BradyBranch39
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My binky pick is Jurrell Casey. This kid is being overlooked big time. This man is a mountain in the Wilfork mold. Non-stop motor, great attitude, a rock at the line, great hands, and a player who can shed a double-team to stop a run is something you can never discount.
BB has said that you can never have enough pure NT, and if we get this kid, Wilfork can swing out to end more often. We could snag him in the early goings of round 2.
YouTube - USC DT #91 Jurrell Casey Highlights 2010
To my eyes, no. He weighed in 19 lbs lighter and generated 2.5" less leg drive in the vertical. On my TV he didn't wow me, he's serviceable, which is why I see him as a platoon player for a Tampa-2 team.Is Casey another version of Pryor?
To my eyes, no. He weighed in 19 lbs lighter and generated 2.5" less leg drive in the vertical. On my TV he didn't wow me, he's serviceable, which is why I see him as a platoon player for a Tampa-2 team.
Blocking out the prevailing noise and forming his own opinions has always been a strength of Razzano's. When I asked him to name an off-the-radar player in this year's draft that he regards as a potential Pro Bowl performer, his eyes lit up excitedly.
"There's a defensive tackle at USC named Jurrell Casey , and he's the protypical nose [tackle]," Razzano said. "He's like another Michael Carter, who we got in the fifth round in San Francisco – one of the all-time steals. I see he's rated as the ninth-best defensive tackle. If they do a [mock] re-draft in a few years, he'll be a top-seven pick."
Razzano showed me some tape of Casey from last year's game against Cal, and the visual evidence was impressive.
"Watch him split the double-team here," Razzano said as Casey burst between the Bears' center and left guard. "Look at that nasty explosiveness. I'm telling you, it's [like the Pittsburgh Steelers '] Casey Hampton (notes) . He has short-area quickness and enough of a motor to satisfy me. You have to realize, defensive linemen don't all have great work ethic. That's why they're big. But [Jurrell Casey's] a naturally explosive guy, and they're hard to find."
Yup, fun article. Now show me which system this guy is projecting Casey into. 3-4? 4-3? One-gap? Two-gap? Is he a better fit in Philadelphia or Chicago? Casey Hampton is listed at 325 on NFL.com, Vince Wilfork is listed at 325, Kyle Love played reserve NT for NE last season at 310. Jurrell Casey is underweight by the standards of the 3-4, but 300 will work for the 1-shade used by 4-3 teams as their "NT."
Overlooked? I find that hard to believe of a USC kid. First, I'd be willing to bet that every NFL team has a furnished apartment right outside the stadium at Pasadena for their scouts during the season. This is one of the most highly recruited/scouted teams in all of college football and there isn't a game in the last 20+ years that players haven't been glamorized and scrutinized by NFL scouts. We're not talking Appalachian St or Northwest Missouri where a player can sometimes get lost in the shuffle or be under scouted coming from a small school. If you look at the draft classes over the years you will find there aren't too many USC kids that slipped through the cracks so to speak.
I think he does well in a 43 defense. I highly doubt he has the feet and strength to be a 34 NT. If he did he would be in the conversation with Phil Taylor and Kenrick Ellis.