1. Jabaal Sheard OLB Pitt Extremely high motor, plays with intensity and is always looking to make a play. You can tell by the way the kid runs he wants to hurt someone. Never gives up and still is looking to make a play even if he's on the opposite side of the field. He's a bad motherfucker and would be a nightmare for opposing players. 3. Kenrick Ellis DE Hampton Low risk, high reward pick. Taking a chance on a player from a small time school. Kids looking to make a name for himself. He plays with a high motor and moves fast for his size. 37.5 TFL in three years. Only played 10 games last year and recorded 94 tackles 15 TFL and 2 sacks. 4.Joe Lefeged S Rutgers Tackling machine and is good in coverage. Lacks elite speed but hopefully will have the same success McCourty has had. Kid can hit and is great on special teams and is a good kick off returner. Had six pass break ups and 84 tackles in his senior year. 5. Cameron Graham TE Lousiville Decent blocker, but a good pass catching TE. Only played his junior and senior year and put up 67 catches for 793 yards and 7 tds. Big upside and will cause match up problems just like Keller. Provides yet another weapon for Sanchez.
Nice job, I'm a little weary of Ellis' head and the small program he played at to be able to come in immediately , but eventually he can replace Ellis. Funny enough hahaha.
He is actually rather big for a 3-4 DE. I believe he is 340. But I see him as a rotational player coming in and out all over the defensive line. I think his stock will rise but if it doesnt, #30 pick in the 3rd round is pretty much an early 4th so its not that much of a reach.
He's more of a NT, I feel he'd transition better at that position as just a straight up bull. He can play 3-4 end like you said though but rotation between the positions is where he really belongs.
Only one I think is a wasted pick, 5th or not. The Jets don't need another Keller, they need a blocking TE. This is a power team, which requires good blocking TEs, not passcatchers...
It was the 5th rounder, but I agree. We actually need to find a Chris Baker to pair with Keller. Hartsock can block, but he can't catch, neither can Mulligan.
My bad, knee jerk reaction. I see the last pick and I assume it's a 7th rounder. The Jets need a Lee Smith(Best Block/Catch), Charlie Gantt, or Andre Smith(Best blocker) type TE. Not a athletic type, but one that maul people and allow the Jets to keep the extra OL on the sideline, while giving Sanchez a safety valve to dump off to...
The ability to run two TE sets, where both TE's are a threat to go out in the pattern is going to become the next big thing in the NFL.. This also would provide leverage against Keller if the kid has a big rookie season. If you spend a 5th on a kid that not only makes the team, but can makes some plays, its a hell of a draft pick. Our 5th rounder is only about 70 picks from UFDA status. Any one that sicks on our 53 is a plus at that point.
Look at the tandems, one is always a good/great blocker, that's basically why the 2 TE set is becoming popular, it covers up the lack of a complete TE by halving it into 2 players. If the Jets wanted another Keller out there, they would have put Cumberland on the field instead of Hardstock, Mulligan, Wayne Hunter, or Rob Turner. It's pretty obvious what they want out of the #2 TE...
Thats assuming Cumberland is, or going to become, a NFL clabier TE. To this point he has shown very little in that reguard. Not saying a rookie 5th rounder is going to be much better, but we aare arguing over a late round project vs a UDFA, things can really go anyway here. Again, its a copy cat league. The last fad that was very sucessful was the wildcat. Its falling out of favor now but many teams still run some version of it. This years big deal was the Two TE formations run by the Pats. It was scary successful with two rooks manning the TE position. I expect to see a lot more of it over the next couple years. Shotty, being the offensive genius he is, will attempt to copy this like he did with the wildcat. Two TE sets fit into our style of power running as much as anything, so it should be a good fit if the Jets find a second TE capable of running a route as well as blocking, even if thye are not as talented as keller.
But here's the thing, Graham is in the Keller mold, he's a big passcatcher, so pairing them up in a 2 TE set would be silly. At New England, Gronkowski and Hernandez are on completely different ends of the spectrum when it comes to TEs. If it were 2 Hernandezes out there, it would be a lousy running set, if it were 2 Gronkowskis, it would lack a big play threat. The Jets have a "Hernandez"(Keller), but need a "Gronkowski"(???), drafting Cam Graham would give the Jets another "Hernandez", so the need for a "Gronkowski" would still stand...
How so? you have two talented TEs that cause match up problems, They cant over defend Keller (like they did this year) because we will have another player that can do similar things on the other side of the field. Keller will benefit from having another pass catching threat at the TE position just like Edwards benefits from having Holmes on the field. You cant double cover both of them. IMO having Turner out there to block is better than having a blocking TE. Hernandez had 3 more catches than Gronkowski, but Gronkowski had 4 more TDs. They are both better pass catchers than blocking TE IMO
Because they are the same style, you don't field 2 of the same for a 2 TE set, the whole purpose of it is to have 2 different styles of TEs on the field. Add the fact that the Jets are a power running team, this isn't the Colts, there is no need for yet another receiving TE, they need a TE who is great at blocking, who has decent hands. Having Turner out there to block would be better than having a receiving TE out there too. Is it not completely obvious that the Jets want blocking out of there 2nd TE by sending in an extra lineman? If they wanted a receiving threat, they would have Cumberland out there. But they don't... And you are dead wrong on Gronk, he is a great blocker who is a big redzone target, which the the Jets don't have at TE. Hernandez is the mismatch with good speed that you can flex out, but isn't a great blocker, nor is he a big 6-5 TE you can target in the redzone, same with Keller.
That's equivalent to saying if the Jets wanted some speed off the edge at OLB they would have Gholston out there. Just because Gholston is fast and Cumberland can catch the football in training camp doesn't mean shit. Sanchez is going to be throwing the ball more and more. He has proven he can make all the throws, just needs to be more consistent. When Sanchez becomes more consistent (I believe next year he will make that leap) we will no longer be a power running team. If you look at our 09 offensive to our 10 offense they are different in many ways. We were all about ground and pound in 09 and this year we started to break away from that a little bit. That gap from a power running team to a team that's going to throw it on you all day is only going to get bigger each year with Sanchez.
Then why waste a draft pick for something that is in theory, not fact? Sanchez is improving, but the offense is never gonna be an Air Raid offense, the running game will still be heavily involved in the offense. You get away from running the ball, you can get bottled up, unless you happen to have one of the greatest QBs of all time, which clearly isn't Sanchize. And my point still stands, you don't pick the same type TEs for a 2 TE set, defeats the purpose of fielding 2, regardless if the Jets shift more to passing. For every Owen Daniels, there is a Joel Dreessen, for every Greg Olson, there is a Brandon Manumaleuna, for every Bo Scaife, there is a Craig Stevens, etc... The Texans, Titans, Broncos, and Eagles didn't draft Anthony Hill, Craig Stevens, Richard Quinn, or Clay Harbor respectively with 4th round picks or earlier for their receiving prowess, they drafted them to be there blocking #2 TE. All of them had entrenched pass catchers at TE. The Chargers didn't trade for Brandon Manumaleuna to supplant Antonio Gates, but to pick up his slack blocking, nor did the Bears give him a five-year, $15 million deal ($6.1 guaranteed) contract to catch passes in Mike Martz's offense.
