STRENGTHS
Charlie has the size and athletic talent along with using solid techniques to be a dominating offensive tackle for the team that selects him. He is a big kid with good weight and long arms that the teams look for in the prototypical offensive tackle. He has the athletic talent to play Left Tackle but seems more at home on the right side but either way, being able to play on either side makes Charlie very valuable to just about any team in this draft. He shows on film enough vertical agility to mirror his opponent and his techniques are very mature, making Charlie one of the least penalized offensive lineman in this draft. Charlie is efficient and because he does such a good job of protecting his quarterback at the college-level without much flair, Charlie is being underrated in this draft or is he?
CONCERNS
Charlie needs to get a lot stronger in his upper and lower body to compete at the next level. He falls off his blocks and when he does play with some aggression he overextends himself and loses the use of those mature techniques that impresses me. Charlie seems to lack the motivation to be one of the best offensive tackles in this draft. He seems to mentally be stuck at a certain talent level and that is disconcerting. He needs to improve his mental stamina and physical stamina if he wants to be a starting offensive lineman for the team that selects him.
BOTTOM LINE 3.33
Charlie has the athletic talent to be one of the best offensive tackles in this draft but I’m not sure that’s what he wants in life. He strikes me as the type of person who just wants to go fishing every day and not the type of kid that is motivated to play any competitive game to the best of his ability. I watch him play on film and it looks to me like this kid just loves life and playing football is not a priority, it’s just a means to an end. Sitting on a dock of a bay seems to be more to his liking. Hopefully, I’m wrong but if I’m right then Charlie winds up being a backup Offensive Tackle that can play either side in a pinch but not a starting Offensive tackle and this, of course, will affect his draft status. Remember, I’m only going by what I see on film, and maybe there are reasons for this talented player not to be as dominant as his athletic talent suggests he should be at this point in his career. I hope there is because if Charlie can be motivated to play up to his talent level, he will be one of the sleeper picks in this draft and play for a long time for the team that selects him.
