Well, no-one would trade up for this pick, so the L.A. Rams use pick #176, 2'nd pick in the 6'th round for NT P.J. Hall of Sam Houston St.
P.J. HALL
SAM HOUSTON ST.
NT
Prospect Info
COLLEGE
Sam Houston St.
HOMETOWN
CLASS
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Senior
HEIGHT
WEIGHT
ARMS
6' 1"
310 lbs
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Prospect Grade
5.73
CHANCE TO BECOME NFL STARTER
PLAYLIST
Despite weighing about 300 pounds and being generously listed at 6-foot-1, Patrick Hall, Jr. (goes by P.J.) played as an outside rusher (standing up and hand-down) early in his career because of his quickness. The two-time first-team Associated Press FCS All-American played defensive tackle as a senior, however, garnering first-team All-Southland Conference honors by racking up 60 tackles, 19 for loss, six sacks, six pass breakups, and tying for the FCS lead with four blocked kicks. Hall was the 2016 Southland Conference Defensive Player of the Year and a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award as the top defender in the old Division 1AA after racking up 24.5 tackles for loss and 13 sacks among his 56 total stops (along with three forced fumbles) in 13 starts. Hall was a third-team AP All-American pick and first-team All-Southland selection as a sophomore, leading the Kats with 75 tackles, 22 for loss and 11 sacks. He also blocked five kicks on the year, the second straight season he accomplished that feat. In his redshirt freshman season, Hall started his assault on the record books with a third-team AP All-American and first-team all-conference season. He finished third in Jerry Rice Award voting (top freshman in the FCS) after recording 30 tackles for loss and 12 sacks among his 93 stops, as well as forcing four fumbles.
By Lance Zierlein, NFL Analyst
Draft Projection
Rounds 3-4
NFL Comparison
Grady Jarrett
Overview
What Hall lacks in height, weight and length, he makes up for with power, quickness, and explosiveness. Hall has the quickness and strength to be disruptive against the run and pass as a shade nose or reduced front three-technique. His level of production in every category imaginable could foreshadow his ability to translate into the NFL, but he will have to prove he can maintain his weight and stand up to the rigors of the interior with bigger men across from him.
Strengths
- Staggering production
- Dominated his level of competition for four years
- Finished with 86.5 tackles for loss and 42 sacks for his career
- Compact with explosive power
- Has a 700-pound squat to his name
- Quick off the snap with early hands
- Sharp upward thrust into blocker establishes leverage
- Owned point of attack against his competition
- Able to brace up against double teams
- Equally powerful with upper and lower body
- Athletic and rangy as tackler
- Drives under and through the guard's edge
- Corners tightly to quarterback once he's in the pocket
- Able to push pocket as bull rusher
- Eyeballs quarterback and mirrors his scramble for secondary sacks
- His 14 career blocked kicks is unheard of
- Staggering pro day numbers included a 38" vertical, 36 lifts and a sub 4.8 forty
The Rams have now acquired OC/OG Ryan Groy by way of trade,
Edge Rusher Jeff Holland in the 3'rd round, and drafted
OT/OG - Geron Christian & FS Tarvarius Moore in the 4'th round.
Rams traded for DE Chris Long,
Drafted ILB Mike McCray in the 5'th & with their final pick of the 2018 draft use the 6'th round for NT PJ Hall.