Some comments from Reich:
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Reich saw a player solid in pass protection, but as good in run blocking as he’s ever seen coming out of the college game, especially when he pulled from his guard position and became a lead blocker off the edge.
“He was just productive in every kind of run scheme there is – in zone-run scheme, in gap-run scheme,” Reich said. “We charted him as a puller. I mean his productivity when pulling was just so far greater than anything we’ve ever seen.”
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This is some of what I was referring to in my response to GBB. We get caught up in thinking about protecting Luck and the scheme being about quick passes, but Reich wants to mix zone and power run concepts along with screens. Nelson will be
great in all of that.
It's a completely rational pick even if I would have gone another direction.