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07-11-2006, 06:09 PM
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Everett: Up to Speed
By Andrew Mason
DenverBroncos.com
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- All Tyler Everett could do in his first month as a Bronco was wait -- which is precisely what he had to do on draft weekend as the picks ran by without his name being called.
Maybe it was because the former Ohio State standout moved from safety to cornerback as a senior, leaving Everett to reflect that he was "kind of out of position." His acquiescence to a move, though, reflected positively on his football character.
"I did it to help the team out a little bit," he said. "Sometimes you have to sacrifice things, and that's the sacrifice I made."
Or maybe it was because he was surrounded by a cosmos of college stars -- 2006 first-day picks A.J. Hawk, Donte Whitner, Bobby Carpenter, Ashton Youboty and Anthony Schlegel, and other high draft picks such as Will Smith and Chris Gamble (both 2004 first-round picks) and 2003 second-round pick Mike Doss. Whatever the reason, Everett, in spite of being a Buckeyes starter as a senior, found himself overlooked.
"I was a little bit surprised seeing guys that I played against -- that I thought I was better than -- going before me," Everett said.
Just hours after the conclusion of the NFL Draft, he'd signed with the Broncos as an undrafted free agent, and like all of his fellow undrafted signees, Everett was graded as draft-worthy on the team's board.
"We feel like Tyler Everett was a sleeper that went undrafted," General Manager Ted Sundquist said. "He was in a situation where he was stuck behind Mike Doss and was lost in the shuffle alongside Whitner."
But while his fellow rookies could take part in the team's organized team activities that began on May 16, Everett had to remain back in Columbus, Ohio, where school remained in session.
Aside from the three-day mini-camp, rookies can't report to their teams until the ongoing academic term ends. The same rule kept Roc Alexander from some OTAs in 2004 and sidelined Brandon Browner until the July mini-camp last year.
"I told my mother and father every day, 'Sometimes I wish I could be done with school early, graduate in three years,'" Everett said, "but it's a rule, so you have to follow it."
But it didn't mean he had to separate himself from his future profession entirely as he wrapped up academic matters two time zones away. He came to Denver for a physical and left with what he termed a "rough draft" of the team's playbook, allowing him to begin studying the system in which he would soon be immersed.
"Any questions I had, I called Coach Slow (defensive backs coach Bob Slowik) or his son Ryan, and then when I got out here, they gave me the full book," Everett said. "Since I got it two weeks ago, I've been in it every day, studying."
But not exclusively.
"You can't do too much studying, because you'd be overwhelmed. I study it about a half-hour or an hour a day, when I'm at home," he said. "It's almost like a person working for a big business, they have to go over their daily things, and that's what I do daily -- go over the playbook, so I can catch myself up."
The recently completed minicamp offered a chance for Everett to veer back from the backroads of rookie orientation and into more speedy surroundings, and he noted that the work last week got him "somewhat" caught up.
"A lot of people are at the same level as me (in athletic ability); some are a little better, but hard work will get me there," he said. "The guys have accepted me well and answered any questions I have, so I feel pretty comfortable.
"There are things that (happen on the field) that are new and I haven't seen. I saw them in the playbook, but if I don't know what they actually are, how do I know what's right or wrong? They're still helping me along, but I'm catching up pretty easily."
As if making the team wasn't enough motivation, his absence through the OTAs offered him a little extra.
"Just knowing that the guys were out here working and I'm still in school -- it made me feel like I owed them something when I got here," Everett said. "When I got here, I just worked hard to show them that I'm not coming in here lazy because I've been off."
And when training camp dawns, Everett will have the chance to show that his lack of a draft status and his forced absence from offseason practices aren't a detriment.
"I may have come in as a free agent, but who knows? I may play longer in the NFL than some of those guys that went (in the) first (or) second round," he said.
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Boy, he looks like a nice physical specimen. He's got that stockiness to him...lots of today's top safeties have a similar build. From the scouting reports I read post-draft, he's no slouch athletically either.
I think I read a quote saying that Everett was widely viewed as a player that could easily make an NFL roster...even if he wasn't drafted.
Ahh yes...the awesomeness of KFFL:
Broncos | Everett back practicing with the team - from www.KFFL.com
Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:16:24 -0700
Jeff Legwold, of the Rocky Mountain News, reports Denver Broncos rookie S Tyler Everett was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Broncos in April, but this week's minicamp is the first time he has been in full workouts with the team. Because his class at Ohio State had not graduated before the team's May and June minicamps, by league rules, he could not attend. Scouts leaguewide quickly had touted Everett after the NFL Draft as a player who could make a team's roster or practice squad even though he had not been selected in the seven-round draft.
