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.....more like an oddity than eye popping news, but I just didn't know what thread to put it under, so I started a new one.
At any rate it was something I caught over at Pats Pulpit and thought it was interesting when put with other facts. The blurb was about a CB who I didn't even know was on the roster, someone named Quadre Mosely.
The article was standard fare about him needing a huge 2nd year jump to make the roster....and then it mentioned something that caught my eye. The kid is 6'2 and ran a 4.32 forty. And THAT made me go hmm. Because we already have TWO other young CB's (Boldin and the aptly named Speed) who are ALSO 6'2 or over AND have run 4.3 forties.
Now NONE of these kids are eye popping CB prospects, but they are definitely working with size and speed combinations that at least on paper make them intriguing if only as individuals, but there are freaking THREE of them. (actually 4 of them when you add Gonzales)
You'd like to think that the organization that has brought us the UDFA likes of Butler, Jackson, JJones, etc could turn at least ONE of these guys into a serviceable CB down the road.
Well camp is just a few weeks down the road and when the team breaks into individual groups there are going to be a LOT of tall fast CB's heading over to their drills. This is especially interesting to me since the Pats have long been the primary breeding ground for midget CB's in the league. Marcus Jones is going to demand a seat up front in the meeting room with these giants if he is going to be able to see the chalkboard.
At any rate it was something I caught over at Pats Pulpit and thought it was interesting when put with other facts. The blurb was about a CB who I didn't even know was on the roster, someone named Quadre Mosely.
The article was standard fare about him needing a huge 2nd year jump to make the roster....and then it mentioned something that caught my eye. The kid is 6'2 and ran a 4.32 forty. And THAT made me go hmm. Because we already have TWO other young CB's (Boldin and the aptly named Speed) who are ALSO 6'2 or over AND have run 4.3 forties.
Now NONE of these kids are eye popping CB prospects, but they are definitely working with size and speed combinations that at least on paper make them intriguing if only as individuals, but there are freaking THREE of them. (actually 4 of them when you add Gonzales)
You'd like to think that the organization that has brought us the UDFA likes of Butler, Jackson, JJones, etc could turn at least ONE of these guys into a serviceable CB down the road.
Well camp is just a few weeks down the road and when the team breaks into individual groups there are going to be a LOT of tall fast CB's heading over to their drills. This is especially interesting to me since the Pats have long been the primary breeding ground for midget CB's in the league. Marcus Jones is going to demand a seat up front in the meeting room with these giants if he is going to be able to see the chalkboard.