The Elijah Battle-Personal Narrative

Defensive backs are supposed to have short memories, yet nobody seems willing to let Vernon Hargreaves forget how his two seasons in the NFL have not lived up to the promise of a first-round pick. So here are the facts:

Last season, it was obvious the Buccaneers defense seriously lacked in several areas. The defensive line struggled to get a sufficient pass rush and in turn forced a struggling secondary to play on it's heels. However this off season, the Bucs made several moves that, in theory, should help both areas improve tremendously.

America's team just added two solid linebackers to their roster. Ka'Lial Glaud and Jonathan Brown were just signed to the team on Monday. Although the two haven't been able to truly prove themselves on the field, they are great pickups for the Cowboys. The linebacker position is probably the Cowboys' weakest link, after several of their linebackers were sidelined last season due to injuries. Hopefully, Sean Lee will be ready to compete once this upcoming season

The Big 12 rushing leader last season, Smallwood's strong test numbers don't quite translate to the field, but he's a well-rounded back with a solid pass pro and receiving skills. Doug Pederson will find a way to get him in the rotation often next season. --Mark Dulgerian

Fuller possesses some of the best read and react skills of any corner in this draft. This allows him to play aggressive with the receiver , but he does need to improve his jam skills at the line of scrimmage. Too many times Fuller has been burned by the vertical passing game.

"He's a good player," Grier said. "He runs good routes. He's worked with (wide receivers coach Tyron) Carrier a lot on technique and it's really bad off for him. And he just happens to be at the right place at the right time on a lot of his stuff. He's a trustworthy guy. I'm going to keep feeding him. I'm going to feed all these guys. They're good players

Belichick and Alabama head coach, Nick Saban are very good friends and they both run very similar defenses with Belichick showing a liking towards defensive players who played for Alabama under Nick Saban illustrated by Donta Hightower, Vinnie Sunseri, Xzavier Dickson and Brandon Deadrick being players Belichick has snapped up who also sported Crimson Tide colours. One of the traits Belichick admires is versatility and versatility is the name of the game for Cyrus Jones who came into Alabama as a 4-star wide receiver before switching to cornerback in his sophomore campaign, he is also an excellent return man as shown by his four punt return touchdowns in college. Jones projects to be the No. 3 cornerback behind Superbowl hero, Malcolm Butler and Logan Ryan and has done a good job in camp of jamming receivers at the line and knocking players off their routes. Jones’ competitiveness has already stood out at camp to teammate Logan Ryan who was quoted as saying “I’m not one to grade people, I’m not Coach Belichick, but I can just tell, the kid’s an athlete, the kid’s a competitor. You see that in the locker room. You see that on the field. He fits right in with what we’re trying to do, and I think the whole bunch of rookies and Justin Coleman and all those guys are doing a great job of just competing every

“The thing that jumped out first watching him was his first-step takeoff. This is a guy that can really gain ground on his first two steps as an edge rusher. So he really pressures the outside shoulders and blockers,” said Eagles Vice President of Player Personnel Joe Douglas to reporters after the draft.

"I think he’s worked extremely hard, all last year…on the practice squad,” McCoy said. The success he had last night in the return game didn’t surprise me at all.”

Boykin showed the Seattle coaches that he was capable when he first came in to replace Wilson and it was clear that his confidence was increasing

After briefly leaving for El Camino Community College to pursue a career at quarterback, the 6-foot-4, 203-pound junior returned to West Virginia University last January and settled in at wide receiver.

Entering the 2017 season, the highly touted redshirt junior has high expectations placed upon him.

“It’s going to all focus off the run game.” said Fisher. “If need be we’re going to hand it off to Todd (Gurley) and if someone says, ‘we’re not going to let you do that’, then we’re going to spread it around. And so when it’s all said and done, I think we’ll be able to look back and I think see Tavon maybe double in catches over what he had last year. And that’s the most important thing; it’s just to get the chunks downfield.”

The redshirt senior missed the first game of the season due to a one-game suspension but after his return he made the most of his final year at West Virginia University and helped his team in the process.

"He is still working on quarterback stuff, so he is not focusing on receiver," Holgorsen said. "He is not getting better at receiver. He will play receiver. He is not Deion Sanders, where he kind of just goes in there and does some things. He is a young kid with a lot of eligibility left. Until he focuses on a specific thing, he is not going to be great at it. He is focusing on quarterback, but you will see him get in there, because we have no depth at receiver right now. He needs to help us out. He is a team player, and we appreciate that."