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Patrick Finley of The Arizona Daily Star looks at U.S.C. linebacker Taylor Mays.
DD.Comment: We've seen quite a few articles about Mays the last few days and this is the first one we linked because it's well written -- it points out his flaws, as well as his obvious talent. The writer is absolutely correct when he notes some N.F.L. teams view Taylor as a potential N.F.L. linebacker, while other teams see him as a future safety. We mentioned in the blog three years ago that Pete Carroll felt Mays would eventually make a great N.F.L. linebacker due to his excellent size/speed combination. In that sense, he's similar to Brian Urlacher, who Tony Dungy has openly admitted he really wanted to draft as a free safety in the spring of 2000 so he could pair him with future Hall of Famer John Lynch in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers secondary. Obviously, Chicago drafted Urlacher and he was bulked up real quickly and moved to middle linebacker. So it will come down to which team drafts him in the first round of the 2010 draft and where they think he best fits their scheme. Two more quick points: One, while most on the Net are reporting Mays ran between a 4.25 and 4.29 at his Pro Day, N.F.L. scouts currently have him listed at 6' 3", 235 pounds and they "estimate" his 40 time at 4.50. That's not surprising, when you consider U.S.C.'s track is so blazing fast that even their place-kicker ran sub 4.5's the last two springs. Teams adjust 40 times based on surface and weather conditions sometimes...Two, it doesn't surprise us that Mays made the remark that he returned to U.S.C. to improve as a football player, not just to attend parties and chase girls. Several months back Tony Pauline of TFY noted [COLOR=#0000]Mays primarily returned to school because he fell in love with a cheerleader[/COLOR]. Obviously, that's not what N.F.L. scouts want to hear, so he's trying hard to down play that.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sports/303208
it seem like a waste of talent to make hin a LBer
Patrick Finley of The Arizona Daily Star looks at U.S.C. linebacker Taylor Mays.
DD.Comment: We've seen quite a few articles about Mays the last few days and this is the first one we linked because it's well written -- it points out his flaws, as well as his obvious talent. The writer is absolutely correct when he notes some N.F.L. teams view Taylor as a potential N.F.L. linebacker, while other teams see him as a future safety. We mentioned in the blog three years ago that Pete Carroll felt Mays would eventually make a great N.F.L. linebacker due to his excellent size/speed combination. In that sense, he's similar to Brian Urlacher, who Tony Dungy has openly admitted he really wanted to draft as a free safety in the spring of 2000 so he could pair him with future Hall of Famer John Lynch in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers secondary. Obviously, Chicago drafted Urlacher and he was bulked up real quickly and moved to middle linebacker. So it will come down to which team drafts him in the first round of the 2010 draft and where they think he best fits their scheme. Two more quick points: One, while most on the Net are reporting Mays ran between a 4.25 and 4.29 at his Pro Day, N.F.L. scouts currently have him listed at 6' 3", 235 pounds and they "estimate" his 40 time at 4.50. That's not surprising, when you consider U.S.C.'s track is so blazing fast that even their place-kicker ran sub 4.5's the last two springs. Teams adjust 40 times based on surface and weather conditions sometimes...Two, it doesn't surprise us that Mays made the remark that he returned to U.S.C. to improve as a football player, not just to attend parties and chase girls. Several months back Tony Pauline of TFY noted [COLOR=#0000]Mays primarily returned to school because he fell in love with a cheerleader[/COLOR]. Obviously, that's not what N.F.L. scouts want to hear, so he's trying hard to down play that.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sports/303208
it seem like a waste of talent to make hin a LBer
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