He was projected to be an NFL guard coming out of college. The Giants thinking when they drafted him was that he would play guard. However, due to bad drafting and injuries, he was forced to RT; and has demonstrated why he wasn't projected as an NFL RT
in his 3rd year. the fact he's even on the team is bucking the odds, the fact he's played so much puts him in rare company.
He might have been wally pip'd as a starter, but he absolutely has a place on the roster the rest of this year and next year while he's under contract (at very low $$$) and hope he continues to improve and become versatile.
Jones is similar though Jones is an RFA after the season.
on BBI. He is a guard. Pugh should never have been moved from RT. Hart just does not have the foot speed to be a tackle. He is very strong - would love to see him at guard over Jerry.....
MEDIA Q&A WITH GENERAL MANAGER JERRY REESE: (Video)
Opening Statement: Our seventh round pick… Bobby Hart, guard from Florida State. Actually he played tackle a lot, but we project him as a guard up here for us. He has played a lot of football. I think he’s only 20 years old. I don’t want to say really long arms, but his arms are 33 inches. He has good arm length. He’s played a lot of ball at a high level of competition for Florida State. I see guys like that with his skill set. We see them every Sunday playing in the National Football League. But we do think he’s a guard and not a tackle.
MEDIA Q&A WITH VICE PRESIDENT OF PLAYER EVALUATION MARC ROSS: (Video)
Q: Would you have noticed a player like Bobby Hart if he had not come from such a prestigious school?
A: Yeah, I think so because the guy is 6-6 and 330 pounds. Those guys just don’t walk down the street and you don’t notice them. We would have noticed him. He is a big, competitive kid. He is smart. He is very young. He started as a freshman at Florida State, and he is still only 20-21 years old. He has played a lot of football for a young player at a high level, obviously for a winning program, so those are the things you have to think that he is not going to come here and be intimidated by anything. He is going to come here and come to work.
Q: What makes you view him as an inside prospect?
A: He’s more of a box-area athlete. He is not a nifty mover. He is a big, massive, mauling guard type of profile as opposed to a tackle with movement. He has excellent length and strength for an inside player.
Now, I ask you: WHERE HAS THE COACHING STAFF BEEN PLAYING HIM since draft day?
about wanting productive players out of the sixth and seventh rounds of the draft, fans sure do love to trash those types of players who have to work hard just to keep jobs. It's not Hart's fault he's overmatched. He hasn't been put in any kind of position to grow. Him playing is simply a demonstration of the failure to put a starting offensive line on the field.
+1
This is a no brainer.
He might have been wally pip'd as a starter, but he absolutely has a place on the roster the rest of this year and next year while he's under contract (at very low $$$) and hope he continues to improve and become versatile.
Jones is similar though Jones is an RFA after the season.
Flowers, Pugh, Richburgh, Jerry, Hart
Opening Statement: Our seventh round pick… Bobby Hart, guard from Florida State. Actually he played tackle a lot, but we project him as a guard up here for us. He has played a lot of football. I think he’s only 20 years old. I don’t want to say really long arms, but his arms are 33 inches. He has good arm length. He’s played a lot of ball at a high level of competition for Florida State. I see guys like that with his skill set. We see them every Sunday playing in the National Football League. But we do think he’s a guard and not a tackle.
MEDIA Q&A WITH VICE PRESIDENT OF PLAYER EVALUATION MARC ROSS: (Video)
Q: Would you have noticed a player like Bobby Hart if he had not come from such a prestigious school?
A: Yeah, I think so because the guy is 6-6 and 330 pounds. Those guys just don’t walk down the street and you don’t notice them. We would have noticed him. He is a big, competitive kid. He is smart. He is very young. He started as a freshman at Florida State, and he is still only 20-21 years old. He has played a lot of football for a young player at a high level, obviously for a winning program, so those are the things you have to think that he is not going to come here and be intimidated by anything. He is going to come here and come to work.
Q: What makes you view him as an inside prospect?
A: He’s more of a box-area athlete. He is not a nifty mover. He is a big, massive, mauling guard type of profile as opposed to a tackle with movement. He has excellent length and strength for an inside player.
Now, I ask you: WHERE HAS THE COACHING STAFF BEEN PLAYING HIM since draft day?