, Kyle Moison, Auburn 66.84m. 15, Keyandre Davis, Virginia, 66.24m. 16, Cole Hooper, Wisconsin, 65.98m. 17, Igor Olaru, Baylor, 65.96m. 18, Alex Bernstein, DePaul, 65.69m. 19, Noa Isaia, Arkansas St., 65.08m. 20, Orry Willems, Cincinnati, 64.81m. 21, Sean Mockler, Indiana, 64.07m. 22, Mason Hickel, Mississippi, 63.71m. 23, Alex Kristeller, Manhattan, 61.07m. 24, Kellen Kimes, Liberty, 60.67m. Shot Put- 1, Jason Swarens, Wisconsin, 21.23m. 2, Thomas Kitchell, North Carolina, 20.74m. 3, Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, Mississippi, 20.41m. 4, Kobe Lawrence, Oregon, 20.32m, 5, Christopher Licata, South Carolina, 20.15m. 6, Danny Bryant, BYU, 19.71m. 7, Dylan Targgart, South Carolina, 19.48m. 8, Fred Moudani Likibi, Cincinnati, 19.44m. 9, Joseph White, Wisconsin, 19.30m. 10, Zach Landa, Arizona, 19.05m. 11, Bryce Foster, Kansas, 18.96m. 12, Christopher Crawford, Alabama, 18.94m. 13, Joe Licata, Princeton, 19.93m. 14, Trevor Gunzell, Alabama, 18.91m. 15, Alexander Kolesnikoff, Georgia, 18.75m. 16, Jacob Cookinham, Kansas, 18.70m. 17, Obiora Okeke, Columbia, 18.65m. 18, Cam Jones, Iowa St., 18.62m. 19, Maxwell Otterdahl, Nebraska, 18.55m. 20, Joshua Huisman, Michigan, 18.33m. 21, Tucker Smith, Oklahoma, 18.26m. 22, Daniel Reynolds, Wyoming, 17.82m. DNF, Sascha Smith, Memphis. David Wilson, Texas Tech. Javelin - 1, Devoux Deysel, Miami, 81.75m. 2, Leikel Cabrera Gay, Florida, 79.05m. 3, Callan Saldutto, Missouri, 76.88m. 4, Moustafa Alsherif, Georgia, 76.69m. 5, Keyshawn Strachan, Nebraska, 76.44m. 6, Mike Stein, Iowa, 75.77m. 7, Arthur Petersen, Nebraska, 75.50m. 8, James Kotowski, UMass Lowell, 75.18m. 9, Colin Winkler, Central Connecticut, 74.97m. Remi Rougetet, Mississippi St., 73.30m. 11, Riley Marx, Kansas St., 70.71m. 12, Liam Miksic, UC Irvine, 70.13m. 13, Ryan Rieckmann, Cincinnati, 69.59m. 14, Dash Sirmon, Nebraska, 69.17m. 15, Trevor Hook, Northern Arizona, 67.84m. 16, Jack Greaves, Rice, 67.38m. 17, Tuomas Narhi, Mississippi St., 65.81m. 18, Gabriel Koletsi, Memphis, 65.69m. 19, Jesse Avina, Arizona, 64.49m. 20, Preston Kuznof, TCU, 64.62m. 21, Roddy Schenk, Tennessee, 62.84m. 22, Steven Coponi, Rutgers, 62.82m. 23, Kevin Burr, Tennessee, 61.62m. 24, Sam Roller, North Dakota St., 60.58m. Decathlon- (points after 5 events) 1, Peyton Bair, Mississippi St. 4,479. 2, Brad Thomas, UC Santa Barbara, 4,192. 3, Ben Barton, BYU, 4,190. 4, Colby Eddowes, Arkansas St., 4,112. 5, Marcus Weaver, Arkansas, 4,090. 6, Grant Levesque, Houston, 4,068. 7, Jaden Roskelley, BYU, 4,062. 8, Tayton Klein, Kansas, 4,051. 9, Kenneth Byrd, Louisville, 4,033. 10, Paul Kallenberg, Louisville, 4,023. 11, Cole Wilson, High Point, 3,988. 12, Andreas Hantson, Purdue, 3,992. 13, Diarmuid O'Connor, UConn, 3,946. 14, Ryan Gregory, Long Beach St., 3,920. 15, Alexander Jung, Kansas, 3,916. 16, Landon Helms,, Boise St., 3,898. 17, Emil Uhlin, Kansas St., 3,897. 18, Joshua Mooney, UConn, 3,788. 19, Nick Bianco, Colorado, 3,788. 20, Brayden Richards, Air Force, 3,788. 21, Till Steinforth, Nebraska, 3,330. DNF, Edgar Campre, Miami. Maxwell Forte, Duke. Abraham Vogelsang, Iowa. Wednesday At Hayward Field Eugene, Ore. All race distances in meters Final Men's 10,000 - 1, Ishmael Kipkurui, New Mexico, 29:07.70 seconds. 