'16 SC CB Troy Pride Jr. (Notre Dame Signed NLI)

[Sherm Sticky]

Will be at the Senior Bowl with Jalen and Chase

Good for him.

 

[BabyIrish]

Senior Bowl Check In
Height: 5-11.3
Weight: 193
Arms: 31 3/8" (5th among 10 CB's)
Hands: 8 3/8" (7th among CB's)
Wingspan: 73 3/4" (tied for 6th among CB's)

 

[ResLife Hero]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Notre Dame CB Troy Pride Jr. may be the biggest draft board riser this week. <a href="https://t.co/0cKXwvDb9f">pic.twitter.com/0cKXwvDb9f</a></p>— PFF Draft (@PFF_College) <a href="https://twitter.com/PFF_College/status/1220382919342149632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Legacy]

To add to PFF's Day 2 article above:

2020 Senior Bowl Day 1 Practice and Weigh-In Notes (PFF)

Troy Pride Jr., a former outside cornerback for Notre Dame, couldn't have had a better first day at the Senior Bowl. He was a fantastic interview that is aware of where his game needs to get better to start the next level, and his reps in the one-on-one drills were special. He was in SMU wideout James Proche‘s back pocket for the entire practice and even logged a pass breakup on a slant from Pittman.

SENIOR BOWL STOCK WATCH: RISERS AND FALLERS AT EACH POSITION (Draft Network)

CORNERBACKS
Riser: Troy Pride Jr., Notre Dame

Troy Pride Jr. had a huge opportunity to shine with top cornerbacks Jeff Gladney, Kristian Fulton, and Damon Arnette all sitting out of the Senior Bowl, and he rose to the occasion. With excellent speed and quickness, I knew Pride would look good mirroring with his feet in man coverage. I did not expect him to play with so much physicality and disruptiveness at the point of attack. He's made life extremely difficult for these receivers, whether it's been at the line of scrimmage, on the hip pocket after each route break or at the catch point. There is no doubt in my mind that Pride has been the top corner.

 

[Sherm Sticky]

Good for him. Troy knows it, Coach Kelly knows it and coach Lea knows that all Troy needs to do to become a good starting NFL CB is to turn his head around and locate the ball!


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[matman4593]

if only he could have figured that out before the season

 

[longliveautrydenson]

Pride had an easy pick in the Senior Bowl and almost ran it back for a TD. I’ve only seen one player make a catch against him today (for 9 yards). He got blocked badly out of a play, but the guy blocking him was 6’5” 220 lbs.

 

[BobbyMac]

if only he could have figured that out before the season

Wasn't his choice to figure it out.

Hopefully the new guy talks Lea into letting the CB's turn their heads.

 

[BobbyMac]

Good for him. Troy knows it, Coach Kelly knows it and coach Lea knows that all Troy needs to do to become a good starting NFL CB is to turn his head around and locate the ball!

You sure? Source?

 

[GUknights75]

You sure? Source?

Kelly did say that Troy needed to prove he could play the ball in the air in this interview at the senior Bowl practices.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-now/0...re-Dame-prospects-at-2020-Reese-s-Senior-Bowl

 

[Sherm Sticky]

Kelly did say that Troy needed to prove he could play the ball in the air in this interview at the senior Bowl practices.



http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-now/0...re-Dame-prospects-at-2020-Reese-s-Senior-Bowl

Yep. It was also mentioned during the ball game by the announcers that Lea stayed the same thing.

You sure? Source?

I think you were joking by this comment. And if you were it was not clear to everyone.



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[T-Boone]

There is a big buzz around Pride. I see him going in the 3rd round and having a good career. I think we underrated him and blamed him for a few unavoidable TDs.

 

[Old Man Mike]

ALL CBs get beat somewhat regularly in the modern game. The rules are all against them. We need to cut all our pass defense guys a lot of slack. Playing CB nowadays is a percentage game: now you win, now you lose. Pride won almost all of his routes --- just think of how many times the ball didn't even go his way.

(In the bowl game, Orlofsky regularly praised our CBs all over the field.)

 

[Irishize]

There is a big buzz around Pride. I see him going in the 3rd round and having a good career. I think we underrated him and blamed him for a few unavoidable TDs.

Plus, he was filling big shoes in Julian Love. Some fans thought Troy would move over and pick up where Julian left off. He still had a good season & should make a roster.

 

[ThePiombino]

Plus, he was filling big shoes in Julian Love. Some fans thought Troy would move over and pick up where Julian left off. He still had a good season & should make a roster.

