Sentences with phrase «defensive backs in»

If it was that easy to gain muscle then no bodybuilder would complain about how they are not gaining muscle, every college frat guy would be huge, and defensive backs in football would get so huge they would turn into linebackers.

Michigan lost all four starting defensive backs in 2016, so it was wise for the staff to get all four newcomers on campus early.

Michigan signed a combined nine defensive backs in the 2016 and 2017 classes.

That won't stop it from going after more top defensive backs in coming years.

He made coaches a lot more open to using defensive backs in a variety of roles.

«He is the most decisive quarterback I've ever played against,» said Elk Grove safety Shaunard Harts Jr., a senior considered one of the best defensive backs in the section.

But defensive backs in Super Bowl 52 can help themselves most by remembering this --- don't panic.

If there's a run on defensive backs in the first six picks, the Chargers will be faced with a situation where they take either Alabama defensive lineman Jonathan Allen or whomever they happen to consider the top blocker available this year.

To me being in the mix with db's for most int's is impressive, same with being top 5 in solo tackles, top 21 in combined leading all safeties and being in the mix with the top linebackers in the league is amazing, we all know lb's always have the most tackles solo or combined same with defensive backs in Interceptions and passes defended, we all know db's get way more passes there way then safeties so to one of the leaders in INT's and top 20 in the league in passes defended shows how good he is.

McCaffrey's courage, deceptive speed, precise routes, sly moves and unfailing hands have made believers of some of the best defensive backs in the business, including Dallas Cowboys cornerback Deion Sanders, who was a teammate of McCaffrey's with the 49ers in 1994.

The Rams simply didn't want to lose one of the best defensive backs in the game.

Opposing defensive backs in the league struggled with containing him.

«There are a number of defensive backs in the league with fewer neck vertebrae because of it.»

The best defensive backs in the league get targeted less and less as their reputation grows, thus opening the door for lesser known players to pick off more passes.

Not surprisingly, Whittingham loaded up on defensive backs in his 2017 signing class.

«He is resilient,» says Jeff Diamond, who spent nearly three decades in NFL front offices and was a Vikings executive when Carroll coached defensive backs in Minnesota from 1985 to» 89.

Michigan cornerback Jourdan Lewis, who has statistically been one of the best defensive backs in the country this season, dropped quote about becoming a legend.

Wide receivers who are willing to really take it to defensive backs in the run game are always good money in my book.

Michigan cornerback Jourdan Lewis, who has statistically been one of the best defensive backs in the country this season, dropped quote about...

Michigan is likely to take about five defensive backs in its 2016 recruiting class.

I put more of a premium on actually seeing guys pass block well one - on - one, rather than seeing them block a defensive back in space on a screen or get a ton of pancakes.

• Mayock, a college safety at Boston College, on his draft day — April 29, 1981, when he was chosen in the 10th round, by the Steelers, 265th overall, just 257 picks after a slightly more famous defensive back in the draft, Ronnie Lott: «I was the captain of the Boston College baseball team, and we had games on both days.

Entering the season, Baseball Prospectus's PECOTAprojection system cited Francoeur as Kemp's most comparable player, recognizingthe two rightfielders» similarity in power and athleticism; Francoeur was astar defensive back in high school, Kemp was better known for his basketballskills when the Dodgers drafted him.

His seven career sacks are already the most by a defensive back in Chiefs history.

That is the mantra for every defensive back in this Super Bowl.

A defensive back in college, Rodriguez asked himself what many defense - minded coaches have asked: what do I hate stopping the most?

Also, Jalen Ramsey is probably the most fun defensive back in the game today, so any time he matches up with Antonio Brown, it will be a treat.

The talent really dries up on the line, unlike positions like wide receiver or defensive back in this draft.

However, after converting from defensive back in college, he recorded 194 tackles, 24.5 for loss, 6 sacks, and 4 interceptions in his last 2 seasons.

He's also a finalist for the Thorpe award, a lesser trophy that just goes to the best defensive back in the nation.

Not exact matches

In the introduction to a series that will look back at the events leading up to the election, Silver seems on the defensive somewhat, justifying his analysis of the poll results and pointing out that he predicted Clinton would be weak with the Electoral College and that Trump might prevail.

He initially left the game back in 1983, ending his tenure as the defensive coordinator at Dartmouth College.

What scouts like: The latest in a long line of talented defensive backs to emerge from Nick Saban's Alabama squads, Fitzpatrick is at his best as a roaming safety.

Collins has adopted a more defensive position in the last 18 months, reducing duration and credit risk by scaling back overweight positions in high - yield and municipal bonds, but he's sticking with allocations to intermediate term funds.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers managed to trade back five spots in the first round and still get one of the top defensive linemen in this year's class.

Pats defensive back Duron Harmon and his girlfriend dined at Empire in the Seaport....

I will put Cobb back on the defensive by saying that I fail to see how the model of an all - encompassing, regionally inclusive experience is compatible with the hiddenness of competing drives, aspirations and fears which psychoanalysis reveals in the» «depth» dimension of the psyche,» by which term I mean something broader than the unified experience of the analogue to the «soul,» namely, the restless depths of the complex societies which support the regnant nexus and which have a «life» of their own, which is in some instances incorporated into, melded into the conscious experience of the occasions in the regnant society, and sometimes is not.

In that quick moment, I thought back to the several parties she'd invited me to where I'd been the only person of color but I shrugged off the temptation to be defensive and said, «Well, there are usually a few others, but yes, it is a mostly black church.»

It was the defensive army taking the offensive in its turn, and driving back the enemy to his base.»

The believer, in actuality, gets much more defensive, because they can not substantiate their claims, and feels offended because he is backed by many other delusional beings, thus wants the non-believer to surrender.

The sharemarket is back in negative territory for the first time since February as the reality of higher interest rates in the United States sends traders scrambling for cover and out of popular defensive trades.

Played in midfield against Besiktas, but should be moved back into the defensive three to help cope with City's attacking threat.

Peppers, the No. 25 pick in this year's NFL Draft, is expected to see time at defensive back and special teams as a rookie.

Barcelona of a few years back were spectacularly underrated as a defensive unit — and one of the smallest teams ever to grace a football pitch — and you can see that DNA in Sanchez.

Injuries played a role in these breakdowns — only two of the top six tacklers on the line played in all 13 games, and thanks to injuries and shuffling, 15 different defensive backs recorded at least 5 tackles.

I am angry that we are still short at the back and in defensive midfield, quality wise.

The difference was, Chelsea had the higher intensity in the second half and once we had lost our oppurtunity to win the ball back fast, we retreated into a defensive formation.

If we need every player on the pitch to work hard in the defense, there is something groundbreakingly wrong with our back four and defensive midfield.

S&P + projects Illinois around five wins, which probably sounds about right considering the new coaching, the lack of offensive play - makers, and the turnover in the defensive back seven.

DuPree explained to Cochren that his method of taping helped him hold onto the football, particularly after a difficult catch when he was trying to bring the ball into his body while the defensive back was trying simultaneously to break him in two and take the ball away.