Isn’t that what a lot of these elite hybrid defenders are in HS. The best athlete on the field that can do everything but don’t specialize in one. Were either Simmons or JOK considered LB’s as a recruit? Simmons was rated as a S and JOK an ATH per 247.
This guy has the ceiling of the next 1st rd LB/hybrid defender. Because of that I’d have him above them all.
There is no wrong answers on this one IMO, it’s just the philosophy of the one recruiting these players or in our case of who we ultimately wish was in the class for teams we root for.
Its more of the unknown when it come Devon Jackson because as I said before is that we see a freak more or less playing as a DE. Maybe he does have the skills to play in coverage and all the nuances that makes someone a very fast and very athletic football player rather than an athlete that plays football.
I can’t stress this enough, I want him to be Irish but he is by far the most unpredictable of the elite LB’s that ND has a serious chance of landing.
The thing is, is that Jackson might have the most upside with the info we currently have but that unknown, the speculation goes both ways and because of that he also has the lowest floor.
The other guys like JR, Snead and Cheeks also have high upside for there position with higher floors. So like I said before it’s more about philosophy because those guys might not have as high an upside athletically it’s still quite high with less boom or bust factor.
While I’m speaking in general here and not about Jackson is what also gets lost in such discussions is a players will to be the best they can be, football IQ, toughness, coach ability and so on.
