Shavon Revel is the key for the CB position moving forward!

Cowboyny said:
Revel missed the majority of last season due to a setback to his injured knee. When he came back after the team's late bye, he has mixed results. Started out well, then had struggles to finish out the year. Appeared to start losing his confidence. He never looked comfortable out there playing with that knee brace. He reportedly is now 100% healthy and no longer playing with that brace.

Coming out many respected draft insiders viewed Revel as a 1st rd talent, but fell in the draft due to tearing his acl. He has all the physical traits you seek at the position: Size, length, speed, etc. His speed jumped out at me when I saw him going stride for stride with KC's Worthy who is considered the fastest player in the league. He was more of a press/man corner in college, but has the skillset to be able to play all coverage types.

CP is known to be a strong developer of secondary talent. We all are aware of the long list of players he has developed. Revel is now his pet project. Can he get that huge upside potential out of him? Revel's development will hinge upon if they have to use another high pick at the position moving forward. He has #1 CB talent, but he is basically a raw rookie coming from a small program.
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Revel is not NFL material. Not as clearly bad as Blue at RB but still not near NFL ready.

Combine that with character (head) issues and i have not very much hope for this guy. To me another typical FO (JJ and SJ) wasted high round draft pick.

With our FO bad history at picking players in the draft and other teams shying away from media hyped ao called "1st rounder if not for..." i always have to chuckle when we celebrate after picking exactly such players.

After Bland at slot CB we have real issues in the backfield. I am very curious how Parker will approach this situation.
 
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Proof said:
slightly longer arms and wing span. slightly longer broad jump. aside from surtain matching him in vert and speed at nearly 15 lbs heavier, they are exceptionally similar athletes.
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Matching in vert and speed while being 15 lbs heavier and a bit taller is significant.

But this also disregards their age differences when they did the testing. A 23 year old is going to be more developed physically than a 20 year old. The athletic edge skews significantly toward the younger player in this context.
 
TwentyOne said:
Combine that with character (head) issues and i have not very much hope for this guy. To me another typical FO (JJ and SJ) wasted high round draft pick.
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Where are you getting this? Sounds made up. He’s never had any character or behavioral issues.

Dude had an ACL repair and came back too soon, should have had the eighteen months but coming back early he aggravated it and lost half the season

He worked nights at an Amazon warehouse because bad grades hurt his freshman year. You knocking him for his school grades?

Unless you are some kind of mind reader im thinking you have some personal beef at work here.
 
LouBrown said:
Matching in vert and speed while being 15 lbs heavier and a bit taller is significant.

But this also disregards their age differences when they did the testing. A 23 year old is going to be more developed physically than a 20 year old. The athletic edge skews significantly toward the younger player in this context.
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yeah i was highlighting that as impressive wrt surtain. he's a hell of a specimen. and yeah your point about the age difference is factual and important, but also ... that's just when they tested. the big takeaway is that revel is in the elite tier of physical tools.
 
Kwyn said:
Where are you getting this? Sounds made up. He’s never had any character or behavioral issues.

Dude had an ACL repair and came back too soon, should have had the eighteen months but coming back early he aggravated it and lost half the season

He worked nights at an Amazon warehouse because bad grades hurt his freshman year. You knocking him for his school grades?

Unless you are some kind of mind reader im thinking you have some personal beef at work here.
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I never let my feelings get in my way when it comes to player eval. And i have no beef with him. Heck i dont even know the guy and i have no wish to know him. He is just a resource my team uses. And i evaluate that.

I remember i read something about him regarding concerns about his character/mindset before the draft. Cant give you a sources and i may remember it wrong. But somehow i am pretty sure about it. I woudlnt have posted it if i werent.

I know about his injury and i was the one last year who constantly reminded readers here how we forced him way to early in the linup. And that this is wrong. His reaggrevation was the to be expected result of the missmamagement of our FO.

But injury or not the guy is not NFL material to me. He looks more like a 6th rounder than what you expect from a high pick. And that has nothing to do with lack of athleticism because of his injury.

Maybe Parker can do some magic. Who knows.
 
TwentyOne said:
I remember i read something about him regarding concerns about his character/mindset before the draft. Cant give you a sources and i may remember it wrong. But somehow i am pretty sure about it. I woudlnt have posted it if i werent.
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You’re misremembering or have him confused with another player.

This next isn’t intended to call you out in any way. It was just for fun

I am fascinated with AI and have built my own AI agent that I have fun with. I put your question into three different AI engines (Claude, Chat GTP and Gemini) and then had them argue with each other and try to find discrepancies

Gemini (bare bones cause I don’t like it much and don’t mess with it inless I’m lazy

No, there have been no character or off-field behavioral issues reported regarding Shavon Revel. Scouting reports and pre-draft evaluations praised his work ethic, battle-tested resilience, and love for football, often highlighting his path to the NFL as a standout cheracteristic.

Chat GTP

Based on what’s been publicly reported, no significant character concerns have followed Shavon Revel Jr. into the NFL.

