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Jaguars HC Liam Coen said fourth-round RB Bhayshul Tuten has been solid in their offseason program but admitted he still needs development.
“I think he’s done a solid job,” Coen said, via the team’s YouTube. “He needs a lot more work, which all those guys do.”
Coen said the biggest adjustment for running backs from college to the NFL is in the blocking game.
“A lot of the running backs, man, it’s a huge jump from protection systems in college to the pros and that’s usually where you see the tempo slowing down for them,” Coen said. “Like playing slower, thinking more, when pass pro starts to kind of bog the mind. Then let’s call it, you got five different tracks of footwork for a running back to learn.”
Coen added that all the information they are giving to running backs can slow them down at this point of the offseason.
“We’re trying to teach the why and sometimes that can slow a back down in this phase, especially when it’s tag, and people are in awkward positions when you’re trying to stick your foot in the ground to run vertical to run through them, you can’t. It’s awkward.”
UFL executive and former Cowboys FB Daryl Johnston says he has done a lot to help CB Damon Arnette make it back to the NFL after a rough start with the Raiders.
Titans first-round QB Cam Ward has been hosting meetings this off-season with the team’s rookie skill players before the start of OTA’s and he’s been putting in language to the offense that helps get everyone on the same page.
“In a way, those meetings, where Ward leads the room, were his own way of working to put that new language to work and get his own practice at using it,” SI’s Albert Breer wrote. “Of course, it’s not the only way the challenge is being attacked in Nashville. He also has a meeting with coaches every morning where the staff puts one protection in, going through the rules and the what-ifs in-depth on each one. In the afternoons, the coaches have him run another meeting with the rookies to give him full ownership of what they’re teaching.“
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