Shawn Springs Placed on injured reserve, Mike Rumph Released

He's the top corner available.

2006 Scouting Report - Scouts Inc.
Grade: 89 | Key (http://proxy.espn.go.com/nfl/features/scouting#key)
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Comment:
Clements has great size and excellent foot speed and acceleration. He stays low in his backpedal and wastes very little motion when he flips his hips to turn and run. He can run with most receivers and, at his size, rarely is in a mismatch. He does an excellent job with the jam and is at his best in press man-to-man coverage. He excels at getting his hands on receivers and rerouting them off the line of scrimmage. He has great upper-body strength and is aggressive with blockers. He doesn't waste time with anyone trying to screen him from the play. He has excellent body control, change-of-direction skills and burst to the ball. He has outstanding top-end speed and can make up for mistakes in coverage. He has very good leaping ability and ball skills. He judges the ball extremely well in the air. He is a threat on punt returns or interception runbacks. He goes hard to the ball, always seems to be around the play and is a very aggressive tackler. He generally takes good pursuit angles but has mental lapses now and then. He gambles too much and will get caught playing off technique, looking into the backfield and getting beaten by a double move. He needs to improve his focus and concentration.

i dont care if he is the top corner. look at AA, he was suppose to be the top safety and look at him now, he's crap. the highest paid safety rides the bench. i just hope the guy can cover someone.

i dont care if he is the top corner. look at AA, he was suppose to be the top safety and look at him now, he's crap. the highest paid safety rides the bench. i just hope the guy can cover someone.

Clements can cover, I wouldn't worry about him being another Archuleta. Everyone knew Arch couldn't cover well coming in.

ok he looks pretty good.

i dont care if he is the top corner. look at AA, he was suppose to be the top safety and look at him now, he's crap. the highest paid safety rides the bench. i just hope the guy can cover someone.

Lets hope though that Greg Williams familarity with Nate prevents us from making the same mistake that we made with AA. Greg has coached Nate himself so it would seem like we would not be taking as big of a gamble with him as with AA. Plus the system we use is one that NAte is comforatable with - we won't be asking him to do anything he hasn't seen before.

I do worry sometimes though about giving out the massive bonuses because if they don't pan out the Skins will have to incur the deadcap hit sometime in the future (whether we incur it over 1 or 2 seasons).

I don't think Clements is as good as every one is saying.
He is solid, but I wouldn't call him Top Flight.
Unfortunately, Cornerbacks are hard to what ever team gets him is going to overpay.

I still think Springs(when Healthy) is a better corner.

Btw, Like someone said earlier, It's stupid to move our best corner to safety.
First, Springs hasnt lost a step. Woodson and Vincent moved to safety when they couldn't cover fast WR's. Springs is still our fastest corner.

Second, He is a little too fragile for corner, What makes you think he can play the more physical safety spot? Taylor is our FS, Springs would have to be our SS. He would have to play near the line of scrimmage and take on alot of blocks. No way he can take that pounding.

I'd like to know what good perception does us if it's flat out wrong. Facts are facts. Springs isn't a fragile player.

Umm, yeah, I thought we already covered this. You're right, the perception IS flat-out wrong: "fragile" Freddy Taylor has played in more games in the past 5 years than Shawn Springs.

I was hoping Rumph would prove to be at least serviceable as a #3 corner so we could salvage something for Taylor Jacobs, but it apears they both turned out to be less than expected. Rumph a wasted #1, Jacobs a wasted #2.

I don't think Clements is as good as every one is saying.
He is solid, but I wouldn't call him Top Flight.
Unfortunately, Cornerbacks are hard to what ever team gets him is going to overpay.

I still think Springs(when Healthy) is a better corner.

Btw, Like someone said earlier, It's stupid to move our best corner to safety.
First, Springs hasnt lost a step. Woodson and Vincent moved to safety when they couldn't cover fast WR's. Springs is still our fastest corner.

Second, He is a little too fragile for corner, What makes you think he can play the more physical safety spot? Taylor is our FS, Springs would have to be our SS. He would have to play near the line of scrimmage and take on alot of blocks. No way he can take that pounding.

I'm with you...it just does not make since to move Springs. Even if Clements turns out to be OK you would still have Rogers on the other side of the field and that is the problem this year. The only time that I could half way breath when our D is on the field is when Springs was playing corner.

It would make more since to use Clements and Springs at starting corners and use Rogers in our nickle and dime packages...then...if the injury bug continues to bite Springs at least Rogers would be a more reliable starter than the back-ups that we have now .

What does this say for Rumph's value now? Not being able to play on one of the NFL's worst pass defenses? Wow. Was that ever a miscalculation of a first round pick.

Thank god it wasn't ours!

This Springs news is not good. We are in deep do-do if we are putting our best corner at safety. I mean, who the hell is going to play across the perennial pro-bowler Carlos Rogers?