2, Habtom Samuel, New Mexico, 29:08.73. 3, Ernest Cheruiyot, Texas Tech, 29:10.37. 4, Rodgers Kiplimo, Iowa St., 29:10.89. 5, Evans Kurui, Washington St., 29:10.91. 6, David Mullarkey, Northern Arizona, 29:11.05. 7, Dylan Schubert, Furman, 29:11.18. 8, Creed Thompson, BYU, 29:11.44. 9, Denis Kipngetich, Oklahoma St., 29:11.50. 10, Ben Rosa, Harvard, 29:12.19. 11, Dismus Lokira, Alabama, 29:13.51. 12, Cole Sprout, Stanford, 29:18.13. Murphy Smith, Navy, 29:18.39. 14, Joey Nokes, BYU, 29:19.76. 15, Ethan Coleman, Notre Dame, 29:22.01. 16, William Zegarski, Butler, 29.22.91. 17, Dylan Throop, Penn, 29:24.03. 18, Bernard Cheruiyot, Tulane, 29:24.80. 19, Timothy Chesondin, Arkansas, 29:26.37. 20, Drew Bosley, Northern Arizona, 29:28.52. 21, Sam Lawler, Syracuse, 29:31.40. 22, Victor Kiprop, Alabama, 29:31.44. 23, Shane Brosnan, Harvard, 29:33.81. DNF, Dennis Kipruto, Alabama. Long Jump - 1, Malcolm Clemons, Florida, 8.04m. 2, Blair Anderson, Oklahoma St., 8.02m. 3, Henry Kiner, Arkansas, 7.96m. 4, Charles Godfred, Minnesota, 7.91m. 5, Lokesh Sathyanathan, Tarleton St., 7.83m. 6, Tyson Adams, NC State, 7.81m. 7, Greg Foster, Princeton, 7.80m. 8, Jayden Keys, Georgia, 7.80m. 9, Uroy Ryan, Arkansas, 7.77m. 10, Tye Hunt, Youngstown St., 7.77m. 11, Chrstyn John Stevenson, Southern Cal, 7.75m. 12, De'Aundre Ward, Southern Miss, 7.73m. 13, Reinaldo Rodrigues, Arizona,7.69m. 14, Chris Preddie, Texas St. 7.62m. 15, Roy Morris, Northwestern St., 7.51m. 16, Anthony Riley, Oklahoma, 7.46m. 17, Micah Larry, Georgia, 7.46m. 18, Juriad Hughes, Arkansas, 7.41m. 19, DJ Fillmore, Ohio St., 7.40m. 20, Curtis Williams, Florida St., 7.18m. 21, Louis Gordon, Albany, 7.13m. DNF, Josh Parrish, Wichita St. Safin Wills, Oregon. Channing Ferguson, South Carolina. Pole Vault - 1, Aleksandr Colovev, Texas A&M, 5.78m. 2, Ashton Barkdull, Kansas, 5.73m. 3, Bradley Jelmert, Arkansas St., 5.63m. 4, Benjamin Conacher, Virginia Tech, 5.58m. 5, Simen Guttormsen, Duke, 5.53m. 5, Bryce Barkdull, Kansas, 5.53m. 7, Cody Johnston, Illinois, 5.53m. 7, Kevin O'Sullivan, Rutgers, 5.53m. 9, William Staggs, Indiana St. 5.53m. 10, Cade Gray, Tennessee, 5.43m. 11, Scott Toney, Washington, 5.43m. 12, Jak Urlacher, Minnesota, 5.43m. 13, Logan Hammer, Utah St., 5.33m. 13, Nico Morales, Rutgers, 5.33m. 13, Evan Puckett, Tennessee, 5.33m. 13, John Kendricks, Mississippi, 5.33m. 17, Logan Kelley, Mississippi, 5.33m. 18, Sean Gribble, Texas Tech, 5.33m. 18, Tre Young, South Dakota, 5.33m. 20, Arnie Grunert, Western Illinois, 5.18m. 21, Nikolai Van Huyssteen, Georgia, 5.18m. NH, Hunter Garretson, Akron, Colton Rhodes, Oklahoma, Ricardo Montes De Oca, High Point. Hammer - 1, Kostas Zaltos, Minnesota, 78.08m. 2, Angelos Mantzouranis, Minnesota, 76.96m. 3, Triak Robinson-O'Hagan, Mississippi, 76.78m. 4, Texas Tanner, Air Force, 75.22m. 5, Rory Devaney, Cal Poly, 74.16m. 6, Ryan Johnson, Iowa, 71.91m. 7, Daniel Reynold, Wyoming, 69.68m. 8, Christian Toro, Duke, 68.94m. 9, Kyle Brown, Auburn, 68.91m. 10, Travis Martin, Cal Poly, 68.31m. 11, Sean Smith, Iowa, 67.81m. 12, Jake Dalton, Mississippi, 67.79. 