Following an impressive week at the Senior Bowl, Jim Nagy doesn't think Tyrice Knight will need extensive time to develop before competing to play for the Seahawks.
Hitting the road for his first scouting trip of the fall last August, Senior Bowl director and formerscout Jim Nagy made the long four-plus hour trek from Mobile, Alabama northeast to Jacksonville for an early peek at UTEP quarterback Mason Hardison as a potential invitee for the all-star showcase.
"He's like, 'Man, take a look at my linebacker. This Knight kid, he's the best one I've coached since Mark Simoneau.' That guy had a really good NFL career," Nagy said in an. "So I said 'Really, Simoneau?' He's like 'Yeah, Jim, he's got the same stuff makeup wise that Mark had. He can really run.' And so I'm like cool, I'll check him out.
"If I post stuff in the fall, especially like a video thread about a player, read between the lines," Nagy remarked. "We liked the player, we're not just posting that for the fans. That's recruiting and we wanted Tyrice Knight to see that." Now a little more than a month into his NFL career and his first OTA practices, Knight has been working exclusively with the second-team defense alongside fellow rookie Easton Gibbs, starting his journey in Seattle at the weakside linebacker spot. As most rookies experience out of the gate, he's trying to swim in the middle of a hurricane learning a new defense while playing alongside veterans for the first time, which undoubtedly leads to growing pains.
Coming from a UTEP program that has found minimal success at the FBS level over the years and only has had two other players drafted since 2008, Knight's learning curve may be extensive enough that it will take time before he's ready to push for playing time on defense in Seattle. Some draft pundits even speculated he would need a redshirt season of sorts before he would be able to compete to play on Sundays, handing him a late-round or undrafted grade.
"They've done a great job in Baltimore over the years with linebackers," Nagy commented. "And I think the Seahawks are excited about a guy that has really good eyes and he can run and get to the football and he did some nice things in coverage down here during Senior Bowl week, which you didn't always see on tape. You don't see these guys in a lot of man coverage - very few college linebackers - so I think they got a good one.
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