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be phenomenal or be forgotten / Vasco #9 / Seleção Brasileira #90

[John Frascella (Football) @NFLFrascella]

TJ Watt… doing INSANE things… he’s mid-spin move mid-pass rush… sees the screen leaking out… breaks out of it and gets the critical PBU on third down… this is a superstar keeping his team in the game

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

ONE OF THE MOST ATHLETIC PLAYS YOU WILL EVER SEE:

#Steelers LB TJ Watt was rushing the passer when he noticed the running back sneaking out into the flat.

Watt immediately SPUN AROUND, tracked the football and swatted it right out of the RB’s hands.

🤯

[Football Performances @NFLPerformances]

TJ Watt is the smartest defender in the NFL

[Ghost of Adam Gase @GhostOfAdamGase]

JROD is one of them ones

[Lack Meftwich 🌵🦅🦅 @lackmeftwich806]

Almost like he should’ve been a Heisman finalist

[Rookie Watch @RookieWatxh]

Jacob Rodriguez has been KRYPTONITE for some of the NFL’s most elite RB’s.

Rodriguez bottled up Ashton Jeanty AND Kenneth Walker in just his first three games.

The Dolphins rookie LB is already one of the league’s MOST INSTINCTIVE LB’s 😳🔥

[ABSOLUTE BRAZILIAN @Absolutebrazil]

Simplesmente soltou essa e voltou a fazer hambúrguer na chapa

[The List - Dolphins Podcast 🐬 @TheListFinsPod]

Jordyn Brooks joked he was mad Jacob Rodriguez didn't score after his interception vs. Kansas City:

"I got a block; we had daylight. All he had to do was break one tackle and he could've scored." 🤣

"Crazy athleticism. It was a great play. It's only up (for him). He's going to keep ascending, getting more comfortable. As far as the green dot, communicating, getting guys lined up. I'm excited and proud of his trajectory. My job is to keep teaching him anything I can. Sky is the limit."

#PhinsUp

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Jacob Rodriguez was born in Hastings, Minnesota. His family moved to Texas when he was ten.

He played quarterback at Rider High School in Wichita Falls.

He went to the University of Virginia and spent his freshman year as a utility guy. Ten carries. Eight catches. Not a starter at anything.

Then the head coach stepped down and Rodriguez went into the transfer portal, late, after most of the spots in college football were already gone.

Texas Tech said yes. But there was no scholarship left, and there was nowhere for him to live.

Here is what he did about that, in his own words.

"It was so late. I didn't have a place to stay. There were no scholarship spots, and so, luckily, my brother went to school there, and so I slept on the ground next to his bed for a semester and earned that scholarship spot later on."

He slept on his brother's floor for a semester.

And Texas Tech moved him to linebacker, a position he had never played.

Think about what that actually asks of a person. He had spent his entire life with the ball in his hands, reading defenses. Now he was the defense, learning it from nothing, against people who had been doing it since they were children.

Year one, 29 tackles. Year two, an injury cost him most of the season and he played five games.

Year three, 127 tackles.

Year four, 128 tackles, 11 for loss, 4 interceptions and 7 forced fumbles, and he was a unanimous All American.

Then the awards came in and they all had his name on them. The Chuck Bednarik Award. The Butkus Award. The Lombardi Award. The Bronko Nagurski Trophy.

No player in the history of Texas Tech had ever won any of those. He won all four in the same year.

He finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting, which was more votes than any defensive player in the country got.

The Miami Dolphins took him 43rd overall.

On Sunday he played the Kansas City Chiefs. He intercepted Patrick Mahomes. He tackled Kenneth Walker behind the line of scrimmage three separate times.

He is now one of the betting favorites for NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year. As of this week he sits at plus 400, a hair in front of David Bailey at plus 450, who used to line up next to him at Texas Tech.

Now the honest part, because it matters. Miami lost that game 24-10 and the Dolphins are 0-3. Nobody is handing out awards in September, and a rookie on a losing team is a long way from anything.

One more thing about him. His wife Emma is an aviation officer in the United States Army. She flies Black Hawk helicopters.

Four years ago he was a former high school quarterback with no scholarship and no apartment, sleeping on the ground beside his brother's bed in Lubbock.

[Big Cam @TTS_CAM3]

The Cam Jordan effect ‼️he almost single handily saved Chase Young and not he currently having a all pro caliber season because of that 💯

[Doctor Gridiron @DrGridiron_MD]

Look at Jacob Rodriguez take on offensive linemen instead of trying to run around them. He attacks the block, takes it on, sheds it and gets to the football. That’s how you play linebacker. 🥹

[Chris Rosvoglou @RosvoglouReport]

Genuinely one of the best signings the Saints have had in the past decade.

We're now seeing the best version of Chase Young and he's a top 10 defensive end.

[KG ❄️🏆 @ShoutoutKG]

Super Bowl MVP
A Rookie LB

Met in the A Gap, and the rookie won. #DROY

[PassRushDiary🦅 @PassRushDiary]

Chase Young through three weeks

[Christian C. Sam @ShowinStatsSam]

Did the Dolphins find the DROTY at Linebacker?! 🔥🤯

[Football Performances @NFLPerformances]

Sonny Styles is already making game changing plays like a seasoned NFL defender.

5 TKL, 1 INT, 2 PD, 1 FF, 1 QBH vs Seahawks

The rookie linebacker is putting himself right in the middle of the DROY conversation.

[Joe Schad @schadjoe]

Miami Dolphins LB Jacob Rodriguez is the first NFL rookie to record at least five tackles, three tackles for loss and an interception in a single
game since Tampa Bay’s Lavonte David at Denver on Dec. 2, 2012.

[Austin Jackson Stan @lit_phins]

What’s crazy and I’m sure I’m not the only one, I instantly knew the second he was drafted that he would be a star. It was the most un-Grier like pick I had ever seen bc he was such an obvious stud. That’s when I realized that things were different now with this franchise.

[Lu_FromDade @LuFromdade]

And here’s what it looks like in the huddle.. Natural Born Leader #PhinsUp

[Ghost of Adam Gase @GhostOfAdamGase]

Jacob Rodriguez is speaking as if he’s a 10 year veteran leader on this team.

Absolutely incredible draft pick top to bottom.