Player Profile: Zacch Pickens, DT From South Carolina

Sports Talk Chicago

Football, Sports, Baseball

5.0 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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On today’s show, host Jon Zaghloul breaks down the Bears’ selection of Zacch Pickens and what sort of role he could play defensively in 2023.

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0:00.0	Zach Pickens, defensive tackles, South Carolina, from number 64, round three.
0:05.8	Standout defender for the game, Cox.
0:07.4	Pickens had 42 tackles, four tackles for loss, two and a half sacks last year.
0:14.4	In the year prior, Pickens had four sacks and five tackles for loss.
0:23.5	Pickens does stop the run,
0:26.7	and that's according to PFF.
0:28.3	Does it only show up in the box score
0:29.8	and has the athleticism to be a serious disruptor?
0:35.7	Exciting.
0:42.8	And another defensive tackle. They took Dexter at 53. They took pickings at 64. 11 picks apart, two defensive tackles. Why are they taking so many defensive tackles?
0:47.1	Because their run game sucked. The run defense sucked. That's why. That's why they're doing that.
0:53.8	I think Brian Poles doesn't know.
0:56.1	They need an edge rusher.
0:57.7	They also need somebody who could stop giving up five to six yard runs every single carry from every single team.
1:04.0	The Lions drafted a running back.
1:05.4	The Lions have three running backs this year now that are solid, including David Montgomery.
1:10.8	The Vikings have a couple of running backs.
1:13.9	The Packers still do.
1:17.0	That's going to be six games out of the year.
1:19.0	They need running defense help.
1:22.3	They need running defensive help.
1:24.7	Somebody like Pickets, and somebody like Dexter could do it. And I'm not saying again,
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