Highlights from Jackson article
• Kenyan Drake said his strained hamstring, sustained in a punt blocking drill the next-to-last day of minicamp, is not “major,” is quickly healing, and he will be fine for football activities long before the start of training camp.
• Receiver Leonte Carroo, who made a favorable impression on everyone in the team’s offseason program, said his first priority is losing eight pounds.
Jakeem Grant, an accomplished kickoff returner at Texas Tech, never returned a punt in college but said he’s quickly getting the hang of it. And special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi agreed during a recent media session.Grant said he has fielded “over 1000 punts” since the start of the offseason program (though that sounds awfully high) and that he has dropped only two “because I took my eyes off it.”
• Seventh-round tight end Thomas Duarte faces major challenges: He missed a month of practices while taking classes at UCLA. And in the preseason opener, he will be asked to do something he has never done in a game: inline blocking.
• Jordan Lucas, the seventh-round pick out of Penn State, said he got work both on the boundary and in the slot over the past month.
Lucas is immersed in a competitive battle with Ifo Ekpre-Olomu and Tyler Patmon for the backup nickel job behind likely starter Bobby McCain.
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• Kenyan Drake said his strained hamstring, sustained in a punt blocking drill the next-to-last day of minicamp, is not “major,” is quickly healing, and he will be fine for football activities long before the start of training camp.
• Receiver Leonte Carroo, who made a favorable impression on everyone in the team’s offseason program, said his first priority is losing eight pounds.
Jakeem Grant, an accomplished kickoff returner at Texas Tech, never returned a punt in college but said he’s quickly getting the hang of it. And special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi agreed during a recent media session.Grant said he has fielded “over 1000 punts” since the start of the offseason program (though that sounds awfully high) and that he has dropped only two “because I took my eyes off it.”
• Seventh-round tight end Thomas Duarte faces major challenges: He missed a month of practices while taking classes at UCLA. And in the preseason opener, he will be asked to do something he has never done in a game: inline blocking.
• Jordan Lucas, the seventh-round pick out of Penn State, said he got work both on the boundary and in the slot over the past month.
Lucas is immersed in a competitive battle with Ifo Ekpre-Olomu and Tyler Patmon for the backup nickel job behind likely starter Bobby McCain.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/spor...drake-carroo-duarte-scott-lucas-and-more.html
