Based on his film, I'm not sure how we can be overly excited about the kid. Sure, it's cool to watch him destroy people on special teams, but that a good football player does not make. His frame and athleticism give us room for optimism about his upside as a DE, but otherwise, tough to jump up for joy for this type of kid, especially in what was supposed to be a small class of carefully selected elite kids.
You know why it's good to be excited about this guy?
He's 6'4" 230-240lbs, runs a 4.5 40 time and seems to play that fast. Do we currently have any linebackers that big and that fast? E.J. maybe, Perryman maybe after he puts on another 10 pounds. Looks to have real good hands so he won't be dropping many interceptions. Most importantly this kid seems to be a real football player, not just an athlete running nowhere real fast like so many of our former and some of our current players.
He seems to find the ball whether it's on defense or offense.
Don't disregard those wicked blocks he makes. Those blocks display that this kid gets it. His football I.Q. seems to be pretty high. Now it may just be the case that he was bigger, stronger, faster and meaner than anybody or any 4 wedge blockers he destroyed in High School, and if that's the case, fine with me.
He's the kind of guy we need and seems to be the kind of guy that Golden gravitates towards.
Big, strong, fast and mean has been the staple of Miami Football since Howard. We seemed to have only looked for the guys with the star popularity in the past 10 years and gotten away from big, strong, fast mean mother****ers with a chip on their shoulders the size of cinder blocks.
Time to get back to what made us great.
