Welcome to Baltimore: Travis Jones

[rossihunter2]

Unbelievable value.

In the year the Ravens finally let Brandon Williams go, we replace him with another smaller school massive nose tackle.

Only this guy is an absolute stud and athletic freak. If he can learn to use his hands more consistently, he's a nose tackle with a legit pass rushing upside.

Dominated the senior bowl (for those waiting to see which senior bowl guy the ravens would draft... we've already got our michigan guy in ojabo at 45)

 

[rossihunter2]

 

[Edgar]

have we ever landed 4 picks out of the gate that would no doubt be on the field and contributing year one ?(excepting Ojabos injury)
Travis upgrades Williams. He's a different nose than either Michael or Williams...saw hin=m at 3tech, 2i, head up alignments 4i.
we could be borrowing a page from Georgia; D line rotations that dont skip a beat.

 

[rossihunter2]

have we ever landed 4 picks out of the gate that would no doubt be on the field and contributing year one ?(excepting Ojabos injury)
Travis upgrades Williams. He's a different nose than either Michael or Williams...saw hin=m at 3tech, 2i, head up alignments 4i.
we could be borrowing a page from Georgia; D line rotations that dont skip a beat.

ive even seen travis out at 5tech - that's not where i think he should be playing but that speaks to his level of athleticism

also worth pointing out... travis jones played like 70% of the snaps at UConn - and they were often in games with 70-100 snaps - no conditioning concerns or snap count concerns with Jones

 

[rossihunter2]

a thread of travis jones at UConn (mentioning that for context because he was basically UConn's only good player) vs Clemson

and dominating

 

[Deebo813]

Atleast he looks like he can actually rush the passer on 3rd downs

 

[airconteka]

Looks like that centre jumped out of the way lol

 

[rossihunter2]

Atleast he looks like he can actually rush the passer on 3rd downs

He needs to refine his hands if he wants to be a consistent pass rusher but he for sure has the wiggle and explosion to become that guy

He absolutely dominated clemson’s OL despite being the only guy on UConn they had to worry about

 

[RavensMania]

Looks like that centre jumped out of the way lol

understandably so

 

[RavensMania]

He needs to refine his hands if he wants to be a consistent pass rusher but he for sure has the wiggle and explosion to become that guy

He absolutely dominated clemson’s OL despite being the only guy on UConn they had to worry about

and there are no issues with his conditioning. He plays 70% of the snaps and U Conn regularly played 100 snaps.

 

[JoeyFlex5]

Man I’m so happy we got this dude where we did, I was sweating for like 6 picks and begging for a trade up, and he fell to us and we must have sprinted that card in. Felt so obvious at the time but I was still surprised we did it, always feels like we whiff on something so obvious on day 2

 

[rossihunter2]

Man I’m so happy we got this dude where we did, I was sweating for like 6 picks and begging for a trade up, and he fell to us and we must have sprinted that card in. Felt so obvious at the time but I was still surprised we did it, always feels like we whiff on something so obvious on day 2

first 6 picks were slam-dunks
wasn't sold on Linderbaum at 14
but with every subsequent pick it's made the Linderbaum pick at 25 look even better

also it's hilarious that we've drafted him and Faalele in the same class lol

 

[RavensMania]

Man I’m so happy we got this dude where we did, I was sweating for like 6 picks and begging for a trade up, and he fell to us and we must have sprinted that card in. Felt so obvious at the time but I was still surprised we did it, always feels like we whiff on something so obvious on day 2

This day 2 killed it. Just feels like out day 2 scouting has been much better. Sure we have had some whiffs with Ferguson, Boykin, and tbd Phillips and Cleveland, but we have had some hits with JK Dobbins, Madubuike, Ojabo and Travis Jones. We could even add Stephens to the mix because he looks like a baller as well and Duvernay is going to get more chances this season also.

Sure it's too soon to know for sure, but these picks didn't give me the 'wtf' moment we have had when drafting on day 2.

 

[RavensMania]

looking forward to hearing about the practice battles with Jones and Linderbaum

 

[JoeyFlex5]

looking forward to hearing about the practice battles with Jones and Linderbaum

Jones is gonna get the better of him in these I’d think. Linderbaum plays best in a unit, jones can flat out dominate dudes 1v1

 

[drjohnnyfever]

Run D stands out.