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No. 61 Green Bay Packers: Josh Jones, Safety, North Carolina State
Strengths: Size, speed, experience, versatility.
Weaknesses: Instincts, gamble-and-guess habits.
Jones is a 220-pound safety who ran a 4.41-second combine 40 (with other outstanding drills). He started for a major program from his freshman year forward and lined up everywhere from the box to the slot to free safety for the Wolfpack. For all of this, he received almost no predraft buzz.
OK, this is a great safety class, so standing out from the crowd was more difficult than usual. But Jones’ combine results alone should have made him a draftnik binky. But no. It was “Jabrill Peppers” this and “Obi Melifonwu” that.
Maybe the name was the problem. “Josh Jones” may not be a cursed name like Mike Williams, but it is generic, suggesting that Jones is Defensive Prospect X and not Crazy Athletic Harrison Smith-Like Guy. Jones needs a proper 2017 safety name, the kind that combines a religious figure from history with a spicy food and lots of vowels.
From now on, Jones will be known as either Confucius Habanero or Zarathustra Hotwing.
On second thought, it won’t take long for Jones’ play to make a name for itself.
Packers GM Ted Thompson is stuck in "draft for the secondary" mode right now. It may not accurately reflect what we perceive to be the Packers' needs. But at least he is grabbing some good players.
Grade: B
Originally Posted by pbmax
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