it might be interesting for someone to research back and find the 47 articles written by Cimini last season and this offseason on what a terrible draft mistake Tanny made in selecting Kyle Wilson and how much better Devin McCourty was in comparison
One media members struggle with the fact that he overreacted to Wilson's "slow start" and his subsequent attempt to pretend that him performing as expected is some sort of tale of redemption. Rookies are rookies. It's stupid to make assumptions about a player in his first three seasons. -X-
Is this true? Wilson ranks 49th this year? Jets coach Rex Ryan believes Kyle Wilson has rebounded from a rough rookie year to emerge as the NFL's best nickel back this season. "He's playing unbelievable for us and it's only going to get better," added Darrelle Revis. "He wants it. He wants to be great and he's on the way." Pro Football Focus has rated Wilson as the No. 49 NFL cornerback this year after he graded out 54th last season. If the Jets are so confident in Wilson, perhaps they'll leave him in the slot to cover Wes Welker this week. (from Rotoworld)
I think Wilson should actually grade out higher than 50-60% of starting cornerbacks based on his performance this year against some really good slot receivers and tight ends. From what I've seen of the NFL this year, there's a huge disparity between the good defensive backs and the awful defensive backs. Guys have either been really on point or flat-out terrible with very little in between. In my opinion, certain guys have cemented themselves as elite status this year-- Brandon Flowers, Joe Haden, and Corey Webster come to mind. Wilson is behind them, but not by that much. If he continues like this against the really challenging assignments he may run into in the coming weeks (Wes Welker, Brent Celek, Victor Cruz, Davone Bess again, Eddie Royal, etc.), then you gotta start considering him for upper echelon status.
possibly. but I believe that only grades on # of targets. Not how many snaps played vs. # of targets. Thats a huge difference between this year and last year, K-Dub may be allowing receptions when the ball is thrown his way, but he isn't having the ball thrown at him very often, because he is always in position. He has been fantastic, and thats far more important than anyway that he is graded numerically by the website.
