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Originally Posted by htismaqe
He's athletically gifted but he's just not a very good football player. That was evident last year. I have to wonder if he just has a very low football IQ.
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Yeah, that's kinda my feel.
I'm not even sure it's low football IQ as much as it is a lack of baseline reliability. He makes some plays where he diagnoses quickly and explodes toward the ballcarrier - it's a 'savvy' play that you generally think comes from someone who's a pretty smart ballplayer.
But then he'll just completely airmail an assignment 2 plays later.
It's less of a football IQ thing and almost a football maturity thing. He just can't seem to maintain focus terribly well or hold his water. He struggles to play within scheme.
That doesn't mean he's not sharp enough to do it but rather that he's just not polished enough for the game to have slowed down for him.