Wheatley was a finalist for the Western Michigan HC job too.

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Wheatley was a finalist for the Western Michigan HC job too.

 

Yeah, the Michigan board was pretty worried about him leaving. Then we were pretty happy when he didn't get it because it meant we'd retain him.

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Long prior. 

 

Wheatley was drafted the inaugural year of the Jaguars franchise. 

 

Ironically he ended up finishing his NFL playing career as part of a RB duo with the guy drafted right after him that year. Napolean Kaufman. They were drafted 17th and 18th in 1995. 

 

 Right after both were taken,  the Jaguars drafted RB James Stewart,  who had the best NFL career of the 3 RBs.

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Yeah, the Michigan board was pretty worried about him leaving. Then we were pretty happy when he didn't get it because it meant we'd retain him.

All these guys we're hiring have pretty good pedigrees.

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Former Michigan running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley is joining the Jaguars staff, likely in the same capacity, tweets Alex Marvez of SiriusXM NFL Radio. Jacksonville has already announced that several members of their offensive coaching staff — including play-caller Nathaniel Hackett — will remain in place under new head coach Doug Marrone, but the club has been silent of the fate of current RBs coach Kelly Skipper. Wheatley, who was under consideration for Western Michigan’s head coaching job, last coached in the NFL from 2013-14 with the Bills.


Kelly Skipper is still on staff??????

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Fournette to Jax 

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Fournette to Jax

Wouldn't hate it.

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Fournette to Jax 

 

Wouldn't hate it.

I don't think anybody would hate it, but where would he be selected at, is the deciding factor.

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Fournette to Jax 

 

 

 

I'd still rather trade down, but I certainly wouldn't mind it. I prefer D'Onta Foreman, but Fournette is a fantastic player as well and should finally get our run game kick started. The only thing that concerns me is the injuries. If he can overcome that, he could easily be a star RB in the league. 

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I'd still rather trade down, but I certainly wouldn't mind it. I prefer D'Onta Foreman, but Fournette is a fantastic player as well and should finally get our run game kick started. The only thing that concerns me is the injuries. If he can overcome that, he could easily be a star RB in the league. 

If they draft Fournette #4 overall (or any RB), he better be the next Adrian Peterson.. At the very least.

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If they draft Fournette #4 overall (or any RB), he better be the next Adrian Peterson.. At the very least.

 

 

I see him as the next Christian Okoye.

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I see him as the next Christian Okoye.

Which isn't anywhere close to the #4 overall pick in any draft.

 

Yea, we'll all be happy with Fournette in the 2nd round, perfect.

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There may be something about Wheatley I don't know, but how does hiring a RB coach mean RB at 4 any more than hiring Fewell mean we are drafting a DB in the first round...or any other positional coach we are going to hire?

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There may be something about Wheatley I don't know, but how does hiring a RB coach mean RB at 4 any more than hiring Fewell mean we are drafting a DB in the first round...or any other positional coach we are going to hire?

 

It doesn't. 

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Which isn't anywhere close to the #4 overall pick in any draft.

 

Yea, we'll all be happy with Fournette in the 2nd round, perfect.

 

 

Christian Okoye was one of the dominant runners of his time. The problem was that with all the contact he faced, he was plagued by injuries and had a shorter career. When he was on the field though, he was almost unstoppable.

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Christian Okoye was one of the dominant runners of his time. The problem was that with all the contact he faced, he was plagued by injuries and had a shorter career. When he was on the field though, he was almost unstoppable.

^Agree.


That guy was good,,, very good.

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I'd still rather trade down, but I certainly wouldn't mind it. I prefer D'Onta Foreman, but Fournette is a fantastic player as well and should finally get our run game kick started. The only thing that concerns me is the injuries. If he can overcome that, he could easily be a star RB in the league.

I'll take Cook and no other RB is close. D'Onta Foreman faced zero top 50 defenses in collage football this year and put up roughly the same numbers as Cook who faced 7 top 50 defenses and 5 top 15 defenses, had more yards after contact then any other back, made people miss more tackles then any other back and got contacted before the line scrimmage more then any other back and I'm willing to say he will have the fastest combine 40. I like fournette but he is to injury prone and I just like what Cook has done through this collage career as a whole much more.

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Christian Okoye was one of the dominant runners of his time. The problem was that with all the contact he faced, he was plagued by injuries and had a shorter career. When he was on the field though, he was almost unstoppable.

"The Nigerian Nightmare"

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What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.







 

"The Nigerian Nightmare"

I'd forgotten that moniker. 

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Christian Okoye was one of the dominant runners of his time. The problem was that with all the contact he faced, he was plagued by injuries and had a shorter career. When he was on the field though, he was almost unstoppable.

 

  An additional factor to Christian Okoye's shorter NFL career is by the time of his first NFL regular season game,  he was 26 years old.   

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