Halfway through Cam roomThe showcase of the professional day of the Miami University on Monday, things finally became free in a way that the training sessions of the quarter-Arrière usually prefent.
The quarter of the hurricanes and the first choice presumed next month NFL draft Has cliche under the center and inverted swivel in front of a false rush to the pass, rolling in a backpedal in 10 steps. Fluking back and on his left, he unleashed a tight spiral with high archiving to his teammate Xavier Restrepo, who directed an external route from the position of the slot machine. Fund 56 meters on the left touch line, the balloon fell perfectly into Restrepo’s arms in a flawless stride.
A “woooooooo”, resonated through the practice center, as well as a handful of applause.
It is a pass that you will probably never see in an NFL game, unless you are motivated by an act of despair. But given that this is what to win the overall choice n ° 1 represents in this league – despair – these moments of training are always somewhat appropriate for the quarters. Sometimes the theaters take place by throwing football 50 meters from your knees (Josh Allen). Other times, it’s a pass of 80 yards (Patrick Mahomes). And sometimes he does what Ward did, illustrating an intriguing combination of leg play and strength of the arms on a pass, he will have, hopefully, will never need to throw the NFL.
He had to make an impression on any team that holds the overall choice n ° 1 of the recovery, which is clearly what Ward had in mind in the professional day on Monday. At one point before training, Ward learned the gaze of the leaders of Tennessee Titans – who are weighing the options with this superior choice – and letting them know where he expects to be selected.
“I said:” I solidify it today “,” said Ward in an interview with the NFL network. “They know what I said. I made sure they heard me. ”
Surely, the Titans knew his intentions, after a motorcycle of the team The senior executives and the coaches took Ward for dinner on Sunday before his training. Now everyone knows it too. The training brought together at least one representative of all the League teams, including a healthy contingent of the New York giants in the general manager Joe Schoen, the attacking coordinator Mike Kafka and the shea Tierney quarter coach. Interestingly, the frequentation of the Cleveland Browns presented neither the general manager Andrew Berry or the head coach Kevin Stefanski.
‘He’s a bit pasty’
So what does it mean? Well, first, training.
Three staff talent assessors who were present have spent fairly standard positive journals of the professional day of Ward, renting its strength and speed of the arm, as well as its rhythm and some common criticism on the game of legs which will require adjustment. He threw the depth effortlessly and checked the typical boxes. We can say that the biggest raves were for the speed with which Ward took the ball out of his hands with the driving force on short to intermediary routes. Although his arm is not evaluated with Allen and Mahomes, he is certainly considered solidly in the second level of the League. An assessor noted an advantage in this regard.
“He always has a (physical) college and that will improve (in the NFL),” said the assessor. “It is a little pasty, which you see in a way with the quarter-rear of the university. It will become stronger in its base and half-section, and the arms become stronger in this way too. It just needs a good program (strength and packaging).”
Overall, criticisms did not do anything to ignore the Ward needle as the most likely overall choice in the project. And now there are growing signs, the titans will remain of your choice and will select it.
More signs that Cam Ward appears for a lock for titans at n ° 1
Recently two weeks ago, Ward expressed a conviction to NFL staff whom he thought that the giants were likely to switch to the superior choice to take him. But the titans now seem to focus on the choice with the first choice, rather than treating until the choice n ° 3 of the giants.
Here are the signs:
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First and foremost, the total lack of involvement of Tennessee in the pursuit of a serious candidate to take the departure post Will Levis Long says. Instead, they chose to sign a backup of the support in Brandon AllenWho spent three seasons as a replacement for Cincinnati when the current head coach of Titans Brian Callahan was an attacking coordinator for Bengals. This decision is interpreted as Callahan adding a player who can help bring a young quarter to teaching him the system that Callahan brought from his days with Bengals.
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Several sources of the league have told Yahoo Sports that the Titans were on Levis as a departure candidate, and have hypothesized that Tennessee could make him available in the contribution of the draft or after.
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It is a strange but often precise data point: the titans have not brought their heavy personnel strikers and coaching to watch Ward’s training. They also brought part of their internal team on social networks to training, which has been a basic decision in recent years when teams that hold the first global choice have focused on a quarter.
When you compare this to the Browns not sending a complete contingent to watch Ward – knowing that they will probably not go from n ° 2 to overall choice n ° 1 – and the Giants adding Jameis Winston and always entertaining the signature of Russell Wilson Or Aaron RodgersHe begins to paint an image for the first three choices of the project.
Monday, the image was sometimes free for Cam Ward and the Titans. But it was also the point of all the effort.
