Jets Picks McDonald & Tippmann on 2022 Feldman’s College Freaks List

[C Mart]

5. Will McDonald IV, Iowa State, defensive end

The former high school basketball and track star has lived up to the hopes of the Iowa State staff when it recruited McDonald, a 2021 first-team All-American. He tied for the Big 12 lead in sacks for the second straight season with 11.5, breaking his own single-season school record, to go with his 14 TFLs and five forced fumbles.

“He’s an elite athlete who can do backflips standing still and has videos jumping over cars. All of that along with sacking the QB,” Cyclones coach Matt Campbell said of the 6-3, 236-pound edge rusher. Campbell expects McDonald will vertical-jump 42 or 43 inches when he goes to the combine and should broad jump around 11 feet.

28. Joe Tippmann, Wisconsin, center

The 6-6, 323-pounder made honorable mention All-Big Ten in his first season as a starter for the Badgers. Tippmann is a terrific combination of strength (635-pound back squat and 455-pound bench) and athleticism, clocking a 4.31 pro agility time and a 1.65 10-yard split, which would’ve been faster than any O-lineman at the NFL combine this year.

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[pointman]

2 minutes ago, C Mart said:

 

28. Joe Tippmann, Wisconsin, center

The 6-6, 323-pounder made honorable mention All-Big Ten in his first season as a starter for the Badgers. Tippmann is a terrific combination of strength (635-pound back squat and 455-pound bench) and athleticism, clocking a 4.31 pro agility time and a 1.65 10-yard split, which would’ve been faster than any O-lineman at the NFL combine this year.

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But what did he deadlift?

[GreenFish]

It shows on film also. Both those guys move well on the field.

[GreenReaper]

IMO Tippmann will be prepared to start the season.  McGovern will be Tipps mentor and backup.  

Great plan too.  Definitely rather have a capable vet like McGovern as backup center rather then a Feeney.  

Real Happy about this pick.  Still plenty of time before preseason to improve the OT position.  Maybe still in this draft...but Probably with a veteran acquisition.

[Butterfield]

Both should contribute immediately.  

[Larz]

[C Mart]

Via Feldman 

The Jets’ first-rounder, Will McDonald IV, was the flip side of Levis in terms of being a guy who the coaches privately were higher on than the mock drafts seemed to be. He went No. 15 overall, and if he’s as good as some NFL coaches and coaches who faced Iowa State think, New York fans will love him.

“The way he turns the corner is incredible,” a coach told The Athletic this spring. “He’s so loose and has good pass rush moves. I think he just played so hard. He doesn’t have the same traits, but he was a more productive player than (Tyree) Wilson. They asked him to do some things you don’t usually see from guys that size — playing in the B-gap or being a 4i. They asked him to do a lot for them. He played the run way better this year than a year ago. Every year we played him he got better.”

McDonald is lighter than most coaches would want — he weighed in at 239 at 6-4 in Indy, but he has almost 35-inch arms and was a fixture on the Freaks List the past few years.

An NFL D-line coach we talked to last week was even more effusive about him. “He’s probably the most twitchy guy in the whole D-line group,” the coach said. “You can’t teach that kind of bend. He’s very much like Haason Reddick and Brian Burns.”