This guy is really impressing me. He had a couple of PIs yesterday, but one was quite soft. And he was often tasked with covering Lawler. He seems a bit more aggressive than the other DBs, and willing to play tighter coverage. Ran a 4.4 40 in college, so he can afford to play a bit of catch up in his coverage when necessary. And he has decent size (listed at 5'11 190 lbs) compared to some of our smaller DBs. Is he the real thing, another D. Alford. Or is this prematurely looking for silver linings in a somewhat disappointing season so far?
He will be a stud after more seasoning. Some have been hard on our ability to find new talent, this guy proving them wrong.
Quote from: bunker on Today at 01:43:25 PMThis guy is really impressing me. He had a couple of PIs yesterday, but one was quite soft. And he was often tasked with covering Lawler. He seems a bit more aggressive than the other DBs, and willing to play tighter coverage. Ran a 4.4 40 in college, so he can afford to play a bit of catch up in his coverage when necessary. And he has decent size (listed at 5'11 190 lbs) compared to some of our smaller DBs. Is he the real thing, another D. Alford. Or is this prematurely looking for silver linings in a somewhat disappointing season so far?
He was listed as 6'1 in Camp, he's gotta be 6' seeing him on the field.
But ya, he's the most physical DB at the moment. I didn't like some of the wiffed tackles earlier in the year, but he looked good lastnight.
The bigger field and waggle takes some time for DB's to figure out, and it looks like he's getting it now.
Lawler is the highest paid REC in the league, highest paid ever in the $SMS era. The fact that Williams got PI's on him means he was THERE. In fact, he was there EARLY. Not something CFL fans are used to seeing with Lawler.
He is definitely going to be a keeper, hopefully almost as good as Alford, just not quite good enough to get NFL interest like Alford did. ;(
Liked him from game one. They are throwing at him a lot but he's been up to the task. Was probably one of our better defenders in the Edmonton home loss and looked good from the TV yesterday.