Nate Orchard DE Utah

[calicowboy54]

Keep and Eye on this guy for the DRAFT.. projection is 2 - 4 but with 11 sacks already this year in the pac-12 where there are good OT's he might be rising.

http://nflmocks.com/2014/10/07/nfl-draft-watch-utahs-nate-orchard-racking-sacks/

1. Nate Orchard, DE, Utah
   Height: 6-4. Weight: 255.
   Projected 40 Time: 4.78.
   Projected Round (2015): 2-4.
   10/18/14: Orchard has been one of the breakout players of the 2014 season. He has been a pass-rushing animal for the Utes with huge pass pressure. Orchard has a fast first-step with the speed to turn the corner. He also has strength to shed blocks and holds up well in run defense. Orchard's pass-rushing ability has been on display as he had four sacks against UCLA. In 2014, the senior has 10.5 sacks with 39 tackles, 13 tackles for a loss and three passes batted.
   
   As a junior, Orchard had 50 tackles with 8.5 tackles for a loss and three sacks, so he has shown a huge improvement as a senior. He had 48 tackles with three sacks as a sophomore.
   
   Personal: Son of Ana Fakahafua and stepfather is Leti Fonhemia, guardians are Dave and Katherine Orchard. Married with a daughter. Will graduate with a degree in economics in the fall of 2014.

 

[supercowboy8]

Yeah I have mentioned him before in here. This guy is a beast with the size to play the strong side. He is the RKG for Garrett system too and very smart player. He is quick off the line with nice pass rush moves that marinelli will like. I think he will be a late 1st early 2nd round pick.

 

[RS12]

It’s more than eight years later. Nate is 6-foot-4, 255 pounds. He plays defensive end for Utah, and he specializes in terrorizing quarterbacks. Statistically speaking, there is only one player in the country better at this in 2014. Nate’s also a husband, a father and an economics major. He’s someone that’s not presumably wired to show no mercy toward other humans on a weekly basis. But he is. He is wired just like that. And he has an explanation for it.

“There’s that motor and that tenacity to get home,” Nate Orchard says. “Because my team needs me, because our fans are watching, because it needs to happen. I just need to get home. I need to get there. I’m going to find a way.”

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One of the country’s most disruptive defenses belongs to 5-1 Utah, which enters the weekend leading the nation with 10.2 tackles-for-loss and 5.5 sacks per game. No team boasts more than the Utes’ 33 total sacks, in fact, despite the team playing just six games while many others have seven or eight in the books.

The tip of the spear is Orchard, the type of speedy edge rusher that defensive coordinators might create in a video game. He has 10.5 sacks, two shy ofWashington’s Hau’oli Kikaha for the national lead, though Kikaha has played in one more game. The per-game rate is a virtual dead heat: Kikaha’s 1.79 sacks per game versus Orchard’s 1.75.

In the view of the coach who will deal with this next, Orchard is now the strongest in a chain of really strong, quarterback-smashing links that goes back a while. “This isn’t something new,” USC coach Steve Sarkisian says as his No. 20 Trojans prepare to visit the 19th-ranked Utes on Saturday. “Utah plays a specific style that in my opinion is unique to them, with the aggressiveness they play (with) on the defensive front. They’ve had great defensive linemen over the years. Now it’s Nate Orchard’s turn to be the lead guy.”

http://www.si.com/college-football/2014/10/23/nate-orchard-utah-utes

 

[supercowboy8]

I would love to have Orchard opposite Lawerence for the next 8-10 years