CB Joseph
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He will likely travel and play special teams. The kid is benefiting from this odd year with no eligibility lost. Despite all his accolades, he doesn't have a lot of actual football experience since high school.
Hard to say if he will travel or not. My guess is not. They brought 11 DB's the first week. Originally in my travel roster I had Cam&Deontai excluded and had Joseph replacing one of them, but a fellow poster pointed out that each are out for the first half only. (I forgot that fact)
so I put them back in. I think if one of the 11 DB's that traveled the first week was out for a future game then he would be traveling.
So for this game they have 9 DB's for the first half and for special teams. Cam was on the KR, Punt and Punt return teams while Deontai was on Kick off. I think Delancy filled in for Deontai on KO and I think Lynum filled in on Punts. They kind of did a pot luck on KR's so that's not an issue. Can't remember what Cam did on that PR team. (If he was a PR/punt safety, or a bullet blocker.)
so I put them back in. I think if one of the 11 DB's that traveled the first week was out for a future game then he would be traveling.
So for this game they have 9 DB's for the first half and for special teams. Cam was on the KR, Punt and Punt return teams while Deontai was on Kick off. I think Delancy filled in for Deontai on KO and I think Lynum filled in on Punts. They kind of did a pot luck on KR's so that's not an issue. Can't remember what Cam did on that PR team. (If he was a PR/punt safety, or a bullet blocker.)
Hard to believe a JC recruit with the hype he had couldn't even make the travel squad when a couple of first team DB's have to sit out half the game.
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Cam, I believe was our only punt and kick returner for week 1. Myles Farmer should pop in at safety as he did in the first game and sophomore Quinton Newsome at corner. For nickel situations possibly Domann moves over as Pheldarius Payne saw quite a bit of action week 1. Also Possible that Delancy or Lynum comes in.
Rhamir Johnson returned the majority of the kicks against OSU.
OSU punted twice. Cam was back for one and Wandale was back for the other.
Nadab Joseph is like Keem Green last year. He got here way late and is playing catch up with the rest of the DBs and he had no power 5 S&C. Fisher said he’s coming along and getting to the place he should be and doing some good things. I don’t see him doing much this year and that’s fine. He will come back next year still a sophomore and will still have 3 years to play. He’s got plenty of time to do something here.
Hard to believe that what a few dorks on the internet rated him from high school doesn't really matter that much.
After all he was a 4* recruit wasn't he? He was probably close to a 5* on some service somewhere so that seals it for me. Or was he a high 3* who was a 4* on some site and really should have been a 4# or 5*.
Has nothing to do with the fact he could hardly find the field as a CC athlete.
“Has nothing to do with the fact he could hardly find the field as a CC athlete.”
I see you’re just talking to just to talk, it’s funny how some people do that and have no clue what’s going on. Joseph joined the JUCO ranks injured and everyone involved (himself included) thought it best for him to miss the first year there and heal up (redshirt), so he did.
The very next season he either hurt his knee or wasn’t quite healed up yet from the previous injury and played limited snaps as a RS freshman and when he was finally good to go again, his coach had him miss the final few games to focus on his grades so he could join a power 5 team like he planned. It had nothing to do with his skills or talents. Injury/s derailed him the last couple years. When he was able to play, everyone could see the talents he had and the type of DB he could be (why he was a 5.9 4 star DB). He’s healthy now and just playing catch up.
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Yet hard also to believe 90% of the posters on this board were thrilled with his commitment. They must have believed all those dorks. Had he signed with Alabama there would have been much wringing of the hands. Laughing
In fairness, he still has a shot to be good. Just not as quickly as we hoped.
I was thrilled to get his commitment and I still am. I thought he would contribute early because he has talent. That talent hasn't gone away, he just needs to learn the defense. I have no problem with that especially when the coaches & teammates say how eager he is to learn and work. That's awesome.
Exactly how quickly did people expect him to contribute? He didn't even get here till August, no-one was allowed to even put on pads to practice till October and he was behind 4 players with gameday experience going into whatever they called fall camp in 2020.
The dude has had what? 6 weeks (if that) of actual D1 practice after playing 5 games last year due to a knee injury and you think he should have been ready to go play meaningful snaps of Big Ten football before now?
Yes we took him away from LSU Alabama and Georgia but still. C'mon.
The dude has had what? 6 weeks (if that) of actual D1 practice after playing 5 games last year due to a knee injury and you think he should have been ready to go play meaningful snaps of Big Ten football before now?
Yes we took him away from LSU Alabama and Georgia but still. C'mon.
Yes, no doubt he was hindered by a late arrival for sure. On the other hand there was extended training time available this year with the late start and he did have previous JC experience where he did well.
Too early to make an assessment for sure other than he's not going to be an early major contributor.