In a Thursday column on PewterReport.com, two Pewter Reporters will debate a Bucs matter with completely different viewpoints. Which Pewter Reporter wins the talk? You get to determine within the feedback part beneath.
This Week’s Subject: Who May Be The Shock MVP Of Bucs Rookie Mini-Camp?
Level: Jalon Daniels Can Be The Catalyst For The Weekend’s Spotlight Performs
By Bailey Adams
As of late, the quarterback play at Bucs rookie mini-camp has left loads to be desired. That’s usually been as a result of the quarterbacks have been tryout gamers fairly than draft picks and even undrafted free brokers. The exception was final 12 months, as Connor Bazelak was signed as an undrafted free agent out of Bowling Inexperienced. However though Bazelak clearly did sufficient to catch on with Tampa Bay and remains to be round proper now, he wasn’t overly spectacular throughout rookie mini-camp final Might.
That’s a part of the explanation why I believe former Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels might emerge because the shock MVP of mini-camp this weekend. The bar is low for the extent of quarterback play we are likely to see from rookie camp, and I’m anticipating the previous Jayhawks star to soar excessive above that bar.
Bucs QB Jalon Daniels – Picture by: IMAGN Photos – Mark J. Rebilas
Daniels was a dual-threat playmaker at Kansas, throwing for 9,282 yards and speeding for 1,451 between 2020 and 2025 whereas totaling 90 touchdowns. I believe he brings plenty of juice to this weekend’s camp and in the long run, I believe he winds up being the catalyst for among the standout performs over the couple of days of follow that we’ll see on the AdventHealth Coaching Heart. He has the arm expertise to push the ball vertically to the likes of third-round choose Ted Hurst and speedy undrafted free agent Eric Rivers, and I believe he’ll showcase his means to make throws with good anticipation.
Plus, even though it is a non-contact mini-camp and quarterbacks wouldn’t get touched even when it was, I believe we’ll see among the escapability that made Daniels so particular throughout his profession in Lawrence. He can lengthen performs whereas preserving his eyes downfield, very similar to Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield does so effectively, plus he’ll choose up free yards once they’re left open for him, equally to the way in which Mayfield does that as effectively.
So, in a rookie mini-camp setting that has usually been about takeaways and protection lately, I believe we come away from this weekend wowed by some big-time throws Daniels makes and the mobility he reveals out and in of the pocket. The one fear I’ve, although, is the truth that he threw 19 interceptions during the last two years of his Kansas profession. He’ll have to restrict the errors and are available via with the massive performs with the intention to break via with shock MVP honors, however I believe he’s able to doing simply that.
Counterpoint: Keionte Scott May Be This Yr’s Jacob Parrish At Bucs Rookie Mini-Camp
By Scott Reynolds
I actually hope Bailey Adams is true about Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels placing on a superb present on this 12 months’s rookie mini-camp. Lord is aware of there was plenty of unhealthy quarterback play in latest rookie mini-camps when the crew has had try-out QBs throwing the ball. As a Kansas State alum, I noticed Daniels go winless towards my Wildcats throughout his six years at KU, which delighted me to no finish. But I got here away having an appreciation for Daniels as a competitor and the way in which he performs soccer.
But I keep in mind final 12 months’s rookie mini-camp the place former Ok-State cornerback Jacob Parrish, the crew’s third-round choose, stole the present with a pair of pick-sixes – one in every follow. A type of interceptions got here when he was plastered on first-round choose Emeka Egbuka, which was fairly spectacular. And it proved to be an indication of issues to come back as Parrish had a extremely robust debut in purple and pewter, beginning each recreation throughout his rookie season and producing two interceptions on the 12 months.
Bucs DB Keionte Scott – Picture by IMAGN Photos – Jerome Miron
That’s why it wouldn’t shock me to see Miami defensive again Keionte Scott be this week’s MVP of the Bucs rookie mini-camp, and do what Parrish did a 12 months in the past. Rookie mini-camp, OTAs and necessary mini-camp are extra like flag soccer than common soccer as a result of there isn’t any hitting allowed and the pads don’t come on till coaching camp. The passing recreation – and go protection – normally takes heart stage because of this. And that’s why I believe Scott can shine on the Bucs follow fields on Friday and Saturday.
Scott arrives in Tampa Bay with extra notoriety and fanfare than Parrish did a 12 months in the past. The Hurricanes made all of it the way in which to the nationwide championship recreation earlier than falling to Fernando Mendoza and Indiana in the long run. Scott had two pick-sixes final 12 months for Miami, together with one towards Ohio State in a nationally televised recreation within the faculty soccer playoffs. And I might see him doing that in his Bucs debut this weekend.
Whereas all eyes shall be on first-round choose Rueben Bain Jr., Scott’s teammate at Miami, and linebacker Josiah Trotter, the crew’s second-round choose, these two could not find yourself making as many splash performs as a result of the pads aren’t on. That’s why I believe Scott has an opportunity to “pull a Parrish” and make some notable performs in protection throughout the rookie mini-camp. And like Parrish, hopefully Scott can parlay that right into a profitable rookie season with the Bucs.