I don't think many people expected him to produce at Love's level (at least I certainly didn't). It would be very unfair to do so.

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[NDRock]

I thought we were teaching the DBs not to turn their head. I know this is common now in football.

I thought Pride was very good at ND, just never had many interceptions. Hope he has a great career.

 

[ARALOU]

ALL CBs get beat somewhat regularly in the modern game. The rules are all against them. We need to cut all our pass defense guys a lot of slack. Playing CB nowadays is a percentage game: now you win, now you lose. Pride won almost all of his routes --- just think of how many times the ball didn't even go his way.

(In the bowl game, Orlofsky regularly praised our CBs all over the field.)

I listened to a local radio sports talk show awhile back that had Johnny Majors and Jackie Sherrill on answering questions and telling stories. To be honest, it was very entertaining. One question they answered was if they were coaching today, what would be different? Without hesitation they both said that they would hate to have to coach pass defense. The game is so geared for the offense to exploit the rules that a successful, consisitent pass defense would be mostly luck. LOL

 

[Riddickulous]

Unofficial 4.45 at the combine on his first 40 attempt. A bit disappointing.

 

[Luckylucci]

That was super disappointing.

 

[ab2cmiller]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotreDame?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NotreDame</a> CB Troy Pride Jr. runs an unofficial 4.46 in his second attempt.</p>— Matt Freeman (@mattfreemanISD) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattfreemanISD/status/1234205323810004992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Irishize]

Wow, he was confident he’d be in the 4.3 range. Not even close.

 

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

He weighed in at 193. Did he pack on some pounds for the combine maybe?

EDIT: nope, that was basically his listed weight on the ND roster.

 

[Luckylucci]

Damn, feel bad for him. Those are really bad times for him. This will at least momentarily stop his rise up boards.

 

[Sherm Sticky]

Damn, feel bad for him. Those are really bad times for him. This will at least momentarily stop his rise up boards.

I wouldn’t feel bad for him. Those are still real good times. Daniel Jermiah didn’t say anything like that was disappointing or anything like that. Jermiah just said he has track background and that’s why he ran a fast time at 4.45. Saying that I thought he would run in the high 4.3’s. He can be more relaxed at his pro day and hit the number he wants.


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[Luckylucci]

Well, they did official it at 4.4 so that’s significantly better and changes things quite a bit. However, he was targeting the 4.2’s and has ran substantially faster before, it’s can’t be anything other than disappointing.

 

[Irishize]

Well, they did official it at 4.4 so that’s significantly better and changes things quite a bit. However, he was targeting the 4.2’s and has ran substantially faster before, it’s can’t be anything other than disappointing.

Just saw the officials posted. He finished as the 4th fastest.

 

[Sherm Sticky]

Well, they did official it at 4.4 so that’s significantly better and changes things quite a bit. However, he was targeting the 4.2’s and has ran substantially faster before, it’s can’t be anything other than disappointing.

And Jeff Okudah ran a 4.5. Pride was never going to run in the 4.2’s, I don’t know where that came from. He was never mentioned pre-draft as one of the fastest guys in the draft, top 5 or 10 fastest at least to my knowledge. He will clean it up, be more relaxed at run low 4.3 on his pro day.

He got pretty good reviews for his on field work, which is probably more important for his draft stock.


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[Luckylucci]

And Jeff Okudah ran a 4.5. Pride was never going to run in the 4.2’s, I don’t know where that came from. He was never mentioned pre-draft as one of the fastest guys in the draft, top 5 or 10 fastest at least to my knowledge. He will clean it up, be more relaxed at run low 4.3 on his pro day.

He got pretty good reviews for his on field work, which is probably more important for his draft stock.


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It came from Troy as he said that was the goal. Hard to argue with him.

 

[Luckylucci]

https://www.ndinsider.com/football/...cle_f4744a16-1e2e-5124-ba1d-a1ba028f50ca.html

 

[Sherm Sticky]

It came from Troy as he said that was the goal. Hard to argue with him.

Fair enough that was the goal he had for himself. That’s great that he had that goal. But, running in the 4.2’s was unrealistic. He is fast, but not that fast. What was his 100 meters? I think 10.5 which doesn’t equate to running in the 4.2’s. In that article you posted even the NFL evaluator thought he would run 4.35. Saying that I thought he would be in the mid 4.3’s. So yes a 3.4 is slightly disappointing, but again he has a pretty good on the field workout. And again he will not be so tight and run a blazing time at his pro day I’m sure of that.


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