Team sees Mukuama as Safety

[CalPolyTechnique]

Listening to the Day 3 press conference Stephen just mentioned the team envisions starting Israel Mukuama out at safety. They believe he has the size (mentioned weight) and balls skills to play in that role.

Outside of Parsons, Mukuama may be my favorite pick on defense this draft class. That said, I'm not sure he has the sideline-to-sideline speed to play single high safety. I think he has a role in certain coverage units playing press man or in the red zone. We'll see. He's intriguing.

When you watch his cutups you see his lengthy clearly playing a role in creating turnovers. Too tired now, but will cutup some gifs later.

 

[AsthmaField]

Listening to the Day 3 press conference Stephen just mentioned the team envisions starting Israel Mukuama out at safety. They believe he has the size (mentioned weight) and balls skills to play in that role.

Outside of Parsons, Mukuama may be my favorite pick on defense this draft class. That said, I'm not sure he has the sideline-to-sideline speed to play single high safety. I think he has a role in certain coverage units playing press man or in the red zone. We'll see. He's intriguing.

When you watch his cutups you see his lengthy clearly playing a role in creating turnovers. Too tired now, but will cutup some gifs later.

It’ll be an interesting thing to watch. It could hit or miss, for sure. If he does work out though, it’d be a pretty big hit I think.

Certainly worth a shot at that point.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Listening to the Day 3 press conference Stephen just mentioned the team envisions starting Israel Mukuama out at safety. They believe he has the size (mentioned weight) and balls skills to play in that role.

Outside of Parsons, Mukuama may be my favorite pick on defense this draft class. That said, I'm not sure he has the sideline-to-sideline speed to play single high safety. I think he has a role in certain coverage units playing press man or in the red zone. We'll see. He's intriguing.

When you watch his cutups you see his lengthy clearly playing a role in creating turnovers. Too tired now, but will cutup some gifs later.

who is Mukuama? Did I miss that pick?

 

[conner01]

It’ll be an interesting thing to watch. It could hit or miss, for sure. If he does work out though, it’d be a pretty big hit I think.

Certainly worth a shot at that point.

He played safety some at SC
Seems like a logical conversion

 

[Daillest88]

who is Mukuama? Did I miss that pick?

He played Corner and safety at South Carolina

 

[Ranching]

who is Mukuama? Did I miss that pick?

Sounds like a good name for a cocktail

 

[DoctorChicken]

who is Mukuama? Did I miss that pick?

Israel Mukuama

https://www.wfaa.com/mobile/article...lass/287-75ab3458-e82a-40d1-8fb1-3cd0d56d15b4

 

[RamziD]

who is Mukuama? Did I miss that pick?

Israel Mukuamu, CB, South Carolina. One of our 6th round picks.

 

[conner01]

who is Mukuama? Did I miss that pick?

He was the CB at South Carolina with Horn
He played safety there too
6’4” 212 lbs
Not super fast but fast enough for safety and should be able to matchup with a TE well at his size

 

[DoctorChicken]

who is Mukuama? Did I miss that pick?

It’s an interesting pick. I remember back in the day before pro days and all the hubbub that he was gonna be. 4th rounder or so. Nice value.

 

[darthseinfeld]

Listening to the Day 3 press conference Stephen just mentioned the team envisions starting Israel Mukuama out at safety. They believe he has the size (mentioned weight) and balls skills to play in that role.

Outside of Parsons, Mukuama may be my favorite pick on defense this draft class. That said, I'm not sure he has the sideline-to-sideline speed to play single high safety. I think he has a role in certain coverage units playing press man or in the red zone. We'll see. He's intriguing.

When you watch his cutups you see his lengthy clearly playing a role in creating turnovers. Too tired now, but will cutup some gifs later.

Makes sense coverage wise. I don't think he is an NFL CB. Needs to tackled better though

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

Ok I'm just gone call him Mamaduke.

 

[Hennessy_King]

Disaster before it gets started. Byron jones, reggie robinson now this kid just draft a freakin safety

 

[darthseinfeld]

Listening to the Day 3 press conference Stephen just mentioned the team envisions starting Israel Mukuama out at safety. They believe he has the size (mentioned weight) and balls skills to play in that role.

Outside of Parsons, Mukuama may be my favorite pick on defense this draft class. That said, I'm not sure he has the sideline-to-sideline speed to play single high safety. I think he has a role in certain coverage units playing press man or in the red zone. We'll see. He's intriguing.

When you watch his cutups you see his lengthy clearly playing a role in creating turnovers. Too tired now, but will cutup some gifs later.

Add to that, the minute we drafted one CB meant Robinson was probably off the roster. Drafting 3 means someone is probably a S lol

 

[SackMaster]

I'm not too worried about the "sideline-to-sideline" speed as much as his ability to "read-and-react quickly" in the moment.

I haven't watched too much on any prospect really, but I have seen plenty of "fast" safeties that were never in position because they didn't diagnose what was happening in front of them quick enough.

If Mukuama can handle the mental side of things quickly enough, he should have more than enough athleticism to man the position.

It will be interesting to see if IM can develop into a solid safety after swapping between CB/S throughout his career in college.

 

[conner01]

Listening to the Day 3 press conference Stephen just mentioned the team envisions starting Israel Mukuama out at safety. They believe he has the size (mentioned weight) and balls skills to play in that role.

Outside of Parsons, Mukuama may be my favorite pick on defense this draft class. That said, I'm not sure he has the sideline-to-sideline speed to play single high safety. I think he has a role in certain coverage units playing press man or in the red zone. We'll see. He's intriguing.

When you watch his cutups you see his lengthy clearly playing a role in creating turnovers. Too tired now, but will cutup some gifs later.

I haven’t found how he ran at pro day
Have you seen his times
Side note
He played safety in HS and dome at SC

 

[darthseinfeld]

Disaster before it gets started. Byron jones, reggie robinson now this kid just draft a freakin safety

Or start drafting S and converting them into CB's

 

[America's Cowboy]

Ugh. More "meh", than "yeah".



Time will tell. Hope he improves.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Disaster before it gets started. Byron jones, reggie robinson now this kid just draft a freakin safety

I'll just say that I'm glad they are doing it with a 6th or 7th rounder as opposed to a 1st or 4th rounder...that's refreshing at least.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

Ok I'm just gone call him Mamaduke.

Not Marmaduke like the comic strip?