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Senior Bowl

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15 hours ago, ECUPantherFan said:

Zay Jones breaking more ankles at the Senior Bowl... 

Your boy looks like he saved his best for last to cap off a great week of practice. Source: http://draftanalyst.com/

Zay Jones/WR/Eastern Washington: Jones had a great final day of practice Thursday to cap an excellent week. He won at all levels of the field and showed the ability to run the entire route tree, scoring touchdowns on slants, post-corners and nine routes among others. He doesn’t have great speed but runs sharp routes, wins out in contested situations and adjusts well to errant passes. He was consistently good during each practice and did a lot for himself in Mobile.

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18 hours ago, ECUPantherFan said:

Zay Jones breaking more ankles at the Senior Bowl... 

 

 

That's a fringe 1st round/early 2nd round at worst corner in Desmond King he killed.

 Anyone who dreamed of stealing Jones in the middle rounds can forget it. He's working himself into late 2nd round territory. 

Only thing that could hurt his stock now is if he runs a horrid 40(some teams have always put to much on it and reached for prospects)

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We would have picked Eifert at 15. Howard appears to be a better prospect than Eifert was, so I think people shouldn't write him off as not worthy of our pick. 

Out of all the offensive players available at 8, Howard's only competition will be Fournette. There are no OTs at that level, Cook won't be a Panther, we aren't drafting a WR. If we go offense, it's OJ or Fournette.

This could be even more likely after FA. I think we sign a vet SS and OT. We're looking at a S and OT at one of our picks in rounds 2 and 3 to compete/develop.

I think that even though we're a running offense we won't pick RB in round 1, but maybe that will be one of the 3 picks in rounds 2-3.

If Howard can block AND pass catch, I think his value to our offense is much higher than would be given credit for. He would be a pick to protect Cam and a talent at one of our most productive positions on offense. Shula wants the two TEs, it fits what Rivera wants with evolution because it gives us the flexibility of a 2 TE set for extra blocking or pass catching. This makes our offense less predictable and gives us a piece to attack delayed blitzes. It also puts us in good shape for a future without Olsen, which is fast approaching.

I still like the top two safeties because adding one of those is the key to improving our defense. Ron would have picked Barron over Luke. Look at Eric Weddle. Ron's top choices for D Coordinator were former DBs who likely are very capable of coaching up smart talented ones. Roman Harper's leadership and intelligence in the back was one of our most missing pieces on defense this year. Safety is one of our top priorities.

If they draft a DE I'd be ok with it but not as excited.

I truly think our top priorities are S and TE.

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2 hours ago, stirs said:

This guys standouts from a week of practice

http://gbnreport.com/senior-bowl-practice-team-2/

He isn't wrong, I didn't see a lot that I liked from KState's Willis and would sub him with Basham. But his top OL and WR picks were spot on Kalis will be a good guard in the NFL, Banner outplayed the other tackles no matter how strange his 6'9" 360 lb frame looked. Banner impressed me because he played to his strengths and protected his inside forcing players around him. He was so long that one punch either stoned the rush or forced the end to rotate around the pocket. I will say that undersized LB Hassan Reddick ducked under his punch once and "sacked" QB in team drills. 

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33 minutes ago, ECUPantherFan said:

Zay Jones just doing what he does at the Senior Bowl....

1st catch was ruled no TD only because there is no instant replay at the Senior Bowl.  Would have been a TD in the NFL.

2nd got called back with a flag.

OH... and he's fast, too.

 

 

While I like Zay, I have a hunch you're a little biased towards him. Not sure why though...

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43 minutes ago, ECUPantherFan said:

Zay Jones just doing what he does at the Senior Bowl....

1st catch was ruled no TD only because there is no instant replay at the Senior Bowl.  Would have been a TD in the NFL.

2nd got called back with a flag.

OH... and he's fast, too.

 

I'd love to have him.

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