Jake Bequette earns practice player of the week (w/ Edelman, Forston, Francis, Salas)
 

Along with Julian Edelman, Greg Salas, Marcus Forston, Justin Francis

Bequette earns practice honor - New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston

He was productive in the SEC last year, Nink is doing a good job right now but I'd like to see what this kid can do.

re: Jake Bequette earns practice player of the week (w/ Edelman, Forston, Francis, Salas)
 

Our JJ Watts? No racism intent, mainly based on height and speed. In fact, was clocked faster on 40 time than Watts, but Watt has a solid 20 pound weight over him

re: Jake Bequette earns practice player of the week (w/ Edelman, Forston, Francis, Salas)
 

And is a LOT more explosive.

Hey, it's a positive in what is turning out to be a very unimpressive first year for a 3rd round pick. Lets see where he is next year and the year after that.

re: Jake Bequette earns practice player of the week (w/ Edelman, Forston, Francis, Salas)
 

JJ Watt is a once in a decade guy. That's really all there is to say about him.

I wouldn't rule Bequette out this year, but the reason he isn't seeing the field is more who is in front of him and less his own lack of progress. Physically, he is capable of everything Ninkovich and Cunningham are doing, but he is behind the curve by 2 years or more with them. Francis finally saw some time this week. Maybe Bequette wanders out there in a subpackage against the Rams.

re: Jake Bequette earns practice player of the week (w/ Edelman, Forston, Francis, Salas)
 

I would love to see it. He would definitely make some mistakes when it comes to setting the edge against the run, overpursuit on screens, etc. He's a rookie. But this kid looks like an absolute beat of a player in the making. My hope coming into the season was that, at some point, he could beat out Ninkovich. This would be a good start...

re: Jake Bequette earns practice player of the week (w/ Edelman, Forston, Francis, Salas)
 

Without going back and looking at every thread in the draft forum, I don't remember how much time you spent there in the offseason, Kontra, but there were a lot of guys who were beating their chest for Bequette (you could have been one of them). He's reportedly a sharp guy, and his agility drills were good enough for people to consider him a possibility at the 3-4 olb at 6-5 270. The mental and physical tools are there to be the ideal guy opposite Jones, but that's not what he did with the Piggies.

A bull rush 4-3 DE in college has one job, and I could see Bequette struggling to exercise those demons and convert himself to the read and react type BB wants. The red jersey could be a hint that he is coming along, but again, I don't think BB feels like there is any hurry because his offseason lovechild (Cunningham), his draft binky (Jones), and his Mr. Everything lovechild (Nink) stand in front of him. If Hightower or Mayo go down, and Nink slides back to a more permanent LB role, we could see Bequette in that spot.

re: Jake Bequette earns practice player of the week (w/ Edelman, Forston, Francis, Salas)
 

Didn't Steve Maneri and Markell Carter get that honor shortly before they were released?

re: Jake Bequette earns practice player of the week (w/ Edelman, Forston, Francis, Salas)
 

I liked him in college as well, but practice player of the week as his pinnacle of achievement this far into the season isn't what I was expecting from a 3rd rounder. No disrespect intended, but any mention of Watt and Bequette in the same sentence is as premature as it can get.

re: Jake Bequette earns practice player of the week (w/ Edelman, Forston, Francis, Salas)
 

Great news for Front 7 Dept...now only if someone can standout in our Defensive Secondary...come on Ras-I Dowling morph into shutdown CB.

re: Jake Bequette earns practice player of the week (w/ Edelman, Forston, Francis, Salas)
 

I think if Ras-I Dowling needs to morph into an on-field CB first.