Good Safety To Pair Up With Davis?

Considering that, Mike Mitchell is slowly showcasing he is on the wrong side of 30, which type safety in this draft do you lean towards?



An Uber Athlete like Sean Davis?


A well rounded safety who can get the job done?


A big hitting run stopper?


Or


A ball hawking free lancer?

 

all of the above AQL. this spot should be high on our draft list. maybe a double dip. i do think wilcox could work out for us. i'd like to see him get more time with davis.

 

i'd sure like to see what allen can do back there. why keep him and waste him on the bench? make the move next year and teach him the safety spot in preseason. davis and allen both have some safety and corner experience.

 

Back end, single high safety type and its not even debatable imo. You know a guy who can actually break on the ball and give you a PBU or high point an INT.

 

This is exactly what we need, a young Earl Thomas type player.

 

I agree I kinda feel Davis could be this guy while still being an in the box guys as well. I like that as it gives us flexibility, do you agree?

I like Reid a ton, some other names at S are James, Watts, Edmonds, Elliott, Webb, Blanding, Flowers and Reaves(my darkhorse) and according to which article you read a lot of these guys are slotted at both FS and SS. I really am taking a liking to Reid and he may need to be taken in the first for us to have a shot at him.

 

In some of those trade up scenarios would it make more sense to trade out of the first round instead to a mid second round pick and pick up a 3rd or 4th in the process?

 

Bates in the second would work,he's a CF type safety I feel we need in this defense which we play single high....I was gonna ask the same question about Reid ...would he feel obligated to his brother if his brother wants to keep up his stance against the anthem. We clearly don't need that distraction....

 

I've seen Edmund's as low as the 4th but that was prior to him running a 4.47 at the combine. He's got some good tape. He's definitely got the size. I'd love he and his brother at 1-2 or 1-3. If some of these other LBers are more favoured you never know. I do think Davis paired with a good SS could fit the bill. Don't count out the kids from Temple, northwestern, Wisconsin or Hawaii yet either. Pretty decent ball skills amongst them.

 

Harrison will be a pro bowler. Book it. He is harrison smith with better speed. Or at least better football speed

 

He has been described as more of a box safety, than a guy who can play single high.

 

He can do both. At least in my opinion he can. He done both in college at a high level. He is just a football player

 

Harrison, white, Edmund's fit that bill of the hybrid players even if they don't have the better ball skills of a traditional FS they bring some things that type doesn't. In our system they could be teamed with guys that are in the traditional sense and you get the small faster LB type with SS type of tackling with better than LB ball skills. Win, win, win.

 

Admittedly I don't watch every Bama game but I've seen my fair share. I have seen Harrison on quite a few occasions make plays down the field. How consistent he can be,Idk. The biggest weakness of this D and the scheme we run is the single high safety....so unless your gonna tell me we are going away from this then it's in our best interest to draft or sign someone who can do it. I don't have faith in Davis making the transition, I just don't see his recognition and ball skills when he's been tasked to play his part of a zone.
While it would be great to have this hybrid wonder player ,if we continue with the single high look we better shore up that weakness first....