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  • #16
    It's heard to know who to trust. Here's what GBPG wrote about Cason:

    Cason might be the highest-rated of the group, or at least the safest prospect among them. He has a glaring lack of recovery speed but is smart, instinctive and has the strength to play the bump-and-run coverage the Packers demand of their cornerbacks.

    "He does a nice job of (bump and run)," said a scout who has a second-round grade on Cason. "He doesn't have great speed — unless you have great safeties, that's my only thing. Is that guy a top 64 pick? Yes. We need corners, too. But the guys we have now I know are faster than him, and that bothers me."
    If this is the case, I like him. I liked him before I read he couldn't play bump and run. However, I'm not sure he's a 1st round talent. I think Thompson goes elsewhere in round 1, and then looks at corner in the 2nd or perhaps 3rd round. Draft is supposed to be about 4 rounds deep at corner.
    "There's a lot of interest in the draft. It's great. But quite frankly, most of the people that are commenting on it don't know anything about what they are talking about."--Ted Thompson

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    • #17
      Well, then later in the same article it has this:

      The talk: "Cason's a pretty damn good corner. He just can't run," the scouting director for an NFC team said. "I like (Penn State's Justin) King better. King has more of an upside speed-wise, cover skills. Cason is a football player, that's really what he is. … "He's a very good zone player, Tampa 2, Indianapolis, New England, that type of system," said an AFC scout, "but also he can play man because he's smart. He knows his limitations and plays within those limitations. I think on the next level, he's going to do fine. He's got some size to him, his speed is just adequate, but he's got really good ball skills and awareness and route recognition." … ". I don't know, I don't get all jacked up about him," another scout said. "He's not a quick-twitch athlete." … A fourth scout said: "I thought he was (as good as) former Packers cornerback) Craig Newsome-type guy, but he's really not. He's a pretty good football player, but just not the whole package."
      "There's a lot of interest in the draft. It's great. But quite frankly, most of the people that are commenting on it don't know anything about what they are talking about."--Ted Thompson

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