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CB D’yoni Hill commits to Miami

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Memnon said:
Tall long armed kid with good technique, natural skills, exemplary footwork & route IQ.

Started opposite of Micah Abraham as a True Sophomore last season & put up good numbers with 55tks 10PD's & 1INT. Played mostly as a Boundary, but also had a few snaps at Nickel & Field.

He's another Chevis Jackson kid who excelled early under his tutelage, much like Karon Prunty, Cobee Bryant Mello Dotson & others. Had a good coverage grade with his best games being against, NC ST, Old Dominion, App ST, JMU, G-ST, G-Southern & Ark ST. He's also very good against the run with an exceptionally high 80+ percentile run defender grade as a CB. Which means he did very well coming up in run support & laying a hat on somebody & from watching his games, he was most of the time in pursuit from the Boundary side, which means most of those tackles in run support were effort plays on back side cutbacks.

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From a technical aspect, he displayed advanced level technique & awareness for a kid starting his first season.

He does a really a good job utilizing his one/two-hand jam to keep his man in front of him & stifle routes. He completely disrupts the rhythm & timing of the release in order to intercede the stem while reshuffling his feet to break on the ball.

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Another thing he does really well is play with outside leverage. He walls the WR & presses to the inside hip to once again slow down & re-route before the stem not allowing for the WR to stack'em & get up field. And in the instances where he has to play to towards the outside shoulder of the WR coming over top he displays active hands making a play on the ball while not being grabby.

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Overall, this is very good add. He can play Press Man, Off coverage in Quarters & understands how to stay within the pocket to keep from getting beat immediately off the release. He's got good physicality at the line & has enough recovery speed to get back to the ball on in breaking routes, curls, comebacks etc.. He also adds another Corner to the group that allows for flexibility to move Mesh Powell to Free Safety & can put DP JR at Nickel in certain packages.

This is an upgrade over Ja'Dais Richard & Damari Brown, plus with his familiarity with Chevis teaching & Guidreaux's Defense, he'll be able to seamlessly transition without too much of a steep learning curve.

Great pickup!
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posts like this are very fullfilling
 
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This kid is going to play a lot for us. Maybe he takes the starting boundary spot or maybe he’s the nickel but when his former DC and position coach grab him from the portal it’s because they know he’s good enough to start here.
 
DTP said:
This kid is going to play a lot for us. Maybe he takes the starting boundary spot or maybe he’s the nickel but when his former DC and position coach grab him from the portal it’s because they know he’s good enough to start here.
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Seems like more of a boundary to me but if he could lock down the slot we would be golden. That would allow Powell to kick back to safety and help solidify the entire secondary.
 
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LuCane said:
Could also allow Porter to slide inside to Nickel/slot.
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No shot at you here, just have seen this mentioned a few different times about who can play nickel and where the pieces will fall in the secondary.

DPj is going to have to be the field CB this year, and play a good majority of the snaps at that spot, which is a tall task. That, in my opinion, is the most important CB spot on the field. It won't mean **** all for the other CB slots if the field position is not strong. I just don't know whether damari or dyoni have that, and I'm really not sure DPj does either.

I also don't follow guidrys scheme enough to know if they stay their side of field full time or not, but I'm worried about that field position more than nickel by a good margin.
 
816Cane said:
No shot at you here, just have seen this mentioned a few different times about who can play nickel and where the pieces will fall in the secondary.

DPj is going to have to be the field CB this year, and play a good majority of the snaps at that spot, which is a tall task. That, in my opinion, is the most important CB spot on the field. It won't mean **** all for the other CB slots if the field position is not strong. I just don't know whether damari or dyoni have that, and I'm really not sure DPj does either.

I also don't follow guidrys scheme enough to know if they stay their side of field full time or not, but I'm worried about that field position more than nickel by a good margin.
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IIRC, they don't switch. They play a side, but I'm going from memory. Probably a better question for some of the guys who've spent some hours breaking down last year's film. Maybe @WestEndZone can chime in.

I do agree with you that, based on prior film, DPJr is the best candidate for Field. I've also admitted I haven't seen Hill play very much - online clips and whatever has been posted. So, despite what I've read, I just stay quiet on his potential role until I see more. I'm just trying to find a way to shore up that Nickel spot and move Powell to Boundary Safety. I've repeated it a lot, but unless some leaps happen or guys shift around, I think we have a real problem against 4WR looks. Easy money out of the slot for some teams, and some teams' best (or most dangerous) players are actually slot WRs.
 
LuCane said:
IIRC, they don't switch. They play a side, but I'm going from memory. Probably a better question for some of the guys who've spent some hours breaking down last year's film. Maybe @WestEndZone can chime in.

I do agree with you that, based on prior film, DPJr is the best candidate for Field. I've also admitted I haven't seen Hill play very much - online clips and whatever has been posted. So, despite what I've read, I just stay quiet on his potential role until I see more. I'm just trying to find a way to shore up that Nickel spot and move Powell to Boundary Safety. I've repeated it a lot, but unless some leaps happen or guys shift around, I think we have a real problem against 4WR looks. Easy money out of the slot for some teams, and some teams' best (or most dangerous) players are actually slot WRs.
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Last year we played left and right.

In my estimation we didn’t have the prototypical boundary guy last year. I think he likes to roll with a long type at boundary since it gets so many jump balls. Obviously we didn’t have that body type playing last year.

Damari might be the closest thing we have to that, but I still don't think we’ll roll field/boundary.
 
DTP said:
This kid is going to play a lot for us. Maybe he takes the starting boundary spot or maybe he’s the nickel but when his former DC and position coach grab him from the portal it’s because they know he’s good enough to start here.
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see henry parrish
 
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