DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk 2024 NFL Draft Round 7 Selection - DT Jowon Briggs

Cincinnati .. another DT

Practice Squad type.

I hope his lunch pail is full!! I want this young man to put on a show he gets picked up by another team.

It's a bitter sweat. Only one or two guys drafted this year will make this roster.

I hope Berry makes joining the Browns a perk. Worst case they use Cleveland as a springboard to make a living on another team.

I hope his lunch pail is full!! I want this young man to put on a show he gets picked up by another team.

It's a bitter sweat. Only one or two guys drafted this year will make this roster.

I hope Berry makes joining the Browns a perk. Worst case they use Cleveland as a springboard to make a living on another team.

I don't know. More than 1-2 will make the team.

You always have your bottom 10 on the team and several of them have been around 3 years. It's easy to purge those guys out to bring in some new blood. After 2-3 years to see, it's time to bring in some new players and give them a chance to prove out.

You don't want to get stale at the bottom end of the roster or you might lose out on that hidden gem. If that earlier hunch hasn't played out after 2-3 years, time to go with another hunch.

Maybe he can push Ika to the PS.

...was not expecting this....

Bonefish mentioned how Schwartz uses his DTs in the Mike Hall thread which sent me down the internet rabbit hole and I found an old coaches clinic Schwartz gave on YouTube. It was for OL coaches, but it approached OL from a DC's perspective. In it, he gave an anecdote about Bob Dahl. He was a DT to OG convert. I wonder if Briggs might be a candidate for that. His RAS for IOL is higher than at DT. (link)

He also talked about the 2 OL coach dynamic the Browns had under Belichik. One guy (Ferentz) coached big picture scheme, the other focused more on individual development. If we mirror that setup, and Istvan was Mailata's individual dev guy, I'd feel pretty good about Briggs' chances, or at least wouldn't be against taking such a chance.

Just some random connections my brain made that made me go hmmmmmmmm.

Nice video, thanks for posting. Personable kid, humble. He’ll get a chance, and I hope he makes the most of it.

I watched his entire presser. Impressive young man.

It’s hard not to be an instant fan.

Impressive or not, it is still going to be hard to make the room. He has a chance and the team might decide to go with a cheaper option.

If he sticks at all, it's probably more realistic to think practice squad. The practice squad is ok. It's a place to develop a guy who you think has a chance. Those guys make around $9000 a week while on the squad. Enough to prevent them from having to work at Chipotle during the off season and allow them to work on their game, unless they are stupid with their money

What a likable dude. Can’t help but root for him. 42 reps of 225 is insane. And he’s got to be smart, UVA isn’t a school that accepts dummies just to play ball. Probably why they’re never great. If UC Berkeley or Michigan are the Harvard of public schools, UVA is like the Princeton. My daughter last year got into BC, BU, Colgate and waitlisted at Michigan (eventually accepted) and was a quick rejection from UVA. Anyway, I digress.
Hope it works out for him. 3 kids at 22… sheesh 😵 That’ll put a fire under a guy.

I agree on UVA on admittance standards. I think they all now allow some variance on athlete's, but they still don't allow a dunce to enter.

ok, I am officially rooting for this kid to show up big and be a long-term member of the team

in his favor, you don't get much cheaper than a 7th rounder on a rookie deal unless you go UDFA

He won’t be a camp cut unless he implodes, even a seventh-rounder who doesn’t fall on his face all the time gets at least a season, at worst on the PS.

It's still a crowded room. How many DT's can the team keep? Sometimes it just comes down to numbers. Even if he plays well, it will probably be for the practice squad.

We have several DT's on 1 year contracts. As I said earlier, maybe we go cheaper. Maybe guys get hurt in camp. Hey, maybe he balls out and simply bullies his way on to the team. Another factor against him is Hall. I don't think the team would be all that keen on having 2 rookies at DT one the final roster. That would create an experience gap.

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Not saying it's impossible, but it's hard to fake the type of personality he's putting out there. Definitely rooting for him, and not just because having a deep and talented Dline is a boon to any team.

Not to be the downer here, but people thought Perrion Winfrey was cool and going to be a great player.

This kid certainly talks way better than Winfrey. That said, he is a 7th rounder. The odds are long. Way long.

Winfrey ...... lol I’d forgotten him.

Easy person to forget.

Jowon and Winfrey are nothing alike, other than being later round picks. I do agree his odds are long but I thought it was interesting in his presser that he said the way he was asked to play in college and the way the Browns will ask him to play are different. That always makes me wonder if we got a steal because we focused less about what was on tape and more about projection.

At any rate he’ll be an easy guy to root for.

My only point is Winfrey got a lot of hype, but the guy was an idiot.

I will root for the kid. If he can move one of Harris or Hurst, so be it.

I still think he is bound for the practice squad. A full season with an NFL team gives him a good shot at finding his way towards significant play time next year.

Winfrey was an idiot coming in. He was an idiot in college. Briggs seems like the exact opposite. We'll see.

I think the Browns love drafting boom or bust type players be sis if the value if they boom.

Probably much the same way these first round picks were selected by other teams.....

LB Vernon Gholston, Jets (2008, sixth overall pick)

WR Justin Blackmon, Jaguars (2012, fifth overall pick)

RB Lawrence Phillips, Rams (1996, sixth overall pick)

WR Charles Rogers, Lions (2003, second overall pick)

QB Trey Lance, 49ers (2021, third overall pick) We all know how badly the 49'ers suck, right?

QB Ryan Leaf, Chargers (1998, second overall pick)

QB JaMarcus Russell, Raiders (2007, first overall pick)

The fact of the matter is only 8% of fourth round draft picks ever become starters in the NFL...........................

A few years ago I did a 20 year look at exactly how good your chances are of being a solid starter in the NFL, based on your draft round. I just wanted to mention this as we get salty about how bad this or that guy is playing who was taken in the 3rd or 4th round. Odds are not high you will become a difference maker in the NFL... no matter where you're taken.

1st round - about 50% of players drafted in the 1st round developed into solid NFL starters.

2nd round - about 33% of players drafted in the 2nd round developed into solid NFL starter. From here, it dropped by 50% per round.

3rd round - about 16%.

4th round - about 8%.

5th round - about 4-5%.

6th round - about 2%.

7th round - about 1-2%.

Note: this wasn't based on likelihood of making an NFL roster, it was based on subjective factors, like # of seasons or games starting, statistical performance, Pro Bowls, etc. So it wasn't that only 2% of 6th rounders would be role-players, it was that 2% would become solid starters. Lots of 4th, 5th, 6th rounders develop into decent special teamers or fill-in guys. Almost none of them became every week starters, though. I think I didn't include kickers and punters in the calculation, though.

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