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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 657535">After you posted that comment I looked at that tape.  Yeah, his lines in the run game were off and his attack was tentative.  That might have been a function of SH State's heavy dose of spread option gadgetry.  And his tackling form was pretty atrocious, hitting high and grabbing a lot of shoulder pads.  He blew a dead-to-rights tackle at midfield on the last play on that tape, hitting high with the guy slipping away for what I guess was the winning TD.  Ouch.He's looked a lot better in the run game in other tape.  He might have gotten a little rip happy that day, without managing to force a fumble.  Very bad tackling grade in that game.It wasn't all bad.  He blocked a FG.  He had a big tackle for loss in the red zone later in the game.  And SH State, while a pretty bad passing team, only threw in his direction once on a deep end zone throw.  It was way off the mark, but he had good coverage.  He was doing a lot of signaling in the backfield; I presume he was trusted to make adjustment calls which suggests football smarts.  On the tweener spectrum, in this game anyway, the SS coverage component scored a lot higher than drop-in-box hybrid role.</blockquote>

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