Austin Barber's consistency outweighs his injury battles

Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice is joined by his dad – former NFL head coach Mike Tice – to discuss how the Florida offensive lineman will transition to the NFL. Check out the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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And this is Austin Barber from Florida.

a lot of experience starting both sides of the ball, left and right tackle.

A guy– This is the guy when I refer to when I said was measured in bigger than I expected, because I thought he was such a solid mover, but he was six-six and 7.8, so six-seven, three-eighteen.

Ran a five one two, almost thirty-four inch arms, thirty-three and a quar- or three quarters.

good length, has b- has battled some injury stuff, in his career as well, but has been banged up.

But I, I don’t know, I’ve, I’ve liked him.

I kept him in my top fifty.

I think I’m one of the higher guys on him.

I thought he had some good quickness, had some decent technique stuff as well.

I called him just a consistent player ’cause he’s been on my radar for a while, has light feet.

He does a lot of stuff well, but nothing overwhelming.

but I kinda just kinda kept him in that middle second round range, late second round grade.

But what’d you think about Austin Barber from Florida?

I, I have the same grade on him, but And, and, and, and then let me, be, honest here.

I only did one game on him ’cause I didn’t get a chance to circle back, to him ’cause I ran out of time.

But I did say two things.

Fifteen guys.

One, he, one, he’s, one of He’s one of my, fourteen guys I told you I’d love to coach.

Okay.

Unfortunately for him, when I graded him, I graded him against Ole Miss, and he had that big elbow brace on, that big arm brace, and it looked like- Yep he was in a lot of hurt.

So I, I had on my notes to go back to a earlier game in the season and see how he plays with two arms because I thought he played the Ole Miss game really wi- really well.

I’m looking at my notes, and he had a lot of good things, but the o- the really, the only negative I would say is not using both hands .

But meanwhile, he had a brace on, that it looked like he had some type of major or severe injury that wasn’t just pain, it was an injury.

I, you know, I, I didn’t circle back around, and I probably won’t after we get done with this show, but I’d, I’d be interested to look at an earlier game and see how he used his hands, ’cause that was one of the things he didn’t do as really well, doesn’t throw his hands.

And then I say, “But he has a huge elbow brace on.”

So I, I think there’s an injury there when I watched him.

And I, I, I try to watch him against good teams.

So I watched him against Ole Miss, and I didn’t get back to a second game.

So, I, I’m sure he’s- Sure and, and again, I have him ranked right below that group we just talked about, and so I- Yep have him in a, a second round grade, which is not a bad thing.

No.

That, that’s, yeah, I think we have him graded the same.

He, he’s had a, a multitude of injuries.

N- nothing like overwhelming, but stuff.

He has ankle and left shoulder injuries, as a sophomore, then he had a shoulder surgery after that, so that for, for spring.

So he’s probably always had just something it seems like, with his ar- with his ar- elbows and arms and shoulders a- and whatnot, and I think that’s hindered him a little bit.

He-

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