STRENGTHS
Raekwon is an athletic wonder. He has excellent size and athletic talents along with natural strength to dominate every opponent he goes up against. He has the athletic talent, size, and natural strength to demand a double team from his opponents on every down and distance. Raekwon is a natural oversize athlete. He shows on film the lateral agility and strength to be stout against the run along with the agility to outmaneuver his opponent and rush the passer. Raekwon has remarkable athletic talent for his size and if that athletic talent ever shows up on the field he would be considered a top-five pick in any draft but alas…it has never shown up.
CONCERNS
Disappointment, I can’t even begin to express the amount of disappointment I have in Raekwon’s play on the field. Even his stats suggest this… more assisted tackles (27) than solo tackles (18). This means he getting there too late AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL. He is 6’ 7” 312lbs and athletic, and he has a half of a sack in 2019. Oh, and guess what he had in 2018… a half of a sack also. Now that’s consistency. I’m not a big stats guy when it comes to profiling players. I don’t profile by stats, I profile by what I see on the film but if I see a highly rated player not performing to anticipated standards I will go to their stats to see if I’m missing something. I’m sorry to say I’m not missing anything when he comes to Raekwon. I don’t believe he really wants to play football because it seems by his play on the field that it’s just a means to an end.
BOTTOM LINE 4.83
I hope that Raekwon gets so mad at this profile that he wants to get on an NFL field and prove me wrong with sacks and tackles and tackles for losses. If that happens I will personally go to him, print out this profile, wad it up and invite him to shove it down my throat. Nothing would make me happier for that to happen but alas, I don’t believe it will. Raekwon is just getting by. He will be drafted, because his size and workout numbers will demand it and because there will be NFL coaches who will say that they think they can “coach him up”. Of course, to that BS I will say, “are you kidding me, this kid has been on a team that has one of the best college coaches and you think you can coach him up”? Like I stated before, Raekwon is a disappointment but I don’t think he feels that way and that ladies and gentleman is the crux of the whole problem. Raekwon WILL be selected in this draft and that’s another problem, he shouldn’t be. Anyone with this type of size and athletic talent that plays like he really would prefer to be somewhere else is just taking up space. I’ll be waiting for Raekwon and believe me when I say, I hope we meet, and you have proven me wrong but somehow, I doubt it will happen. FYI. I have printed this profile out, waded it up and it now sits on my office desk in anticipation of that day that somehow I know will never happen.
