Colts
Colts QB Anthony Richardson is back healthy and ready to play, with OC Jim Bob Cooter noting that while the team doesn’t want him injured again, they won’t be restricting the play of an exceptional athlete like Richardson.
โPhase One goes to Phase Two and weโre able to get out there a little bit, move around, and work through everything that weโre working through as a team, as an offense,โ Cooter said in a press conference, via Pro Football Talk. โIโll hold all the just absolute, exact details of everybody โ what all exactly weโre doing out there. But itโs good to get him back. Heโs got good energy and itโs been good.โ
โAnthony is an extremely high-level athlete, no doubt about that. But even that, [in college] heโs used to striding into the end zone nice and easy and [now] gosh, that safety is a step faster than he was expecting,โ Cooter continued. โGuys are there just a step quicker. That shows up for every young player, every young quarterback. As youโre evaluating pass concepts, those holes close a little bit sooner. I think that thing will slow down for Anthony. He will be able to evaluate how guys are moving around him a little bit better โ sort of Year 2. Like every young player, especially at the quarterback position, you learn how to take care of yourself and how important it is that weโre out there for a bunch of games and able to sort of manage how we go through a season because it is a longer season in the NFL than college. Be able to go about our business and learn how to sort of play game after game after game and show up every single game.โ
Cooter went on to say that the Colts know they can’t limit Richardson’s athletiscism despite the shoulder injury that cost him a large chunk of his rookie season.
โI mean, heโs got extreme athletic talent like we talked about. You donโt want to restrict that,โ Cooter said. โYou donโt want to say, โHey, never ever move around,โ because gosh, heโs so special. Heโs so special at it and itโs finding that balance, finding that sweet spot of being able to use our athleticism, use his athleticism but like I said, be able to get up, play that next play, play that next game, and thatโs what weโre all trying โ trying to get this thing done. Thatโs what the emphasis is for him.โ
Texans
Texans GM Nick Caserio said that rookie TE Cade Stover was one of their favorite picks in the draft.
โThis is probably one of our favorite football players in the entire draft, regardless of position, because of his mentality, because of his mindsetโand heโs still developing as a player,โ Caserio said, via Texans Wire. โI mean, two years ago he was playing defensive end in the Rose Bowl against Utah. Now, heโs played tight end for two years, and here he is getting picked in the bottom of the fourth round. Heโs [as] blue-collar as they come. From a make-up, traits, toughness, mentality, this is an elite guy.โ
Titans
Titans first-round pick LT JC Latham played right tackle at Alabama, yet GM Ran Carthon expects Latham to start at left tackle for the team in his rookie season.
โI have all the confidence in the world in the kid that heโs going to figure it out just because of his makeup, who he is as a human, who he is as an athlete, who he is as a football player,โ Carthon said, via Turron Davenport of ESPN.
โI was trained at left all my life, and I get to Bama and Evan Neal, a top 10 pick, he was at left so I went to right,โ Latham added, via Jim Wyatt. โGoing back to left, Iโve been training all this offseason, so Iโm ready to go.โ
- According to Paul Kuharsky, the Titans have moved on from scout Tom Roth.
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