Kris Jenkins?

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Originally Posted by GMScud

I don't think Jenkins is in decline. He has had two significant injuries (one shoulder, one ACL) but he is only 27 years old and b/c of injury has only actually played 4 seasons out of his 6 seasons in the league. That's good and bad. There is the possibility of him truly being injury prone, but that is also 32 less games of physical punishment on the rest of his body.

We'd have to give him an extensive physical/workout, but he started all 16 games last year (he's started all 16 games in each of his 4 healthy seasons), and at 6-4, 335, he is a massive run-stuffer. I am very weary of trading draft picks for free agents, but I'll call this intriguing if we get the 14th overall and the 5th.

The key part here is that he got injured during the seasons that he should have been making the jump from monsterous undisciplined talent to unstoppable beast. These are not years he can have back, and due to all the practice time he lost, its not a jump he's ever going to make.

What you have in Kris Jenkins now if he's totally healthy is an above league average player who could have been so much more. Fortunately for him, some team is going to pay him like what he could have been, and not like what he's going to be.

That team won't be the Redskins.