bradshaw2ben wrote:Marcus Peters. Holy shit.
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THE best CB I've looked at... maybe ever, in terms of the stuff I like in a CB. Let's see-- premium, Richard Sherman like ball skills and anticipation. Ability to cover deep threats, big dudes, and slot guys. Hits, wraps, tackles in open field. Can excel in off man... transitions and makes plays/tackles short of sticks. Aggressive, violent hitter. Can also line up over a guy and erase him. Can play on an island with no fear. Plays with a chip on his shoulder. As a Sophomore just absolutely erased Brandin Cooks. The next NFL CB superstar waiting to happen.
Why do I bother mentioning him, since a guy like that would be a top 5 pick? Apparently he choked his position coach in practice, after a series of sideline outbursts where he questioned the coaches decisions/coaching. Was suspended twice for similar behavior and then dismissed from team. What does it mean? Could he be available for the Steelers at 1.22 and would they ever take a guy like that?
First off, I think he'll be long gone, because all it takes is one team to say they don't care about the incidents. However, this is the league that knocked Dan Marino and Dez Bryant down 20-30 slots, so who knows? The most positive spin I can put on it is: the kid was happy and successful with the previous "players coach" regime and simply freaked out with the new coaching staff coming in and upsetting the apple cart. He's a team leader and felt he had to speak out against what he felt was wrong. He's a city kid, from Oakland, and the situation escalated. He's a childhood friend of Marshawn Lynch and Lynch has been mentoring him for years-- it's very similar to the trouble Marshawn Lynch had in Buffalo. Lynch moved on to Seattle and has thrived under a players' coach. A place like Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Arizona, Dallas, or Seattle would be a good environment for him, in all likelihood. Then again, you could have another Blount or Ta'amu on your hands.
As a player, I haven't seen anyone in this draft class yet who should be picked before him.
Whether the cause of his football ability is talent, work ethic, or an extra placenta, Marshawn’s athleticism and academic performance got him into the University of California—Berkeley, where he was a star for the Golden Bears football team and earned a 3.2 GPA as a Social Welfare major. Before he even began his NFL career, he understood that he could leverage his status as a prominent athlete to make a difference in his community, the way people like Delton Edwards and his uncles had made a difference for him.
When Marshawn went pro and picked an agent—naturally, a local Bay Area guy named Doug Hendrickson—Doug was amazed at his new client’s focus. “In the first meeting, he wasn’t asking about his contract,” he told Peter King. “Honest to God, his dream was to build a youth center for kids in Oakland.”
In 2011, Marshawn teamed up with a cousin, NFL quarterback Josh Johnson, to launch a Bay Area non-profit called the Fam 1st Family Foundation. He hosts hundreds of kids each year at a free football camp, and plans to do much more; his fully-realized youth complex will have a computer lab, a gymnasium, a music studio, and will increasingly segue from its current focus on sports. “The main component we want to teach is basic life skills I feel a lot of kids are missing,” Marshawn said to Sports Illustrated. “How to balance a checkbook, create a résumé, how to fill out a job application, how to speak with confidence one-on-one.”
“This is not a vanity project,” says supporter and current California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who met Marshawn when Gavin was mayor of San Francisco. “I’ve been in this racket long enough to have seen a lot of athletes who are just going through the motions, just checking a box. Marshawn has a deep commitment. He genuinely cares about his community, which is inspiring to see. Not only is he going to get this place built, but I’m going to predict the doors will never close.”
In addition to the non-profit and the youth center, Marshawn also does a lot of day-to-day assistance with disadvantaged children, from turkeys on Thanksgiving and presents on Christmas to free tickets to games and tours of the locker room. Pointedly, he’s disallowed the team’s media relations staff from inviting the press to witness any of these interactions with kids and their families.
“I think he’s a great philanthropist. He does anything for kids,” says Richard Sherman, one of the handful of other Seahawks who have started a non-profit. “And I think that if more people saw that side of him, they would look at him differently.”
“I feel that’s most important,” Marshawn told 710 ESPN Seattle. “To put a different light into their lives and let them know that they actually do have a chance.”
In saying so, Marshawn seems redolent of James Baldwin, who wrote in Nothing Personal: “It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light.”
“Generations do not cease to be born,” Baldwin continues in the same essay. “And we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.”
