Rover ~ Jordan Richards ~ Stanford Cardinal 5016/210
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
Processing Speed: Marginal.
Run Defense: Mediocre.
Pass Coverage: Marginal.
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!!
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None of this is even remotely a Complaint, mind you, but rather a Warning!! Caveat Emptor!!