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He was still perceived to be too big to play safety by a lot of people.
I don't think it's a stretch to say they value safeties over corner, because the safeties are what the defense is really centered around. ET, imo, is by far the most important player on defense.
I don't think that's true, I mean a lot of people thought of Kam as an OLB. They evaluate safeties like they evaluate every other position, ET has a unique skill set.
And it's not like they valued Sherm all that highly when they drafted him, he sat for half of his rookie season. I'm not even...
I'm looking at it as they value Safeties A LOT, not that they don't value CBs. They picked ET in the first round, he's the ONLY player in the secondary they've spent higher than a 4th round pick on. And that was their first draft, they could have gone ANY direction there, the roster at that...
I wouldn't be shocked is Bradford got the job. Seems like he's the most athletic guy out of those guys, since JS/PC converted him from RB, he's also an undersized guy though. Toomer is the biggest out of those guys.
They've had opportunities to take CBs higher, they also took their safeties before they took corners even though they needed both.
And yes, Sherman is one of the top CBs in the league. But I do think he's very much a system player, and not nearly as close to as valuable to the defense as ET. If...
He took ET in the 1st round. Highest pick he's ever spent on a CB is a 5th rounder. It's not common for a team to pay 2 top end safeties and a top end corner, extending Kam means they're likely planning on doing that. But given the choice between Sherm and ET, I take ET 100 out of 100 times.