Jones & Keefe: Making sense of Will Campbell's season thus far

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00:00He's played seven games or whatever where you're like, all right, he's a serviceable tackle.

00:04I don't, I mean, I'm not putting him in the Pro Bowl yet.

00:07You know what I mean?

00:08Like, I think there's a line there where you're like, all right, he looks like a starting tackle, but it doesn't mean he's perfect.

00:13And yesterday, because he also, he wasn't great in the Tennessee game.

00:16And now, so you're following that up with back-to-back not great games.

00:19You saying he's serviceable?

00:20I think he's right.

00:20He's played eight games?

00:21Yeah.

00:22He was bad against Vegas in the opener.

00:25He was bad against Pittsburgh, which is T.J. Watt.

00:27I get it.

00:27He was bad against Tennessee, and he was bad yesterday.

00:32So that doesn't mean he can't play tackle, but that does mean he's a rookie feeling his way out.

00:36And calling him serviceable, Keith, I think is accurate, and that's a massive upgrade over last year.

00:41Oh, yeah.

00:42I think Campbell has mostly been fine, but there is a section of the fan base that wants to turn him into a pro bowler or a Hall of Famer,

00:49and I just, I don't think we've seen that.

00:50He's a wild improvement over what they got or what they had a year ago.

00:54I think so far he's been worth the fourth overall pick.

00:57I'm not saying it's a bust of a pick or anything.

00:59No, it's not a bust of a pick.

01:00Fourth overall pick is...

01:01You don't think so?

01:02That is like a pro bowl, all pro guy.

01:03Okay.

01:04But it was such a need, and they struck out on it in crazy.

01:07That's why I'd say it was probably worth it.

01:09No, and they're 6-2, so I guess in that sense, yes, it's worth it.

01:12But I think if you look back on it, and we talked about this, if Will Campbell is Nate Solder,

01:17is everybody agreeing that that's an awesome pick, or you're like, well, it's fine.

01:22I want a little bit more.

01:23Right.

01:23So it's early.

01:24He's halfway through his rookie year, but I feel like Nate Solder, who was not the fourth pick

01:28in the draft, I think he was like 17, somewhere in there.

01:31It's like, okay.

01:33I forget, he might not even have been the first tackle taken.

01:35Whereas Will Campbell was the first offensive lineman taken.

01:38And yeah, he's going to have his lumps against TJ Watt and Miles Garrett, and we'll see where

01:44he goes from here.

01:44Uh, text line, relax, Campbell was just tiring him out.

01:47He's playing chess.

01:48Rope-a-dope.

01:49Uh, there's also this, some of those sacks are on Drake May.

01:52Do you agree with that yesterday?

01:54Taking too long to get the football out?

01:55I don't know about yesterday.

01:56I would say the overall total, we had a caller bring up, he's been sacked 29 times.

01:59I think.

02:00I think.

02:00You could go through a bunch of those.

02:02I don't know about yesterday, though.

02:03No, yesterday, I feel like they were getting home pretty quick.

02:04Yeah.

02:05I don't think there was a lot of Drake May holding onto the football yesterday, but overall, that's

02:09probably a fair criticism of Drake, and he's had that criticism of himself.

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