Josey Jewell

[Mingo]

One of my favorite gets in the draft last year. He played a lot last year and certainly plugged the run and made tackles, but he did get picked on in coverage. Conventional wisdom seems to be that he is too slow for the Fangio defenses - based on Fangio's history with inside Lbs. This is certainly an easy observation to make based on past facts.

However, if Jewell has only zone responsibilities in coverage (unlike last year) he is actually very good in coverage due to his reflexes and instincts as a football player. The other value Jewell has in a Fangio defense is his ability to rush the passer up the middle.

My thought is the mad scientist in Fangio can build a defense around Jewell in the middle - using Jackson and Cravens (possibly Simmons as well) - in a rover LB roll - the gives the side line to side line good tackler this defense requires for cleanup - when the offense executes a blocking mismatch.

Anyone else see Jewell fitting in with the Fangio defense?

 

[listopencil]

I don't know. I think with Jewell in there we'd get killed by 2WR/2TE/1RB sets.

 

[58crash]

NFL Draft & Combine Profile - Josey Jewell | NFL.com

 

[Draft Crazy]

I think we will find him a role in certain situations and special teams.

 

[Duffman]

He could be a special teams captain for years to come, like a Keith Burns type player.

 

[Mingo]

NFL Draft & Combine Profile - Josey Jewell | NFL.com

The 3 cone drill just jumps out at you. Anything under 7 seconds is very fast for Dbacks - WRs and RBs. This is why Jewell can cover in the short zone very well. Wake up peoples.

 

[CEH]

IDK, Maybe offensive coordinators will call plays when he’s on the field that requires him to cover more then his blood circle.

 

[58crash]

He is on every tackle. He makes up being slow by being 99% able to track the football at all times. I do know that this coach from all I read make stuff like that work for him just fine so We will see I guess.

My guess is he will be a heavy rotation at least.