Redskins: 5 values too good to pass up at pick No. 15

Here’s an interesting one.

Your initial reaction might be “the Redskins don’t need any more defensive tackles”. And you wouldn’t be wrong. The Redskins have Jonathan Allen, Daron Payne, and Matt Ioannidis, and behind them, they have Tim Settle and Caleb Brantley, the latter of whom was a first-round hopeful at one point in 2017. The Redskins aren’t short on interior line talent.

But with that being said, the opportunity to add a talent like Ed Oliver does not come around every year. Or every five years. Or every fifteen years.

Oliver moves extraordinarily well for a defensive lineman. At 6-foot-1, 285, he’s not as big as the average defensive tackle, which helps him. But he’s still a very rare athlete. Logging a 4.75 40-yard dash, a 2.70 20-yard split, and a 1.57 10-yard split, Oliver compiled a relative athleticism score (RAS) of 9.80 this offseason.

In every movement measurement, he tested better than at least 96 percent of all defensive linemen ever recorded, and in four measurements, he tested better than over 99 percent. In the three-cone drill, Oliver logged a 7.00 flat, which is better than 99.9 percent of all linemen to take that test. You can call him a defensive tackle. But he’s so much more than that.

Simply put, Oliver is a blur on the defensive line, and he has the functional strength to pair with his otherworldly athleticism. Some sites might label him as a defensive tackle, but the truth is, Oliver has the talent to do it all. He can line up inside and on the end, and for the Redskins, if he fell to No. 15, he’d make their stellar defensive line almost unstoppable. It’s not a need, but it’s some of the best value you’ll ever come across.