If the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were to draft Notre Dame guard Quenton Nelson in this year's NFL Draft, Nelson would inherit ample opportunities to go one-on-one in practice with Gerald McCoy, the Buccaneers' six-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle. However, it's exactly because of players like McCoy that Nelson might be off the board before pick number seven, where Tampa Bay is currently slated in the first round.
That could occur if any of the team's picking in the top six agree with the line of reasoning advanced by Nelson himself on Thursday. Speaking to the press at the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine, the 6-5, 329-pound mauler was asked to justify the idea of taking an offensive guard with a top-five draft pick.