I've only been doing this for two years now, so take this with a grain of salt. I know what they're saying in the immediate media. All I was saying was that he doesn't wrap and he has the size of a large defensive back, which isn't a new criticism of him. That he's being limited to WLB is for now great. What has always worried me about him is that they use him as a tweener in packages rather than as a three-down LB. That three-down LB is what we want for scoring purposes.
I won't know if I got a bargain until they really deploy him how they'll use them. Guys like Kislingbury are skeptical of slot linebackers and of Koramoah as a fantasy guy (and he's skeptical of everything, but he has a right to be in this case) because they don't get a lot of in-box tackles; rather, they're in coverage. And if you look at a bunch of the tackles JOK had the other night, they're off the ball and in coverage. There's a sack, and two or so tackles on running plays, the rest on passes. So...
I don't know what conclusion one can draw. I took him as a calculated risk, thinking maybe he'd have a Jeremy Chinn type role where he plays more of a linebacker/box DB. His number (chosen freely of course this year, but he was number six at ND) and his size make him look like a DB, frankly. If he's at WLB, all the better for me. If he's Chinn, all the better for me. But he's being called the "future" of linebacking, which means a lot of coverage. Everyone else's mileage may vary, but to me, he's a risk.