Jordan Richards Scouting Report ~ 2015 NFL Draft

Rover ~ Jordan Richards ~ Stanford Cardinal 5016/210

Regarding RoverBacks

Rovers ~ RoverBack is my term for what Earthlings refer to as "Strong Safeties". I don't find the employment of "Safety" as a moniker for a Position to be nearly as demeaning as "LineBacker", mind you, but it's still a pretty lame term for a Gladiator, if you ask me. The Prototype would be somewhere around 6000/210, or thereabouts.

Rovers are of course Hybrids, in that they are tasked equally with Run Defense and Pass Defense.

When evaluating RoverBacks, this is how I break things down:

Agility: Acceleration, Ricochet, Fluidity, and Verticity ~ that's Turn & Burn Acuity, to you Earthlings!!

Processing Speed: How quickly and effectively one Reads & Reacts to the developing Play.

Run Defense: Power, Agility, Combat Skills, and Processing Speed.

Pass Coverage: Agility and Processing Speed.

Broken down into SubCategories, it'd go something like this:

Agility

* Fluidity, above all things: Core Agility & Flexibility makes everything possible.
* Ricochet ~ How crisply and how rapidly one breaks in a new direction.
* Acceleration ~ Short Speed or Quickness. Closing Speed.
* Verticity ~ The Ability ~ or lack thereof ~ to Flips Hips and Turn & Burn in Pass Coverage.

Processing Speed

* How quickly and effectively one Reads & Reacts to the developing Play.

Run Defense

* Power
* Agility
* Combat Skills
* Processing Speed

Pass Coverage

* Agility
* Processing Speed

Jordan Richards Scouting Report

Agility: Mediocre.

Processing Speed: Marginal.

Run Defense: Mediocre.

Pass Coverage: Marginal.

Jordan Richards Prospectus

Jordan Richards looks like a Special Teamer to me. He's an impressive, smart, hard-working kid and a Leader, but his Field Vision does not impress me, his Agility is UFA Grade, despite his Short Shuttle Time, and his Combat Skills, navigating Traffic and Tackling, are also mediocre, in my admittedly amateurish estimation.

I cannot for the life of me conceive what Bill The Mad (Genius) was thinking when he drafted Richards in the 2nd freaking Round, any more than I could when he did the same with Tavon Wilson in 2012. Mad Bill is brilliant, but I called that inexplicable move a foolish Mistake the day it was made, and I call this one precisely the same.

Having said that: He got drafted in the 2nd Round, so a Report is warranted, brief though it be.

Grateful Thanks, as always, for the crucial Work done by the folks at Draft BreakDown!!

Yank Rank: Scrapper ~ Par Value!!

Market Value

6th/7th Round

Yankee Grade

6th/7th Round

Please do Note: This and all Evaluations issued by this Site are produced by a ludicrously unqualified Amateur, privy to not even the tiniest fraction of Coach's Tape, Scouting Expertise, Face to Face Interviewing, Experience, or Inside Information enjoyed by the Professionals. As such, anything put forth is certainly misinformed, euphonious, derivative Tripe, and should be rejected out'f hand and indeed shunned by all men and women of Good Will!! I'm trying to discern Power, Agility, Combat Skills, and far more abstract, esoteric Concepts such as Processing Speed and Motor, and I'm trying to do so based almost entirely on a fascinating fusion of Tape, Combine Numbers, and Pro Days, while trying to attenuate my findings based on Allowances for Competition Level, Scheme, Concept, Context, and, above all: Trajectory!!

None of this is even remotely a Complaint, mind you, but rather a Warning!! Caveat Emptor!!