New York Jets@nyjets With the 195th pick we've selected CB Brandon Dixon. Welcome him to the Green & White! #NFLDraft pic.twitter.com/oaEN4Fp67a
Another CB is never a bad thing with our core group of players at the moment. These last two rounds are a crapshoot. Hope we get a punter
Sounds like a good developmental project, high ceiling, will probably take a year or two to see the field.
fellow Jet fan said he watched him play because he lived in that area and said he dominated at that level of play, should have been a D1 athlete but had grade issues.
Says he's a press corner, which fits our scheme..... At this point in the draft it's a guessing game.
Draft profile from NFL.com OVERVIEW 2013: First-team Division II All-American selection and first-team All-MAIAA pick. Played in and started 14 games. Missed game against Emporia State. Held Jeff Janis of Saginaw Valley State to three receptions for 49 yards in 45-24 win while also returning a fumble 70 yards for a touchdown on a field goal attempt. 2012: Third-team Division II All-American and second-team All-MAIAA pick. Started all 13 games. 2011: At Joliet Junior College, was a first-team all-conference pick. 2010: At Joliet Junior College. Misc.: Played with his brother Brian Dixon at both Joliet Junior College and Northwest Missouri State. They were the starting corners at Northwest Missouri State. ANALYSIS STRENGTHS Excellent size, musculature and body length. Nice balance and body control. Quick-footed to mirror off the line. Can flip his hips and run vertically. Good plant-and-drive quickness. Willing to step up and throw his weight around in run support. Has special-teams experience. Tough and durable. Competitive and motivated. WEAKNESSES Has small hands. Lacks elite explosion and top-end speed. Ordinary leaping ability and ball skills to contend with taller high fliers. Faulty diagnostic skills -- processes slowly and reacts more than he anticipates. Gets caught squatting and peeking. Inconsistent tackler. Poor football aptitude -- requires extra reps to grasp complicated assignments. BOTTOM LINE Big, athletic, Division II standout and JUCO product whose size, length and physicality will appeal to teams in search of a developmental press corner. Could also be viewed as a potential safety conversion, but does not exhibit requisite instincts and dependability as a tackler. -Nolan Nawrocki
Seems intriguing, we'll see what he can do when football is his entire life. Probably not the case at a DII school.
He had the 5th best 40 time of all CBs with a 4.45 That, combined with his size and good arm length, is reason alone to draft him altogether, let alone in the 6th round. I like the athletes and charater guys we are getting. I'm not a fan of the last two 6th round selections - undersized DE and Tajh Boyd. But the others are solid and I love the first 3 rounds.
Boyd was picked because of his play style..... All 3 of our qb's play the same way. So no matter who the qb is our strategy won't change. The DE is probably going to play OLB.
