Dolphins summon yet another interesting safety to team headquarters
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After bringing in so many great prospects, Miami better not draft ****ty players
I have Nacua as a late-2nd RD Safety. He's big, instinctive, extremely fluid and athletic, with sound tackling, and excellent ball skills. He ended at least two games with INT's (Boise St in 2015 and Wyoming in 2016). I have him in my top 64. I would like to know how old he is, but based on what I can tell, he's not older than 23. He'd be an excellent value at 97 and an absolute steal in the 5th. Shaq Griffin should be listed as a CB, not a Safety, but of the Safeties Miami has brought in, Nacua is the best FS prospect - with Melifonwu and Jones the best SS prospects.
Nacua will show up on the Defensive version of J-Off Pounds the Table. I hoped to post it last night, but I celebrated 4/20 with a root canal, so I was a little low energy. Should be up tonight. Quick observation: while this class is extremely deep and talented at CB and S, most of the CB's are appropriately ranked, so I only have three CB's (one of them is Shaq Griffin) as outstanding values (relative to their media rankings). S, though, is still being underrated, and I have six - debating whether or not to cut it to five - on the list.
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Any help for Jones would be appreciated. The man has been holding it down and fighting his ass off back there.
After bringing in so many great prospects, Miami better not draft ****ty players
I have Nacua as a late-2nd RD Safety. He's big, instinctive, extremely fluid and athletic, with sound tackling, and excellent ball skills. He ended at least two games with INT's (Boise St in 2015 and Wyoming in 2016). I have him in my top 64. I would like to know how old he is, but based on what I can tell, he's not older than 23. He'd be an excellent value at 97 and an absolute steal in the 5th. Shaq Griffin should be listed as a CB, not a Safety, but of the Safeties Miami has brought in, Nacua is the best FS prospect - with Melifonwu and Jones the best SS prospects.
Nacua will show up on the Defensive version of J-Off Pounds the Table. I hoped to post it last night, but I celebrated 4/20 with a root canal, so I was a little low energy. Should be up tonight. Quick observation: while this class is extremely deep and talented at CB and S, most of the CB's are appropriately ranked, so I only have three CB's (one of them is Shaq Griffin) as outstanding values (relative to their media rankings). S, though, is still being underrated, and I have six - debating whether or not to cut it to five - on the list.
Josh Jones is a FS is he not?,
He played both strong and free safety. They also used him a LB.
He has the speed and range to play FS, but his instincts deep are just OK, and he's best coming down hill. He'd definitely work next to R. Jones in Miami's interchangeable D, but I think Nacua would serve as a better contrast to Jones' game, and would allow Miami to play more Cover 3.
After bringing in so many great prospects, Miami better not draft ****ty players
I have Nacua as a late-2nd RD Safety. He's big, instinctive, extremely fluid and athletic, with sound tackling, and excellent ball skills. He ended at least two games with INT's (Boise St in 2015 and Wyoming in 2016). I have him in my top 64. I would like to know how old he is, but based on what I can tell, he's not older than 23. He'd be an excellent value at 97 and an absolute steal in the 5th. Shaq Griffin should be listed as a CB, not a Safety, but of the Safeties Miami has brought in, Nacua is the best FS prospect - with Melifonwu and Jones the best SS prospects.
Nacua will show up on the Defensive version of J-Off Pounds the Table. I hoped to post it last night, but I celebrated 4/20 with a root canal, so I was a little low energy. Should be up tonight. Quick observation: while this class is extremely deep and talented at CB and S, most of the CB's are appropriately ranked, so I only have three CB's (one of them is Shaq Griffin) as outstanding values (relative to their media rankings). S, though, is still being underrated, and I have six - debating whether or not to cut it to five - on the list.
I know this doesn't help much but he did graduate from Nevada's Liberty High School in 2013.
I think it's pretty helpful. That was the only thing I could find on his age, too. It lets us know that he's probably 22 or 23 at the oldest - unless he flunked somewhere K-12.
They will. It was a bad look and my biggest knock on Nacua as a prospect. Super talent.
Im excited by his INT numbers you think 3rd round hes there?
Media is projecting him as a 7th-UDFA, so I think he's almost certainly there at 97 and potentially in the 5th.
Why so low if he's such a good prospect
Guessing it's because he's most known by the fight and doesn't receive as much coverage. His SPARQ is in the top 5% of NFL Safeties, he has 14 career INT's, and PFF rated him as their 5th-best Safety (as the article notes) in 2016. He's a big dude, too. Said it on his ranking summary, but he reminds me some of Darren Sharper. Of course, I'm not saying he'll have THAT kind of career, but he has similar traits and physical tools. Can't mention Sharper without saying **** that rapist asshole, and I bring him up only as a player comp.