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Potential Portal DB’s (CB’s & S’s only)

@Memnon you got any input on DBs available?

Seems we are very likely to get BC safety Thornton.

Only other safeties seem to be Koi.

But cbs there’s Aj Harris from PSU. But wonder if he’d be open or good at nickel. Prob too expensive. Think smith Snowden played nickel for Utah and was good but probably Michigan.

Boo Carter was talked about highly but potential off field issues. Dj barskdale prob too short. Didn’t even realize apparently cannon may have already picked a school, VTech just got the guy I liked from Troy..


Maybe best option is just having S+Nickel a grouping of Poyser, Fitz, Thornton, and Koi…and also hoping our young CBs step up.

Also def don’t want to lose OConnor to portal either. Rather lose Damari if anyone
 
Gru said:


Old name comes back around
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When I see a name like this, I can’t help but to think back to what D money and Pete said on a podcast almost 2 months ago. Because of the brevity of the portal, teams are going to look to players that they recruited back in high school because they have a baseline of who that person is. I don’t know if it means anything. But it’s stuck in my brain.
 
Calinative said:
@Memnon you got any input on DBs available?

Seems we are very likely to get BC safety Thornton.

Only other safeties seem to be Koi.

But cbs there’s Aj Harris from PSU. But wonder if he’d be open or good at nickel. Prob too expensive. Think smith Snowden played nickel for Utah and was good but probably Michigan.

Boo Carter was talked about highly but potential off field issues. Dj barskdale prob too short. Didn’t even realize apparently cannon may have already picked a school, VTech just got the guy I liked from Troy..


Maybe best option is just having S+Nickel a grouping of Poyser, Fitz, Thornton, and Koi…and also hoping our young CBs step up.

Also def don’t want to lose OConnor to portal either. Rather lose Damari if anyone
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As of now

DJ McKinney is the best CB available

Jahmal Shelby is the best Nickel available

AJ Harris & Joenel Aguero are both ***.
 
Memnon said:
As of now

DJ McKinney is the best CB available

Jahmal Shelby is the best Nickel available

AJ Harris & Joenel Aguero are both ***.
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I’d take Shelby, he’d probably be “cheap” too. I think the plan currently prob is to just take Koi and Thornton. But if we don’t land Koi Nickel is critical. Maybe if we do land him too tbh.

Outside CB I don’t see any adds being made and would be surprised if we didn’t see attrition there in addition to Brantley.
 
Smith Snowden Utah CB
5'10" 185lbs
Seems like a pretty great athlete
24 starts and 36 games played
Started at Nickel but also plays a lot outside (275-299snaps each). Last year he was full time nickel.
Had a 68.4 overall grade and 72.6 Coverage grade this year. Last year those two were 72.0 and 70.7 respectively.

Career has 133 targets, allowing 58 receptions (43.6%, which is really good). 14.1 y/rec. 5 TDs allowed to 4 INTs. 11 PBUs, and a 64.1 QB Rating allowed on 787 coverage snaps total.


This dude seems like he'd be a great maybe cheaper guy who if we lose an outside CB and don't neccessarily land a pure Nickel (like if we get Koi and Thornton) who can reliably be used outside and as a nickel as needed. ....
 
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