Jared Verse, EDGE, Florida State (Junior)

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Strengths :

  • Good athlete
  • High motor
  • Overpowering Punch
  • Excellent Power Rusher
  • Active Hands
  • Good Ability to Bend
  • capable in Run Stuff situations

 

Weaknesses :

  • Tends to stand up when tired
  • Reading the game is not top-notch
  • Tackling technique needs work
  • Sometimes slow to react after reading
  • Agility

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Jared Jared Jared …

Possibly one of the highest ceilings in the draft among Power Rushers, and what heart.
Jared is the epitome of a player who will give his all for his team, having played games last season while injured, like the match versus Wake Forest where he was limited to a few snaps, and the one against Clemson where I strongly suspect he said he was fit but was often seen limping and moving awkwardly.
Just these kinds of things give a lot of indications about the guy your team is getting, not to mention the fact of agreeing to return to Florida State for an extra season to play for the title, risking injury and losing a year, which is enough to lower his value in the eyes of some scouts/coaches.

 

Jared is full of qualities that are sure to appeal to NFL GMs and coaches, starting with his fabulous Bull-rush ability, which is so impressive that it forces OLs to respect Jared on this point alone and sometimes makes them unbalance forward to defend against it, thus exposing themselves to the Push-Pull that Jared also masters.
Besides, it would be naive to think that Verse, who just turned 23, only has this in his technical arsenal. If he masters power brilliantly, he is certainly not lacking in Speed moves. With his natural explosiveness, his nice work on opponents' arms, a beautiful Swim-move that he seems to be developing more and more, and his ability to switch from Speed to Power . Pass Rush if he finds himself beaten, Jared Verse proves he has more than one trick up his sleeve to hunt down opposing QBs.

What about the trench warfare, then?
Well, Jared is also quite impressive here. He can pierce his counterpart to be in the opponent's backfield in a flash. Moreover, if your team plays in a scheme that requires maintaining control of the OL to read the play, the famous Two-Gaps or One-and-a-Half-Gap systems, or One and a Half-Gap (2-Gap system or 1 and Half-GapJared has also proven he can do that, even when injured. That's solid.

As for his ability to cover zones, I think he could quickly learn to do so, but I can't affirm it simply due to a lack of footage to observe. Most of the time, Verse was either an Edge in a 40 front or a DE in a 30 front in obvious pass situations, and in both cases, he hardly ever dropped into zone.
But why do I think he could quickly do it? First, his athleticism. Jared is ultra-explosive and can go fast over long distances while being able to repeat efforts as he has a good motor.
Moreover, against Wake Forest, where I remind you he was severely limited due to injury, he showed he could follow a deep threat in man coverage on a play. Knowing that the zones to be covered as an EDGE are mostly short to intermediate in some cases, all while keeping the play in front of him, I'm not too worried about Jared evolving tomorrow in a system that would ask him to do so. He will still have work to do on his movements due to not very fluid hips and average agility.

 

As for his weaknesses, because it's all well and good to list his strengths, but it's also important to address the less good aspects.

First, his Pass Rush movement palette Pass Rush although significant, really needs a bit of polish on details. Jared is still very raw and, although he uses many different techniques, he could really gain efficiency in many of them with some fundamental work, but at least the basics are there.

Then, as I wrote earlier, Jared sometimes has issues with his movements. He relies so much on his power that it even reflects in his movements; he is not part of the caste of fluid and "beautiful" players to watch. His movements, direction changes, weight transfers are often jerky, brutal, and you can see his physical effort, which can be a problem against some agile players who can toy with him.

We also have a really average game reading which sometimes plays tricks on him. His QB-hunter mindset, obsessed with Sacks, often locks him into a tunnel vision of the game where he sees only that. Coupled with slow processing of information on feigned plays, we get a player who can sometimes completely mess up, and when it's the player in charge of pushing the play inside the box who messes up, it can quickly lead to big plays from the opposing team.
Otherwise, we have an aggressiveness that can sometimes be a bit too pronounced at the moment of tackling, leading him to rarely arrive under control and thus completely miss tackles because of that.

Finally, while Jared Verse has a high motor, he can sometimes get exhausted, and when that happens, he unfortunately becomes absolutely useless. He arrives too high without speed and ends up being pushed around. The team that drafts him will therefore have the responsibility to manage his rotations well to allow him to be fresh and thus as dangerous as possible.

 

To conclude, we currently have with Jared Verse a very nice project but also still RawCertainly, maybe not as Raw as other ultra-physical profiles Raw but with less fundamentals, as can be the case for a prospect like Chop Robinson, for example.
On the contrary, Jared already has a floor that can seem terribly interesting and already has aspects of his game that are almost elite.

Naturally, that makes one drool because if we manage to improve the other points, his ceiling can quickly become terrifying. Personally, I already saw his value last season as a second-round value, and I wouldn't have been surprised to see him go in the first round following a big combine, a bit like his former teammate Jermaine Johnson. But with an additional season to refine his game and being double-teamed in every match, Jared has obviously improved. .
Still as strong, powerful, and explosive, his game against the run remains very solid, while his palette of Speed moves has improved; he uses more and more Swim-move Swim-moves, and thanks to his fast and powerful hands, he has further improved his ability to hunt blockers' hands. He possesses all the attributes of a first-round pick for me and is clearly among the best Edge players in the class
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