Kenny willekes is a guy I forgot about after getting a look at him last year. Watched a game of his and came away impressed and I’m gonna dive deeper and get a good write up on him but it’s too late right now. First glance what I see is a very flexible edge bender with hands to make him slippery, very subtle hand moves where you barely see it but he completely disengages with it, just like a little hand swat and chest jab combined to make light work of the blocker, in the game I watched he seemed to do it consistently where he’s just engaged and then a little hand action and he’s clean, you barely even see what he’s doing.
Also Carlos basham Jr is a guy I’m looking into, watched 2 games of his, really unimpressed from the first watch and much more impressed after the second, he’s a tall, physical, handsy rusher that loves to work inside, low pad level and a real driving style of rush and he loves the finish by bullying his man wide and then countering in, really solid spin move for a big man and he uses it often and effectively, works well from the wide 9 firing out of the 4 point stance, that’s where he seems to have his fastest first step. Low pads but lacks bend around the corner, I wouldn’t say he’s stiff, just tall and heavy, he has his moments of flexibility but they’re few and far between. All in all I’d say he looks like a strange medium between zadarius smith and Charles Harris, and I say this favorably because Harris did have a filthy spin move.
Getting in my film study groove lately, I should have a good number of write ups between now and the new year