Get all set for Micheal Clemons, Jets supporters. Odds are fairly great you are going to like him.
The 6-foot-5, 265-pound edge rusher, who on Friday satisfied with reporters for the first time considering that the Jets drafted him in the fourth round (117th all round) out of Texas A&M last Saturday, arrived off as equal pieces daunting and charming with a very good dose of confidence extra in.
“I know a small little bit about the Jets heritage,’’ the physically imposing Clemons claimed Friday after his 1st rookie-camp training with the group, “but I plan on creating an impact no make any difference what the history was.’’
Fantastic response, contemplating how starved the Jets are for effect gamers on both equally sides of the ball.
For those Jets followers not very well-versed in the historical past of the team’s pass hurry (and most of you certainly are), listed here it is: You have to go back again 7 seasons to locate a player who had double-digit sacks for the Jets (Mo Wilkerson, with 12 in 2015).
The Jets’ superior past time was six by Quinnen Williams, who also led them with seven in 2020. Right before that, the staff highs had been eight in 2019, 7 in 2018, 5 in 2017 and 7 in 2016. You can not get soccer games with people quantities. Not coincidentally, the Jets had been 10-6 in 2015, when Wilkerson experienced the 12 sacks.
Sacks have occur as commonly as we’ve been graced with 70-degree days for the duration of this prolonged and unusually chilly spring.
Will Clemons be a part of the remedy to ending that paltry pass-rush creation?
He thinks so.
“As quickly as I created the final decision that soccer was what I wanted to do, I dedicated to it and I’ve always had faith that I would make it — even if it seemed rocky, even if I wasn’t recruited, even if I did not get significantly taking part in time in significant faculty,’’ Clemons reported, quite a lot mapping out his arduous journey from high college to junior college to Texas A&M to getting the Aggies’ defensive captain in 2021. “I hardly ever shed that religion in myself that it might not be sleek, but it is heading to materialize.’’
It is tricky to envision when wanting at his frame, but Clemons was a working again in substantial faculty.
“You all know Brandon Jacobs?’’ Clemons mentioned of the previous Giants managing again. “I was hoping to be Brandon Jacobs 2..’’
He moved to linebacker his senior calendar year, but was wounded and in no way was in a position to set enough on tape to get recruited.
He walked on at Cisco Local community College or university, wherever he performed properly plenty of to be recruited by Texas A&M, where he played in 39 online games (25 starts) and experienced 93 tackles, 12 ½ sacks and 21 tackles for losses. Last season, he had seven sacks, 11 TFLs.
Clemons claimed he was “grateful’’ for his JUCO knowledge mainly because “it taught me difficult do the job, determination [and] that I experienced to be my individual disciplinarian in order for me to make it out of there.’’
Jets normal manager Joe Douglas, right after drafting Clemons, described him as “one of the nastier players in the complete draft,” including, “We really do not feel you can have ample of that on this workforce.”
Clemons sent one particular of a handful of amusing times in his meeting with reporters, when he was asked how he can switch that nastiness on and off, snapping his fingers, mimicking flipping a light-weight change.
“It’s just a swap in me,’’ he reported. “I change it off when I’m acquiring ready to be a civilian once more. It’s who I am. On the industry, animal. When I get off the field, I’m chilling and low key. As a defensive participant, you will need that nastiness. Which is surely a single of the greatest belongings to my game.
“I just have to make certain I flip that detail off when I walk off the field.’’
That will be a crucial for Clemons, who built some questionable off-the-discipline conclusions in higher education, together with receiving arrested in August 2021 on rates of marijuana possession, unlawful carrying of a weapon and failure to recognize, in accordance to Brazos County, Texas, courtroom records.
Keeping cleanse will be as important to him as a pro as chasing quarterbacks.
Requested what his favourite move-rush moves are, Clemons smiled and said, “I can not give you my whole e book. But I definitely like electrical power moves for guaranteed. You make a person rapidly regard you when you hit him in the mouth over and above once more. He’s likely to be imagining about that all working day.’’
Head coach Robert Saleh reported on Friday that Carl Lawson, the team’s veteran pass rusher, by now has been seeing college tape of Clemons.
Clemons mentioned he has experienced his eye on this moment given that he was an 8-12 months-outdated kid watching an NFL sport for the very first time, on Thanksgiving.
“That’s when I realized I wanted to do that,’’ he claimed. “I try to remember sitting down in our condominium on the lookout at it on Tv. I ignore who was actively playing, but I was like, ‘Yeah, which is going to be me.’ ’’
Perfectly, right here he is.
“I’m all set to get to do the job,’’ he stated.
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