Armand Membou – OL – 21 years old – Junior – Missouri
Size: 1m91
Weight: 146 kg
Estimated position in the draft: 1er round
NFL comparison: Zach Tom
There are lines of line who check all the physical boxes and are selected at the Draft because they are athletic monsters. And there are profiles that do not correspond to the standard, but which are there because they are better than other weeks after weeks. Armand Membou is part of the second category, which makes him an exciting player to observe.
Armand Membou strengths
- Balance / control
- Mobility / agility
- Technical
- Mentality
There are few players who arrive at the draft with such an incredible technical finesse. From feet to head, the body works in perfect harmony. The eyes identify and the feet hold in particular the balance, one of the advantages of not being too large. It clearly has athletic capabilities higher than average and abnormal agility for a tackle.
His Qi Football is at least as impressive as his mobility, as he seems ahead of the game. The term “mirror” has been invented to describe it, as he anticipates the movements of his vis-à-vis. Its concentration is perfect, it is involved from the first to the last second of the action, without loss of energy.
This is all the paradox of this player: certain doubts of him for what he does not control (his size), when he is almost perfect in everything he masters. In terms of mentality, a hard worker as he will necessarily do an incredible NFL player.
Weak points by Armand Membou
- Physical dimension
- Lateral displacement
Armand Membou has only one weak point: these dimensions are not those expected for a tackle in NFL. Since it lacks size, it is sometimes put in difficulty in front of large rushers who can take advantage of a physical advantage to dominate Membou on a pure power duel.
If we want to be really critical, we can note that sometimes Armand Membou can rush on his lateral movements, which occasionally leads to a desynchronization in hands and legs. Even by being technically exceptional, he can sometimes lose the duel on things he does not control, or try to do too much to compensate.
Possible destinations
New York Giants, New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Jets, San Francisco 49ers
All the teams looking for a draft tackle will have membou online in sight. It would be perfectly suitable for the 49ers, in a mobile system that knows how to adapt the patterns to the physics of the players. But it is not assured that it is available in choice 11.
Drake Maye or Trevor Lawrence must be protected, and it would not be surprising to see one of the two teams choose Membou to protect the blind side in the long term. Except earthquake, it will not come out of the top 15.
