re: 2017 RMD: In The Books!

In round 17, going to have to steal a little bit of Verlander's thunder. The fastest player in the 2017 class is apparently up for some debate here (can't find tailwind breakdown for Guidry...).

Team FibonacciSquared selects Eric Stokes, Cornerback - UGA.



Highlights

Stokes is the fastest player in the state of Georgia. Clocked a 4.35 40 yard dash at The Opening, and reportedly ran a laser timed 4.33 at Georgia Tech's camp. His 100M time has Guidry by the slimmest of margins with an official 10.40 to Guidry's 10.41.

Split time as both a Running Back and Corner/Safety in High School, though was a key contributor on special teams as a return specialist as well. He's been recruited to UGA as a corner, though unless I'm way wrong, I feel like he's going to be limited to Nickel or roll into one of the Safety slots in Nickel packages for LeCounte to slide into the Nickel spot - either of which work fine for me.

Honestly, was on the fence on which direction I was going to go with my defense, but this will complete it as I'm going to roll with this 3-3-5, moving Grant to the OLB spot (where he's projected to spend most of his time at UGA, though he's versatile as hell and they'll move him around as needed) and having Niu lock up the true MLB slot. Stokes is too talented an athlete to potentially lose before the bonus rounds for me. Could easily see us finding some room for him in the IMac speed sweep game if no one else is able to fill that void (looking at you Mecole).