How Leonard Floyd's safety exemplifies his development

Great article on the technique of rushing the passer. This game is a lot more cerebral than people think it is.

You know what I find funny...and I just thought of it the other day... a lot is made about Floyds weight, and some used it as a knock as to why we shouldn't draft him, but a lot of people wanted to draft Randy Gregory 2 years ago and he's the same weight.

Agreed.  But there will be more to Floyd's game than just being an edge rusher.  A lot more.  I admit that I wan't enamored with the Floyd pick initially.  I hadn't even researched him at all during the draft due to his lack of defensive stats and his size.

But after the draft I dug pretty deep on the guy and was very pleasantly surprised.  Go back to his YouTube college videos. The guy can cover and I mean cover in the passing game.  We have potentially the most complete OLB in the game playing for us.  He will get much better as a rusher but he will get much better in other phases of the game as well. It will be fun to watch him develop.