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hawk45":1zufzy8f said:This thread took an entertaining turn when Montana floated the idea that some posters might just be George Fant in disguise, which I'm not gonna lie occurred to me also (in jest).
But Popcorn aside I come down squarely with Montana: Fant got abused his rookie season (excusable for a rookie but it's fact), any idea that he will progress linearly is straight speculation, he's coming off of an injury, so it is a bit out-there to think we could throw a position change on top of all of this and see it as anything but a LONG long shot that he is any kind of answer at RT this year.
Ifedi is bad you say? Sure, but Ifedi didn't transition from power forward prior to this; he played this EXACT position in college. On an actual football team and everything. So even if Ifedi lacks some lateral agility Fant possesses, Ifedi is equally - I would say much MORE than equally but I won't try and force my opinion on others - that Ifedi's progress at the position he played LAST YEAR puts him further up the road to serviceability than Fant's progress at a position he hasn't even officially been moved to yet after a year of injury.
Just my opinion, but anyone who discusses Fant at RT at this moment without serious and crippling caveats sprinkled liberally throughout their post deserves any stink-eye they get.
It may work! But as others have observed, Fant's story and the fact that he's come this far from basketball player have led some to erroneously project linear progress to a good option at tackle in the NFL, and that projection has very questionable provenance.
Is more equally what? Servicable?
I don't believe a purely linear progression is feasible by anyone in this situation, simply because Fant started at zero...but let me ask you this...if you start at (0,0) (grade, year) and project a line through a point from there to (25, 1)...do you have a steeper trajectory than you would if you started the line at (15,0)? You sure as hell do. The relative trajectory is what has people excited. The relative amount of progress he made is very exciting. I don't really consider that "questionable provenance".
Do you believe Fant has reached his ceiling? What kind of growth/progression would YOU project? Evidently not linear...so then maybe exponential? Hyperbolic? Is he even going to get better at all? How do you know?
If making projections was easy, then drafting players would be straightforward. But we're dealing with humans, not robots. Nobody knows what the future holds for ol' George Fant...but if you believe in development AT ALL, then he has to excite you no matter where he plays.