In fact, the available reporting points in the opposite direction:
  • NFL scouts and coaches consistently praised his work ethic and coachability. East Carolina coaches described him as a player who embraced coaching, played hard on special teams before becoming a starter, and never complained about his role.
  • One of the biggest stories leading up to the 2025 NFL Draft was that Revel turned down lucrative transfer portal offers from major programs to stay at East Carolina because he felt loyal to the school that gave him his opportunity. Multiple evaluators cited that decision as evidence of his character. An NFL personnel director told ESPN that his loyalty “said a lot about his character.”
  • Revel has been open about his early academic struggles, taking responsibility rather than blaming others. He improved his grades enough to qualify for East Carolina and later graduated with a communications degree, finishing his final semester with a 3.0 GPA.
Claude:

No character issues have come up in anything I found on Revel. Everything in the reporting and scouting circles has been quite positive about his character and makeup. His pre-draft profile noted his remarkable backstory — working the graveyard shift at an Amazon warehouse while chasing his football dreams — and scouts described betting on his traits and character as much as his production.

The concerns around him have been purely about performance and health. His rookie year was rough — he finished with a 35.2 overall defensive grade from PFF, ranking 114th out of 114 cornerbacks but that’s widely attributed to taking the field while still recovering from a torn ACL, without a healthy offseason to prepare for his rookie debut

If anything, his response to the adversity has been framed positively — he’s talked about having “heart and grit” to go out and play even when he didn’t feel like himself, and entering 2026 with confidence and a clear-eyed focus on improvement.

So no red flags on the character side — just a guy who’s had a tough injury road and a bumpy rookie year on the field
 
TwentyOne said:
Revel is not NFL material. Not as clearly bad as Blue at RB but still not near NFL ready.

Combine that with character (head) issues and i have not very much hope for this guy. To me another typical FO (JJ and SJ) wasted high round draft pick.

With our FO bad history at picking players in the draft and other teams shying away from media hyped ao called "1st rounder if not for..." i always have to chuckle when we celebrate after picking exactly such players.

After Bland at slot CB we have real issues in the backfield. I am very curious how Parker will approach this situation.
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Character issues? Don’t know where you are getting that from, check out his background, he has worked real hard to get here
 
I’ve been curious as to how Revel compares to the two previous Pro Bowl cornerbacks that Parker has coached.

Shavon Revel posted an elite 26% forced incompletion rate at East Carolina. Quinyon Mitchell recorded a massive 23.4% rate over his final years at Toledo. Patrick Surtain II achieved an outstanding 20.2% rate during his final season at Alabama.

He actually exceeded both in forced incompletions.

And he had an amazing start to his 2024 season.

Revel burst onto the national radar with a breakout 2023 season, racking up 55 tackles, 12 pass breakups, and 2 blocked kicks. He was playing at an even higher level in 2024—recording 2 interceptions (one returned for a touchdown) and 4 passes defended in just three games—before a torn ACL abruptly ended his final college season.

If he’s anywhere close to the athlete he was prior to his injury, there’s every reason to think that we may have the next shutdown corner coached by Christian Parker.
 
TwentyOne said:
I never let my feelings get in my way when it comes to player eval. And i have no beef with him. Heck i dont even know the guy and i have no wish to know him. He is just a resource my team uses. And i evaluate that.

I remember i read something about him regarding concerns about his character/mindset before the draft. Cant give you a sources and i may remember it wrong. But somehow i am pretty sure about it. I woudlnt have posted it if i werent.

I know about his injury and i was the one last year who constantly reminded readers here how we forced him way to early in the linup. And that this is wrong. His reaggrevation was the to be expected result of the missmamagement of our FO.

But injury or not the guy is not NFL material to me. He looks more like a 6th rounder than what you expect from a high pick. And that has nothing to do with lack of athleticism because of his injury.

Maybe Parker can do some magic. Who knows.
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lol
 
Proof said:
lol
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I guess you read only the first sentence. And not the whole post.

Therefore i dont feel offended because someone who doesnt feel the need to read and understand is not worth to be taken serious.
 
TwentyOne said:
Revel is not NFL material. Not as clearly bad as Blue at RB but still not near NFL ready.

Combine that with character (head) issues and i have not very much hope for this guy. To me another typical FO (JJ and SJ) wasted high round draft pick.

With our FO bad history at picking players in the draft and other teams shying away from media hyped ao called "1st rounder if not for..." i always have to chuckle when we celebrate after picking exactly such players.

After Bland at slot CB we have real issues in the backfield. I am very curious how Parker will approach this situation.
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So you can tell all about the player that wore a brace all last season? I don’t know how he’s gonna turn out, but you have no idea either. He was a first round talent for a reason though
 
DogFace said:
Was he actually projected as a first rounder pre injury?

Impressive.
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Well, he had one good season in 2023 and then got hurt early in his senior year. But after his junior year, it was projected another similar season would make him a first round prospect.

He was a fifth year senior and then had a redshirt year so he’s already 25, which is kind of a bummer. He’s essentially two seasons behind where he should be.
 
DarkVader33 said:
So you can tell all about the player that wore a brace all last season? I don’t know how he’s gonna turn out, but you have no idea either. He was a first round talent for a reason though
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He completely made all of that up. Complete fabrication. So, it’s safe to just ignore him on this topic, if not everything.
 
Uh, I just want to see them play as a unit.

I'm so ready to see Downs play.
 
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