{"id":2136,"date":"2016-12-20T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2016-12-20T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:52:59","slug":"nfl-analyst-impressed-derek-barnetts-pass-coverage-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2016\/12\/20\/nfl-analyst-impressed-derek-barnetts-pass-coverage-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Analyst impressed by Derek Barnett&#8217;s pass coverage &#8212; wait, what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL analyst Mike Mayock has been watching film on Tennessee superstar defensive end <strong>Derek Barnett &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>who will likely [definitely] enter the upcoming NFL Draft in April &#8212; and discovered a play of him covering a receiver on a fade route 24 yards downfield.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WOW play by Derek Barnett..RB motions and Barnett bumps out on WR-not planned !! Covers him 24 yds downfield vs fade- RARE..premier edge guy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MtkfxnIWng\">pic.twitter.com\/MtkfxnIWng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Mayock (@MikeMayock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeMayock\/status\/811229203723063300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Barnett has continually proven he&#8217;s a &#8220;premier edge guy&#8221; since he first stepped on campus in 2014. Bruce Feldman agrees.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Been a fantastic player for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vols?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Vols<\/a> for 3 years. Showed up against top OTs as a TF &amp; has been a great leader for UT ever since. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vj7hDKShOj\">https:\/\/t.co\/vj7hDKShOj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BruceFeldmanCFB\/status\/811235556520640517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballfocus.com\/draft-college-football-garrett-browns-watson-49ers-2017-pff-mock-draft\/\">mock draft from Pro Football Focus<\/a> has the Chicago Bears drafting Barnett with the No. 4 pick.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>4. Chicago Bears: Derek Barnett, Edge, Tennessee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Barnett may not have the classic edge rusher look that Garrett possesses, the two true juniors have had similar production since coming into the SEC in 2014. Barnett is strong against the run and his 92.3 pass-rush grade ranked second among edge defenders. Even in Chicago\u2019s 3-4 scheme, there\u2019s room for Barnett to play some outside linebacker on the edge while rushing the passer in subpackages. Even with Chicago spending their first-round pick on edge defender Leonard Floyd last year, they shouldn\u2019t shy away from Barnett who adds even more potential star power to the front-seven.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/walterfootball.com\/draft2017.php\">Walter Football mock draft<\/a>\u00a0has the Saints drafting Barnett with the No. 8 pick. Know of any other recent draft projections for Derek Barnett? Leave them in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL analyst Mike Mayock has been watching film on Tennessee superstar defensive end Derek Barnett &#8212;\u00a0who will likely [definitely] enter the upcoming NFL Draft in April &#8212; and discovered a play of him covering a receiver on a fade route 24 yards downfield. WOW play by Derek Barnett..RB motions and Barnett bumps out on WR-not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,126],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennessee-vols-football","tag-2017-nfl-draft","tag-derek-barnett"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/files\/2016\/12\/derek-barnett-tennessee.jpg?fit=669%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}