Marshawn says, “Most people told me growing up that I would either be dead or in jail by the age of 18. I have friends that didn’t make it to 18. I’ve got homeboys now that have been in jail since they was 16. This is something that I wanted to change in my neighborhood. I felt if I could influence one kid to try to help them through life, that’s a win for me.”
SP wrote:Steve Nelson keeps on growing on me. He does everything well that the Steelers ask their corners to do. The guy competes every damn snap. Very aggressive player. He is built well and strong, gets a good jam in man to man coverage. In off coverage he closes the gap quick instead of keeping that 5-10 yard cushion and makes breaks on the ball or delivers a big pop to receiver. He is tough in run support too. He may only be 5'10 and he may only run 4.55, but the guy is a football player.
bradshaw2ben wrote:Jacoby Glenn. Redshirt sophomore. CB on FBS number 1 pass defense. Played a lot of off man coverage as the cb on an island, earlier in career played closer to the line with success.
All-American 6002, 178
I think he may be more suited to FS but, since he's barely scratched the surface of what he can do, and hasn't found anything he can't do... Lots of intriguing talent.
LSU redshirt junior CB Jalen Collins is "what you are looking for in an NFL cornerback with his length and speed," said an NFC director of personnel.
"They all have holes, but Collins is what you are looking for in an NFL cornerback with his length and speed. He isn't there yet, but he has the traits and ability to become a high-end starter and maybe the best cornerback from this draft," the director of personnel said. The 6-foot-2, 205-pound Collins is indeed bigger and faster than the majority of corners in this class. "While this year's draft lacks an elite cornerback prospect, Collins (6-foot-2, 198 pounds) has a rare combination of height, weight and speed, and this director of personnel rates him as potentially the top player at his position," wrote NFL Media draft analyst Lance Zierlein. "His technique in coverage is a work in progress, but Collins' physical traits and instincts at making plays on the ball set him apart from the rest of this year's prospects."
Source: NFL.com
NFL Media draft analyst Lance Zierlein believes Washington junior CB Marcus Peters best pro comparison is Denver Broncos Aqib Talib.
"Both entered the draft with off-field concerns. They show similar body language when things don't go their way on the field and are both volatile, but their playing styles are similar, too. They both love to attack the ball and sit down on routes to try to make things happen, Zierlein wrote. Peters was suspended for one game after he was seen throwing his helmet and gloves and arguing with Washington assistants during a win against Eastern Washington in September. Reports said he also choked a coach, though Washington defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski refuted those claims. The Washington prospect made his debut on Mel Kiper's Big Board at No. 24.
Source: NFL.com
bradshaw2ben wrote:Before a long answer-- 1st off who knows what our system or scheme is? Even if not a lot changes, how much of what they did was because of the limitations of the CBs or safeties?
Peters defies scheme. Jalen Collins looks like our guys, for better or worse. Glenn from UCF Rowe from Utah and the Virginia S/CB all play the zone man hybrid our guys play on the outside. I think Senquez Gooson might be the best fit, Nelson and white from TCU would be good in any system but all three lack ideal size.
Aussie_steeler wrote:First detailed interview I have seen from Marcus Peters
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/draft/2015/02/11/marcus-peters-washington-nfl-draft-combine/23259443/
Everyone can read it and make up their own minds.
Ronald Darby - DB - Seminoles
FSU CB Ronald Darby has "world-class speed," notes NFL Media draft analyst Lance Zierlein.
"Easy swivel to his hips with ability to open, run and hit top speed quickly," Zierlein wrote. The 5-foot-11, 188-pound corner ran a 21.05-second 200-meter dash in high school. TFY Draft Insider's Tony Pauline likes Darby as a prospect, but wrote that he has a ways to go before he is NFL-ready. Pauline is concerned with the fact that he's been beaten by numerous No. 1 receivers, including DeVante Parker and Phillip Dorsett.
Source: NFL.com Feb 13 - 2:34 AM
Julian Wilson - DB - Sooners
NFL Media draft analyst Lance Zierlein noted that Oklahoma CB Julian Wilson is a "heralded high school sprinter with blazing straight-line speed."
"Expected to run a blazing 40 time at NFL Scouting Combine," Zierlein wrote. "His combine speed will have people talking, as will his size and the classroom efforts that have helped him earn Academic All-Big 12 honors for four straight years." The 6-foot-2, 201-pound Wilson possesses the size the NFL craves, and is also intelligent, having graduated in 2013 and been named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team multiple times.
Source: NFL.com Feb 13 - 12:54 AM
