Matt Jones

I agree Ninth pick is to high for a guy who is a project at best. yes I agree he is a freak and is an amazing athelete. I have witnessed it time n again whenever my longhorns have gone up again arkansas. He was a one man show for that team!!
If we can somehow get a 2nd round pick we should definetly get him then if he is available. I don't seem him playing TE as he is not interested in playing that position. I think he opens the game for us with some trick plays especially in the red zone!!
I can't wait for the season to begin!! HTTR


Ninth overall is probably high, since we'd convert him to a position he's never played before. At 9 overall I think you want to be pretty darn sure of what you're getting. This guy has lots of promise, but in the end you really don't know what kind of WR he's going to be.

I think the Skins would have to do some maneuvering to get him. They'd have to trade down to grab picks later in the 1st round and grab a 2nd rounder.

If I were a personnel guy I would consider drafting him and figuring out what to do with him afterwards, but in all seriousness I think Matt Jones is a guy who can create mismatches all over the field. As a quarterback, it'd be hard to try to put a spy on him since he is much faster and about as strong as just about any linebacker. As a receiver, it would piss a cornerback off to know that jamming isn't really an option and if you let him go and try to cover him step for step you'll probably get burned. Also, with his height and crazy vertical he could get just about any jump ball over the corner.

Just to throw this out there: remember how Joe Gibbs really utilized the H-back position, this could be one of the guys that can play a new hybrid type position.

actually i read he ran 4.37, i say at that spped with his size and weight he's got it going on over mike williams. i'm sorry guys but i just get all excited about mister willams unless he can spped up some. a year out of school plus the jump to the pros is very tough, not saying he can't do it but will be suprised to see him make an impact in the first year, (foot note he was done wrong by the ncaa), just not the type of reciever to take over a game. recivers in our system are not required to be all that, ala the smurfs, small and quick. and we still won the super bowl. i think we should draft a wr but not high.

I'm never a fan on taking a big gamble on someone changing from QB to anything out of college. It's a big gamble. If we can trade up our 3rd rounder (and gardner maybe) for a decent 2nd pick we may be able to pick him up. Other than that, I doubt we have a legitimate shot at him.

Eric Crouch ring any bells?

56Fan - the thing about Williams has never been his speed. It's his ability to nab any jump-ball, and never dropping a pass that makes him so valuable. His speed concerns me a bit too, but he'd be great because of the sure hands especially for a team that moved the ball decently on occassions, but had trouble getting the score out of it.

I don't think Gibbs likes McCants enough to make him our Monk (though I wouldn't be opposed to seeing that)

could he be a TE or is he holding to be a WR i mean he could be the best TE in the game we just need to know if he can block. i just don't know how good his hands are because he was a QB and i don't know how some of u can say "he has better hands [than mike williams] by all accounts"

If he's switched to TE he'd be somewhat of a waste in this offense. Though TEs get a lot of playtime in Gibbs's offense, they also don't catch THAT many balls. He'd probably make an excellent Hback for someone, but if we had a guy with great hands and speed I'm sure Gibbs would get him the ball some! Cooley Hback, this guy at TE would be nasty.

does anyone think that we may actually get this guy by trading down or anything like that

i mean he is an athlete but i would like more experience at catching. He does have skill though. i mean there are athletes in the draft like Fabian Washington who clocked an awsome 3.28 at the CB position and ofcourse Derrick johnson who may be the best athlete in the draft. Williamson w/ great speed at WR who espn says is the fastest guy in the draft and that one guy that self proclaimed himself the fastest man in college sports who got the a 4.3 at the combine. all i am saying there are athletes but that as we all know isn't the only thing, that is why matt jones isn't projected to go in the top 16 or even in the first round

If he's switched to TE he'd be somewhat of a waste in this offense. Though TEs get a lot of playtime in Gibbs's offense, they also don't catch THAT many balls. He'd probably make an excellent Hback for someone, but if we had a guy with great hands and speed I'm sure Gibbs would get him the ball some! Cooley Hback, this guy at TE would be nasty.
I C is he considering being a TE though i heard him say he is focusing on WR i would love it if he could block, not many good TE exept Heath in the draft


200!!!

if this kid has a good head on his shoulders then no one is goign to be able to cover this guy. We arent going to take him at 9, but why not. 9 is where our pick is, yea you might feel better taking him in the 2nd round but no player is a guarantee and we dont have a second rounder. If we can trade down, then great. But you know someone is going to take a gamble on this kid. I wouldnt be surprised if he ended up top 20.

Jones is unpolished and defiently a project he wasen't catching ball's to cleanly at the combine he will need a lot of work, I don't see him going in the first, but second I would say defiently.