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Iowa LB Jack Campbell Steals The Show (And Maybe The Steelers’ Hearts) – Steelers Depot
I really like the NFL Mix. Can or not it’s a bit of overrated and overstated? Certain, similar to anything. However I’m not going to be one of many curmudgeons on Twitter downplaying it within the weeks and days main as much as the occasion. As a result of each single one who does that has the identical response when a linebacker runs a 4.4 or a large receiver runs 4.2-something.
Oh my God, did you see that? That is loopy.
That’s how soccer must be. It’s enjoyable to get excited to look at these mega-athletes work. Embrace it.
In the future into the on-field exercises, I’m certain embracing Iowa linebacker Jack Campbell.
However he’s no exercise warrior. He had the chops coming into the week. Nicely-built at 250 kilos, a rarity for the off-ball place in immediately’s NFL, his manufacturing for the Hawkeyes was off the charts. 299 profession tackles, 125+ every of the final two years, with ten cross breakups, 5 interceptions, and three pressured fumbles. He performed the run, he performed the cross, he merely made performs.
The Mix isn’t the place a participant will solely cement his draft inventory. However it’s a last impression to go away NFL groups. And oh boy, did Campbell go away a very good one. Merely put, it was an A+ exercise, the most effective of his place of the final decade. In keeping with Kent Lee Platte’s Relative Athletic Score, Campbell finished with a 9.98, a borderline traditionally good determine.
Pre-Mix, the most important typical concern over Campbell was his athleticism. He’s massive, so he can fill the run, however may he transfer in house and canopy? A requirement for modern-day linebackers and the rationale why you don’t see 250-pounders like him anymore. Campbell’s 40 time was stable, particularly given his body, his explosion numbers have been wonderful, however his agility numbers have been off-the-charts. His 4.24 brief shuttle and 6.74 three-cone have been one of the best marks of any of the entrance seven gamers who examined Thursday, edge rushers, off-ball linebackers, or defensive linemen. A 6.74 three-cone is excellent; something sub-seven seconds must be thought-about nice and just one different participant understanding yesterday, Japanese Michigan’s Jose Ramirez, hit that mark (6.95).
Campbell won’t ever be Fred Warner however he can cowl with short-area quickness and a very good soccer IQ. The numbers, his tape, and now his testing show that out. Simply because a linebacker runs quick doesn’t imply he can cowl. They’re totally different skillsets. Devin Bush is proof sufficient of that. Campbell’s tape exhibits he has the FBI (soccer intelligence), angles, and burst to match beneath routes.
So Campbell’s performed all he can do. The one drawback with that’s the rise in his “inventory.” Whereas that’s usually overstated, gamers who check effectively get drafted earlier. Campbell’s profile makes him a unicorn. If he was 220 kilos and an excellent tester, it will be worthwhile however not all that attention-grabbing. Small guys check effectively – or at the very least they need to. Campbell is testing effectively with nice dimension. He isn’t some former security his workforce spun down. He’s a real linebacker who exhibits every-down capacity. Meaning his price ticket simply went up and if Pittsburgh needs him, they might must take him at #32. Campbell’s now squarely in that dialog to be the primary off-ball linebacker off the board, proper up there alongside Clemson’s Trenton Simpson and Arkansas’ Drew Sanders, each of whom additionally had good days yesterday.
Pittsburgh will probably have a gap at inside linebacker. After so many makes an attempt and whiffs of addressing the place in free company, it’s time to look by way of the draft. It’s time to take a look at Jack Campbell, who checks every thing the Steelers search for.
Week 6 of the 2024 Iowa high school football season has wrapped up, and High School on SI is continuing its weekly computer rankings for the season.
The Dowling Maroons kept their top five placing in this week’s 5A Iowa computer rankings after a thrilling 41-35 victory over Ankeny Centennial. They face a strong Urbandale team on Friday, to keep their momentum going.
The top of the 5A computer rankings stay the same this week as the Bettendorf Bulldogs take home another win, this time defeating Kennedy 33-14. The Bulldogs look forward to Friday, where they will travel to Davenport Central in hopes to hold their place in the standings.
SBLive’s formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.
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Here are SBLive’s latest Iowa football computer rankings, as of Oct. 7, 2024:
IOWA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS
CLASS 5A | CLASS 4A
CLASS 3A | CLASS 2A
CLASS 1A | CLASS A
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JELD-WEN, a manufacturer of windows and doors in Grinnell, has announced it will be laying off 152 workers effective Nov. 7.
The announcement was made on Iowa’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) site.
The company, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, was founded in 1960 and has 18,000 employees, with operating facilities in 16 countries in North America and Europe with 2023 sales of $4.3 billion, according to the company’s website.
JELD-WEN did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, JELD-WEN announced the closing of its Hawkins, Wisconsin facility, affecting 338 employees, and in Vista, California, resulting in the loss of 110 jobs.
The Iowa Hawkeyes lost two players from their football team this week.
Both running back Leshon Williams and wide receiver Kaleb Brown have announced that they will redshirt for the rest of the season and enter the transfer portal at the end of the year.
Despite the two players opting to leave the program, it hasn’t phased head coach Kirk Ferentz. He isn’t worried about the decisions that they made at all.
When asked about Williams and Brown transferring, Ferentz offered a short and brutal quote.
“Not to be callous, but if a player isn’t playing, you don’t lose much.”
Williams had been dealing with an injury throughout the season thus far. Before the injury, he had shown flashes of being a player that could end up making an impact. Unfortunately, those flashes were never able to come to light on the field.
As for Brown, there were big plans for him coming into the season. But, he was suspended for the first game of the year and was never able to earn his role back.
Clearly, Ferentz is not worried about how his team will respond to the news. Basically, he doesn’t think the losses of them will impact the team at all.
Ferentz isn’t necessarily wrong with what he stated. Neither player had a role that will change how the team has been operating. However, it was the way he said it that was a bit out of line.
Regardless of the role that they players had, handling the situation with a bit more grace would have been a better look.
All of that being said, Iowa is not a program that needs to be graceful necessarily. The Hawkeyes want to win football games and neither Williams or Brown was contributing to that goal so far this year.
Looking ahead to the future, we wish the best to both Williams and Brown. Hopefully, they find success in their future endeavors.
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