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Who the Hell is This Jayrone Elliott Character?

Monty McMahon by Monty McMahon
August 19, 2014
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Jayrone Elliott

Jayrone Elliott went from complete unknown to flavor of the week in the span of four plays.

That’s how many snaps Elliott played on Saturday against St. Louis and he certainly made the most of them. The outside linebacker had three sacks in that span and forced a fumble on one of them.

Now, we’re going to largely ignore the fact that he was matched up against the oft-abused Sean Hooey for those four snaps. But let’s be honest for a moment — that guy is awful. I mean downright horrible.

At any rate, Elliott certainly took advantage of his opportunities and he’s shown some things in practice as well. Early in training camp, Elliott was beating just about everyone in one-on-one pass rushing drills. So, there’s reason to believe that maybe he has a future in the NFL.

It might very well start off on the practice squad, but Elliott is obviously someone to keep an eye on.

You already know how the Packers acquired him. Undrafted free agent! Booyah!

Elliott played defensive end at Toledo, where he was first-team All MAC as a senior. In 2013, he registered 70 tackles, including nine sacks and 14 tackles for loss. He also forced five fumbles.

Elliott is 6-3, 255 and could probably stand to add a little weight. However, he’s shown a knack for getting after the passer and a nose for the football. Those are two things that will keep you on an NFL roster.

So why didn’t this guy get drafted? That’s a good question. He didn’t really appear to be on anyone’s radar at all.

He’s what you’d call undersized for one, having played collegiately at 240. The only other knock we could find is that Elliott is sometimes too aggressive and over pursues.

So maybe the Packers will be getting the last laugh on the rest of the league.

Now, racking up three sacks against Sean Hooey is easy. Making the Green Bay Packers isn’t and Elliott is really going to have a tough time.

The Packers will presumably keep six outside linebackers. Four of those will most certainly be Clay Matthews, Julius Peppers, Mike Neal and Nick Perry. Elliott is competing for one of the remaining two spots with holdovers Nate Palmer and Child Warrior Andy Mulumba, and fourth-round draft pick Carl Bradford. Adrian Hubbard, who played at Alabama and was probably the Packers most-heralded undrafted free agent signing, is also in the mix.

This might be easier if the Packers would move Bradford, who obviously isn’t a fit at outside linebacker, inside already. Regardless, we can’t see him getting released the same year he got drafted in the fourth round.

So that really leaves only one spot and I think we can all agree upon Child Warrior Andy Mulumba, who’s likely still just scratching the surface of his potential.

Getting Elliott through to the practice squad might be a dicey proposition. It might be the type of situation the Packers are faced with though.

That is, unless they decide it’s time to cut the cord on Nick Perry, who’s obviously nothing more than just a guy.

Food for thought.

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Comments 7

  1. Avatar for Tucson Packer Tucson Packer says:
    9 years ago

    Thats great if he over pursues! We can just flush the RB inside to the middle and let Hawk finish ’em off!

    wait…

  2. Avatar for E. Wolf E. Wolf says:
    9 years ago

    They should move this guy into the ones and see how fares. *IF* he does well, I do not see why we should not cut bait with Nick Perry or one of the other underperformers.

  3. Avatar for Cheese Cheese says:
    9 years ago

    It should be interesting who they keep and who they cut. I don’t know why they don’t move Bradford inside. Hawk and Jones are nothing special, and being 5 or 6 on the depth chart at the outside isn’t promising. It’s not like he’s going to unseat Matthews or Peppers.

  4. Avatar for Howard Howard says:
    9 years ago

    It will be interesting to see if Jayrone goes ahead of Palmer in rotation this week. I think Mulumba is staying as he does play the run well. Agree with Wolf it would be good to see Jayrone ( and maybe Hubbard) at least against the Raiders 2’s for a few series and 1’s for at least one series. Then make a decision on Perry. I see no reason to play Peppers and Matthews more than one series ( three plays). Let’s sort the linebackers out this week. The Bradford situation has me wondering what the hell is going on? Is he that bad?

  5. Avatar for BZ in BA BZ in BA says:
    9 years ago

    Let’s see him with the ones. I don’t think that Elvis Dumerville was much bigger than this guy…. I am not making a direct comparison about anything other than their size.

  6. Avatar for kato kato says:
    9 years ago

    I am not enamored with mulumba. I don’t know where the statement about him being good against the run comes from. Perry is much better against the run. They need to give him one more season to see if the guy can be healthy. If not then you obviously cut ties with him. When the packers run defense started to suffer it was when Matthews and perry were out and mulumba was on the field. He had no outside contain whatsoever

  7. Avatar for iltarion iltarion says:
    9 years ago

    From what I’ve seen, it seems like Palmer and Mulumba have tumbled down the depth chart. I wouldn’t be surprised to see both cut and Elliot make the team.

    Whether it is inside or outside, Bradford almost certainly sticks around.

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