Texas Cornerback Jalen Green in the Portal

Submitted by morepete on January 15th, 2021 at 7:05 PM

As said in the header. He seems like an instant take if Michigan can get him to come -- Harbaugh recruited him hard before he committed to Texas.

A bit more about him: https://texassports.com/sports/football/roster/jalen-green/9774

Top 50 composite recruit in the class of 2018, has played in almost every game since stepping on campus, but never became a started on the outside and is leaving with Sark in place. Would be great to get him.

Saying that, I'm sure he's somehow going to wind up on OSU.

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evenyoubrutus

January 16th, 2021 at 9:35 AM ^

Obviously bringing guys in who can improve your team is a good idea, but my understanding from listening to people like Brian and Seth is that Michigan did do a decent job of recruiting some talented CBs, but they were not a good fit for all the man coverage schemes that Brown was running. I.e. DGW, McBurrows, Turner, and Gray all are good players for a zone heavy defense. They also have Seldon, Perry and Dennis. So I don't know, are we really that screwed at CB? Especially since we also have a couple of veteran talented safeties. Seems like we could have a very good secondary next year if the coaching and scheme are done right.

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gm1234

January 16th, 2021 at 10:03 AM ^

I wish more of those CBs got a chance for live game experience to see what they could do. Since it wouldn’t have cost them eligibility what is the worst that could happen, they get burnt for a deep pass/TD? After it was obvious the season was gonna be a lost cause it would’ve been nice to see a lot of the young guys get in the games 

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MJ14

January 16th, 2021 at 2:09 PM ^

Gemon Green is definitely at least a two. He’s young so he could develop into a 1. But he definitely is good enough to be a 2. Gray a 3 and Seldon a speedy guy who can cover slot dudes. The problem is Michigan needs a 1. If you got Jalen you could probably run it with both Greens and have Gray/Seldon split snaps depending on the situation as the number 3. 

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MaizeBlueA2

January 16th, 2021 at 2:47 PM ^

I disagree.

Gemon Green is serviceable...but when I look at elite teams, he's not even close unless CB is that team's weakness.

He's passable.

Channing Stribling was a legit #2.

When I say Lewis, Clark, Stribling, Hill, Long, Thomas...Gemon Green ain't touching those guys.

We need NFL level talent.

Gray is a skinny safety or zone CB only. We haven't even seen Seldon because he got COVID.

 

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MJ14

January 16th, 2021 at 5:51 PM ^

Going to disagree quite a bit here. Green is every bit where Clark was going into his 3rd season. Clark had 9 pass breakups and 3 ints his entire career. Green had 9 PBUs just this season. Stribling was also essentially right where Green is as well as a CB. Stribling had 22 pbus in his career. 17 of those coming his senior season. So again at this point Green is already at least where Stribling was. Stribling only started 4 games his junior year. Both Clark and Stribling took a while to come on. Clark bounced back and forth between safety and CB and Stribling had no interest in tackling for a while. I don’t think we’re going to agree on this. Both were fringe NFL guys who aren’t In the league anymore. I can easily see Green following that projection. 

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