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I don’t want to hear anything about arthritic shoulders and all that stuff. There is no way Jonathan Allen should have fallen all the way to the 17th overall pick. A Lisfranc injury actually did cost Allen all but five games of his rookie season, but when he was on the field he was man-handling offensive linemen.

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Ten tackles and only one sack don’t really sound like the numbers I would have liked to see from my second overall prospect in the draft just behind Myles Garrett, but when I put on the tape I was totally fine with my original grade for when he came out of Alabama. I thought Allen was the most dominant player in all of college football in 2016, before declaring for the draft.

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His amount of natural power is unbelievable and he has much better flexibility and quickness than he gets credit for as a pass-rusher. If you need any indication of what he is capable of, watch him take the lunch money of a former All-Pro in Oakland’s Kelechi Osemele in week last three last season.

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