Everyone around Jermaine Burton has been signing his praises this week for the way the light has come on for the rookie, and today Burton spoke for himself.
“I've just been waiting my turn for my opportunity,” he said. “I just told myself whatever opportunity I get, I don't care when it is, just make the best of it.”Andrei Iosivas has struggled to make an impact beyond scramble drills, and Burton is going to start taking a portion of his snaps, even once Higgins is healthy.
The mere mention of those based criteria suggests he wasn’t doing that through the first seven weeks, adding validity to some of the pre-draft knocks on someone many scouts viewed as a first-round talent. “He feels like I do a really good job naturally of getting open,” he said. “There's tweaks in our playbook, and he's genuinely like 'do you.' You do a good job of getting open, so you don't have to necessarily go about this like how the paper route is.
Chase joined everyone else this week who has been praising the rookie from Alabama with a sprinkle of criticism. “He's been hard on me,” Burton said. ‘Don't get me wrong, he's an amazing coach. Like hilarious. But one thing he doesn't do is let me feel like I'm taking time off or anything like that. He stays on me every day. Every day he lets me know what the standard is of playing receiver here.
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