Scout on Floyd
OLB- Leonard Floyd (Georgia). Floyd has Pro Bowl ability. But only when his pads aren’t on. The 6-foot-6, 244-pounder runs a 4.6 forty and has a 127-inch broad jump. Maybe you heard. SPARQ placed him in the 77th percentile athletically among NFL linebackers (I actually thought Floyd would do even better than that). Despite that athleticism, Floyd managed only 17 sacks over his three seasons, including 4.5 last year. Only 11.5 of his career sacks came against the SEC, and a mere 4.5 of them occurred outside the city limits of Athens. Oh, and he had zero career interceptions, four career passes defensed and was a non-factor in the run game. To recap: Floyd struggles in coverage, is too frail to defend the run, and was never a dominant pass rusher in college. Not the way I want to spend a first-round pick. If there’s a silver lining here, it’s that Georgia often used Floyd as a 3-4 ILB. So your best case scenario here is that Floyd is Charlize Theron and Jeremy Pruitt is her makeup artist from Monster.