NC State S Josh Jones

Very versatile. Great measurables and just noticed him while watching the combine. Viewed mostly as a mid-rounder before the combine, so I was very surprised to see reports of him being a day 1 (very optimistic imo) or day 2 selection(realistic). Patriots met with him a ton the night before his pro day. And by all accounts looked great in drills there.

Combine performance was impressive: 4.41 in the 40, 37.5 vertical, 11' broad and 20 reps on the bench.
That's a bad ass workout! All at 6'1" 220.

First two seasons were at strong safety, his last season was at free safety. Started 13 games in '16 and led the team in tackles with 109, 11 PBUs, and 3 INTs.

I watched all 3 games on DBD and was very impressed. Lined up all over the place. One glaring knock for me was an inability to get off blocks at times, but it's not enough to drop him significantly for me. Sound tackler.

Marcus Williams FS Utah better move over, you got some competition. I might even go round 2 for this guy. Give him a year behind Mitchell and let him acclimate on big nickel. oh yes, turtle likey....

http://draftbreakdown.com/video/josh-jones-vs-vanderbilt-2016/

http://draftbreakdown.com/video/josh-jones-vs-miami-2016/

http://draftbreakdown.com/video/josh-jones-vs-notre-dame-2016/

 

4.32 sec short shuttle and a 7.43 3 cone at pro day

 

take a look at mac daddyo's mock in the obi thread. even updated that with jones in the 2nd in the ILB thread. LOL

i want obi and jones. we could do so much with these two.

 

That three cone has me a bit worried though. Not as flexible in his change of direction as he seems to be on tape.


Other than that, I would not mind. Obi is still my status quo for the Steelers draft range.

 

see i don't mind those numbers because of not just looking at him as a conventional safety but as a hybrid safety/ LB. 3 shaziers if you will but even more versatile.

 

thats why i said but even more versatile.

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...zl6GIJVt4GuBBd_uUfuAGA&bvm=bv.150729734,d.eWE

looks like he and obi are coming to meet us.

 

Nice!! So many targets in the second round, so few picks....

 

If you go with all those small fast guys on the field they will struggle against the run.

 

This. Have to utilize a big 'backer who can thump.

 

neither of those guys are small. it's about tackling. both are good tackling players. with a big guy they just throw it so whats the difference if they score on you with the pass or the run? you don't get extra points removed for one or the other. our safeties the last couple of years have been bad at tackling. we lost shamarko. we have mitchell, davis and golden. we easily could take on two safeties.

 

Obi isn't a good tackler, the Steelers still have Dangerfield on the roster I think. I don't see them drafting two safeties that high to acquire Jones and Obi, CB and OLB are more of a priority early in the draft.

 

There are so many prospects in the 30-70 range, it should be interesting
to see if the Steelers do something out of their normal operating procedures?
About a month out now, Only time will tell.

 

I wish we had 3 second round picks lol

 

I read that somewhere recently that said he was a bad tackler.

 

I wouldn't be opposed to moving say our 4th this year and 3rd next year to move back into the 3rd this year. There are enough picks in this draft to make this worthwhile.

 

That's why we need to go to more DL ...The way the NFL is heading the 5-1-5 is the Defense of the future ...The single LB will be played by a SS type the sooner we start loading up on DB'S the better...

 

Indeed. Obi is a guy I would love for us to nab at 30 for sure if Watt, Mckinley or Lawson are out of the equation.