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Short Shuttle for DT's and Jason Blissett

Lance Roffers

Lance Roffers

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Last year, I made a post about Jason Blissett and his short shuttle results coming out of high school. Here is that post:

I'm building a database of athletic testing numbers for an article I'm writing and Blissett tests very well at his position. He tested as an 84th percentile athlete at the position and my database is heavily tilted to the ESPN300 etc. so that I'm getting all of the best players especially.

For Miami DT's that have tested, he finished in second place behind Gerald Willis (88th percentile).

Here are the players that weight 250+ pounds who ran a faster short shuttle than Blissett and his 4.40 short shuttle (my database started in 2014 when numbers became more available):

Derek Barnett- 1st round pick, All-American, and broke Reggie White's school sack record at Tennessee.
Solomon Thomas- 1st round pick and All-American at Stanford.
Joshua Paschal- Class of '17 player already starting for Kentucky and produced sacks against Tenn and Vanderbilt as a freshman.
James Lynch- ESPN freshman All-American last year for Baylor.
Gerald Willis- Miami's best DL and off to a crazy good start.
Rashan Gary- All-American at Michigan will be a very high pick this year.
Neville Gallimore- #11 on college football's "freaks list" at Oklahoma and looks to be a high pick.

That's it. That's the list.
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I wanted to provide an update on this list and add one new player to show the point further.

Derek Barnett- 1st round pick, All-American, and broke Reggie White's school sack record at Tennessee.

Solomon Thomas- 1st round pick and All-American at Stanford.

Josh Paschal- Was well on his way to being an impact player in SEC but got cancer and that has held him back.

James Lynch- Unanimous All-American this year. Defensive POY in the Big-12.

Gerald Willis- You know his story, was an All-American his senior year.

Rashan Gary- Top-15 pick in NFL draft and All-American at Michigan.

Neville Gallimore- He went from just a freak, to All-American this year.

Antonio Alfana- 5-star prospect went to Alabama and had some issues. Transferred to Colorado.

To sum this up, that means every player on this list became an All-American in college except for Joshua Paschal, who was making starts before he got cancer. Alfana was a freshman, so we will see where his path leads.

For me, this metric continues to show the kind of potential that Blissett possesses, and why he has a serious chance of using that athleticism to make a big impact here next season.
 
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DL is going to continue to be a strength.

Greg R.
Scott P.
Jafrari H.
Jaelen P.
Quinten W.
Chantz W.

Ford
Nesta
Miller
Holley
Blissett
Hunte
Roberts

To add we are getting more athletic up front:

Phillips
Williams brothers
Blissett

all plus DL athletes.
 
Lance Roffers said:
Last year, I made a post about Jason Blissett and his short shuttle results coming out of high school. Here is that post:



I wanted to provide an update on this list and add one new player to show the point further.

Derek Barnett- 1st round pick, All-American, and broke Reggie White's school sack record at Tennessee.

Solomon Thomas- 1st round pick and All-American at Stanford.

Josh Paschal- Was well on his way to being an impact player in SEC but got cancer and that has held him back.

James Lynch- Unanimous All-American this year. Defensive POY in the Big-12.

Gerald Willis- You know his story, was an All-American his senior year.

Rashan Gary- Top-15 pick in NFL draft and All-American at Michigan.

Neville Gallimore- He went from just a freak, to All-American this year.

Antonio Alfana- 5-star prospect went to Alabama and had some issues. Transferred to Colorado.

To sum this up, that means every player on this list became an All-American in college except for Joshua Paschal, who was making starts before he got cancer. Alfana was a freshman, so we will see where his path leads.

For me, this metric continues to show the kind of potential that Blissett possesses, and why he has a serious chance of using that athleticism to make a big impact here next season.
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What about Hunte? Wasn’t he a really good athlete ?
 
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Why is it our recruiting from Dline to Oline so off-balanced? We have 3 lines of awesomeness on the defense but cant find 5 guys who are at least serviceable on the Oline. I truly hope we bring in a new Oline coach who's a teacher. I could care less about his recruiting. As they say...build em and they will come.
 
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