PFF grades Vol defensive players

#3
#3
Random observations:
- Josephs, Pearce, and McCoy graded as good as they looked
- surprised ONL did not grade higher
- I was expecting a little more from our LBs this year
- good to see Simmons go out with a pretty good season
I wish Simmons had lived up to the glamour shots with the chains when he committed.
 
#5
#5
1. Agreed
2. He and OT are both splash players who play really vertical. They both really struggle as a double team. In a 3-4 in the NFL they could both end up as ends and look to be better suited in that role.
3. He was always physically limited in some ways. He is really strong but has short arms. He is quick but not fast. He plays high. He plays hard. He is really more of a traditional 0 technique that did not play that as much here.

I loved this DL group. The staff did a good job of putting the pieces together to let each player maximize their strengths.

Random observations:
- Josephs, Pearce, and McCoy graded as good as they looked
- surprised ONL did not grade higher
- I was expecting a little more from our LBs this year
- good to see Simmons go out with a pretty good season
 
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#6
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Is no one gonna mention Boo's score? Just gonna act like that didn't happen? Only one person with at least 250 snaps scored lower than him (Turrentine)
 
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Is no one gonna mention Boo's score? Just gonna act like that didn't happen? Only one person with at least 250 snaps scored lower than him (Turrentine)
Boo was a stud and looked amazing IMO. Acting like the guy was a liability is laughable
 
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#15
Wow! Didn’t realize that Jalen Smith took the 3rd most snaps at LB. The transfer portal is a depth killer…
How transfer was probably NIL related if he had the 3rd most snaps at the LB position. He be watching from afar and what it could have been next season we in the playoffs again.
 
#16
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Boo was a stud and looked amazing IMO. Acting like the guy was a liability is laughable
who said he was a liability? I said no one mentioned his PFF score was very low. If it was someone else people would be all over it. It is something noteworthy and interesting. I wish i had a PFF account to dig more into it but if I were to guess it was pass coverage that hurt him. Boo was very good at star for us but people are hyping the kid like he's the next Eric Berry and that's very unfair to him.
 
#17
#17
Wow! Didn’t realize that Jalen Smith took the 3rd most snaps at LB. The transfer portal is a depth killer…
That was why I was saying the biggest hits we took in the portal were Jenkins and Smith. Smith was the main backup at both LB positions and was the 'coverage' backer.
 
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who said he was a liability? I said no one mentioned his PFF score was very low. If it was someone else people would be all over it. It is something noteworthy and interesting. I wish i had a PFF account to dig more into it but if I were to guess it was pass coverage that hurt him. Boo was very good at star for us but people are hyping the kid like he's the next Eric Berry and that's very unfair to him.
He moves different from everyone else back there. You can even see it in his back pedal drills, he’s not Eric Berry but he’s a future NFL player. The kid defeated the odds, he played a major role as a true Frosh under Josh Heupel
 
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That was why I was saying the biggest hits we took in the portal were Jenkins and Smith. Smith was the main backup at both LB positions and was the 'coverage' backer.
The kid ran like he had tennis rackets tied to his cleats, we’ll be ok. If Spillman never got hurt he would’ve never played as much, soon as Spillman was good to go Smith reps dropped immediately. Which I’m sure played a major role in him leaving.
 
#20
#20
That was why I was saying the biggest hits we took in the portal were Jenkins and Smith. Smith was the main backup at both LB positions and was the 'coverage' backer.
Yea, depth in the future will be you’re 4/5 star starter backed up by a hot shot freshman/RS freshman guy…all the solid backup guys will portal out if they aren’t starting or getting enough NIL money
 

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