[SamuelMcF]

I'm having a hard time understanding why Hinton is struggling so much. He has good size, good bloodlines, and he was highly rated and recruited coming out of HS. Anyone have any thoughts as to what his problem is?

1. Every college OT has "good size." That's why they are college OTs in the first place. Saying "good size" is completely irrelevant for a position where literally everyone at that position is a similar size. Size means nothing if your technique sucks and/or you're slow/weak. (To be clear, I haven't keyed too much in on Hinton to diagnose his issues because to be frank I don't know what I'm looking for.)

1a. This is why I laugh so hard at people still insisting QB prospects have "good size." Nobody gives a shit how tall a QB is anymore as long as it starts with a 6 (or he's Kyler Murray/Russell Wilson).

2. A ton of players with "good bloodlines" simply don't live up to the billing. Barry J. Sanders comes to mind. CMac, while obviously being a stud, has 3 other brothers that all come from the same bloodline and, well, yeah.

3. Players that were highly rated/recruited out of HS bust all the time. Sure, the frequency of said busts is lower on average, but it still happens all the time. Matt gave a good synopsis of Hinton's recruiting saga too. We see whales fall from whale status all the time based on many factors, and Hinton was one of them. (To be fair I do think plenty of schools still wanted him, so there are tons of guys that have had even worse falls from a rankings/committable offers perspective.)

[SamuelMcF]

I'm having a hard time understanding why Hinton is struggling so much. He has good size, good bloodlines, and he was highly rated and recruited coming out of HS. Anyone have any thoughts as to what his problem is?

1. Every college OT has "good size." That's why they are college OTs in the first place. Saying "good size" is completely irrelevant for a position where literally everyone at that position is a similar size. Size means nothing if your technique sucks and/or you're slow/weak. (To be clear, I haven't keyed too much in on Hinton to diagnose his issues because to be frank I don't know what I'm looking for.)

1a. This is why I laugh so hard at people still insisting QB prospects have "good size." Nobody gives a shit how tall a QB is anymore as long as it starts with a 6 (or he's Kyler Murray/Russell Wilson).

2. A ton of players with "good bloodlines" simply don't live up to the billing. Barry J. Sanders comes to mind. CMac, while obviously being a stud, has 3 other brothers that all come from the same bloodline and, well, yeah.

3. Players that were highly rated/recruited out of HS bust all the time. Sure, the frequency of said busts is lower on average, but it still happens all the time. Matt gave a good synopsis of Hinton's recruiting saga too. We see whales fall from whale status all the time based on many factors, and Hinton was one of them. (To be fair I do think plenty of schools still wanted him, so there are tons of guys that have had even worse falls from a rankings/committable offers perspective.)