ANDREW SICILIANO: "Lukas Van Ness has done it week after week, but he never started, Scott. Like, that's the big thing — you're going to see Lukas Van Ness look amazing tonight, the edge player out of Iowa, but he never started. What do you want to see from him?"
SCOTT PIOLI: "here's what you see when you watch him on tape. You see this explosion, you see this incredible strength, power out of a guy who's got some length. Starting is very interesting to me. You talk to coaches about who's starting, it's about packages now, and who plays in what package. Just because a guy doesn't start doesn't mean they're not going to get 50 snaps a game. So sometimes you start in nickel, you start in regular, you don't know what's going to happen."
"But to me, what I want to see from him — the question is what are his numbers? Because I see on tape—I see the strength, I see the speed, I see the explosion, I just don't know how fast he really is. Not that that's going to determine where I'm gonna draft him. Because he's a terrific player and we already know what kind of person he is, so again he's another guy who's gonna come in here, who doesn't have to show me a whole lot because there is so much on tape regardless of whether he's starting."
SICILIANO: "And he will tell the story — and obviously the story checks out — upperclassmen ahead of him, he still had a very high snap count compared to the guys that were on the field ahead of him, and he tied for the team lead in sacks, so he was a very productive player when he was on the field."
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SCOTT PIOLI: "here's what you see when you watch him on tape. You see this explosion, you see this incredible strength, power out of a guy who's got some length. Starting is very interesting to me. You talk to coaches about who's starting, it's about packages now, and who plays in what package. Just because a guy doesn't start doesn't mean they're not going to get 50 snaps a game. So sometimes you start in nickel, you start in regular, you don't know what's going to happen."
"But to me, what I want to see from him — the question is what are his numbers? Because I see on tape—I see the strength, I see the speed, I see the explosion, I just don't know how fast he really is. Not that that's going to determine where I'm gonna draft him. Because he's a terrific player and we already know what kind of person he is, so again he's another guy who's gonna come in here, who doesn't have to show me a whole lot because there is so much on tape regardless of whether he's starting."
SICILIANO: "And he will tell the story — and obviously the story checks out — upperclassmen ahead of him, he still had a very high snap count compared to the guys that were on the field ahead of him, and he tied for the team lead in sacks, so he was a very productive player when he was on the field."
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