13, Bryson Smith, Mississippi, 67.79m. 14, Kyle Moison, Auburn 66.84m. 15, Keyandre Davis, Virginia, 66.24m. 16, Cole Hooper, Wisconsin, 65.98m. 17, Igor Olaru, Baylor, 65.96m. 18, Alex Bernstein, DePaul, 65.69m. 19, Noa Isaia, Arkansas St., 65.08m. 20, Orry Willems, Cincinnati, 64.81m. 21, Sean Mockler, Indiana, 64.07m. 22, Mason Hickel, Mississippi, 63.71m. 23, Alex Kristeller, Manhattan, 61.07m. 24, Kellen Kimes, Liberty, 60.67m. Shot Put- 1, Jason Swarens, Wisconsin, 21.23m. 2, Thomas Kitchell, North Carolina, 20.74m. 3, Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, Mississippi, 20.41m. 4, Kobe Lawrence, Oregon, 20.32m, 5, Christopher Licata, South Carolina, 20.15m. 6, Danny Bryant, BYU, 19.71m. 7, Dylan Targgart, South Carolina, 19.48m. 8, Fred Moudani Likibi, Cincinnati, 19.44m. 9, Joseph White, Wisconsin, 19.30m. 10, Zach Landa, Arizona, 19.05m. 11, Bryce Foster, Kansas, 18.96m. 12, Christopher Crawford, Alabama, 18.94m. 13, Joe Licata, Princeton, 19.93m. 14, Trevor Gunzell, Alabama, 18.91m. 15, Alexander Kolesnikoff, Georgia, 18.75m. 16, Jacob Cookinham, Kansas, 18.70m. 17, Obiora Okeke, Columbia, 18.65m. 18, Cam Jones, Iowa St., 18.62m. 19, Maxwell Otterdahl, Nebraska, 18.55m. 20, Joshua Huisman, Michigan, 18.33m. 21, Tucker Smith, Oklahoma, 18.26m. 22, Daniel Reynolds, Wyoming, 17.82m. DNF, Sascha Smith, Memphis. David Wilson, Texas Tech. Javelin - 1, Devoux Deysel, Miami, 81.75m. 2, Leikel Cabrera Gay, Florida, 79.05m. 3, Callan Saldutto, Missouri, 76.88m. 4, Moustafa Alsherif, Georgia, 76.69m. 5, Keyshawn Strachan, Nebraska, 76.44m. 6, Mike Stein, Iowa, 75.77m. 7, Arthur Petersen, Nebraska, 75.50m. 8, James Kotowski, UMass Lowell, 75.18m. 9, Colin Winkler, Central Connecticut, 74.97m. Remi Rougetet, Mississippi St., 73.30m. 11, Riley Marx, Kansas St., 70.71m. 12, Liam Miksic, UC Irvine, 70.13m. 13, Ryan Rieckmann, Cincinnati, 69.59m. 14, Dash Sirmon, Nebraska, 69.17m. 15, Trevor Hook, Northern Arizona, 67.84m. 16, Jack Greaves, Rice, 67.38m. 17, Tuomas Narhi, Mississippi St., 65.81m. 18, Gabriel Koletsi, Memphis, 65.69m. 19, Jesse Avina, Arizona, 64.49m. 20, Preston Kuznof, TCU, 64.62m. 21, Roddy Schenk, Tennessee, 62.84m. 22, Steven Coponi, Rutgers, 62.82m. 23, Kevin Burr, Tennessee, 61.62m. 24, Sam Roller, North Dakota St., 60.58m. Decathlon- (points after 5 events) 1, Peyton Bair, Mississippi St. 4,479. 2, Brad Thomas, UC Santa Barbara, 4,192. 3, Ben Barton, BYU, 4,190. 4, Colby Eddowes, Arkansas St., 4,112. 5, Marcus Weaver, Arkansas, 4,090. 6, Grant Levesque, Houston, 4,068. 7, Jaden Roskelley, BYU, 4,062. 8, Tayton Klein, Kansas, 4,051. 9, Kenneth Byrd, Louisville, 4,033. 10, Paul Kallenberg, Louisville, 4,023. 11, Cole Wilson, High Point, 3,988. 12, Andreas Hantson, Purdue, 3,992. 13, Diarmuid O'Connor, UConn, 3,946. 14, Ryan Gregory, Long Beach St., 3,920. 15, Alexander Jung, Kansas, 3,916. 16, Landon Helms,, Boise St., 3,898. 17, Emil Uhlin, Kansas St., 3,897. 18, Joshua Mooney, UConn, 3,788. 19, Nick Bianco, Colorado, 3,788. 20, Brayden Richards, Air Force, 3,788. 21, Till Steinforth, Nebraska, 3,330. DNF, Edgar Campre, Miami. Maxwell Forte, Duke. Abraham Vogelsang, Iowa.
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