Everett: Up to Speed
By Andrew Mason
DenverBroncos.com
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- All Tyler Everett could do in his first month as a Bronco was wait -- which is precisely what he had to do on draft weekend as the picks ran by without his name being called.
Maybe it was because the former Ohio State standout moved from safety to cornerback as a senior, leaving Everett to reflect that he was "kind of out of position." His acquiescence to a move, though, reflected positively on his football character.
"I did it to help the team out a little bit," he said. "Sometimes you have to sacrifice things, and that's the sacrifice I made."
Or maybe it was because he was surrounded by a cosmos of college stars -- 2006 first-day picks A.J. Hawk, Donte Whitner, Bobby Carpenter, Ashton Youboty and Anthony Schlegel, and other high draft picks such as Will Smith and Chris Gamble (both 2004 first-round picks) and 2003 second-round pick Mike Doss. Whatever the reason, Everett, in spite of being a Buckeyes starter as a senior, found himself overlooked.
"I was a little bit surprised seeing guys that I played against -- that I thought I was better than -- going before me," Everett said.
Just hours after the conclusion of the NFL Draft, he'd signed with the Broncos as an undrafted free agent, and like all of his fellow undrafted signees, Everett was graded as draft-worthy on the team's board.
"We feel like Tyler Everett was a sleeper that went undrafted," General Manager Ted Sundquist said. "He was in a situation where he was stuck behind Mike Doss and was lost in the shuffle alongside Whitner."
But while his fellow rookies could take part in the team's organized team activities that began on May 16, Everett had to remain back in Columbus, Ohio, where school remained in session.
Aside from the three-day mini-camp, rookies can't report to their teams until the ongoing academic term ends. The same rule kept Roc Alexander from some OTAs in 2004 and sidelined Brandon Browner until the July mini-camp last year.
"I told my mother and father every day, 'Sometimes I wish I could be done with school early, graduate in three years,'" Everett said, "but it's a rule, so you have to follow it."
But it didn't mean he had to separate himself from his future profession entirely as he wrapped up academic matters two time zones away. He came to Denver for a physical and left with what he termed a "rough draft" of the team's playbook, allowing him to begin studying the system in which he would soon be immersed.
"Any questions I had, I called Coach Slow (defensive backs coach Bob Slowik) or his son Ryan, and then when I got out here, they gave me the full book," Everett said. "Since I got it two weeks ago, I've been in it every day, studying."
But not exclusively.
"You can't do too much studying, because you'd be overwhelmed. I study it about a half-hour or an hour a day, when I'm at home," he said. "It's almost like a person working for a big business, they have to go over their daily things, and that's what I do daily -- go over the playbook, so I can catch myself up."
The recently completed minicamp offered a chance for Everett to veer back from the backroads of rookie orientation and into more speedy surroundings, and he noted that the work last week got him "somewhat" caught up.
"A lot of people are at the same level as me (in athletic ability); some are a little better, but hard work will get me there," he said. "The guys have accepted me well and answered any questions I have, so I feel pretty comfortable.
"There are things that (happen on the field) that are new and I haven't seen. I saw them in the playbook, but if I don't know what they actually are, how do I know what's right or wrong? They're still helping me along, but I'm catching up pretty easily."
As if making the team wasn't enough motivation, his absence through the OTAs offered him a little extra.
"Just knowing that the guys were out here working and I'm still in school -- it made me feel like I owed them something when I got here," Everett said. "When I got here, I just worked hard to show them that I'm not coming in here lazy because I've been off."
And when training camp dawns, Everett will have the chance to show that his lack of a draft status and his forced absence from offseason practices aren't a detriment.
"I may have come in as a free agent, but who knows? I may play longer in the NFL than some of those guys that went (in the) first (or) second round," he said.
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Boy, he looks like a nice physical specimen. He's got that stockiness to him...lots of today's top safeties have a similar build. From the scouting reports I read post-draft, he's no slouch athletically either.
I think I read a quote saying that Everett was widely viewed as a player that could easily make an NFL roster...even if he wasn't drafted.
Ahh yes...the awesomeness of KFFL:
Broncos | Everett back practicing with the team - from www.KFFL.com
Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:16:24 -0700
Jeff Legwold, of the Rocky Mountain News, reports Denver Broncos rookie S Tyler Everett was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Broncos in April, but this week's minicamp is the first time he has been in full workouts with the team. Because his class at Ohio State had not graduated before the team's May and June minicamps, by league rules, he could not attend. Scouts leaguewide quickly had touted Everett after the NFL Draft as a player who could make a team's roster or practice squad even though he had not been selected in the seven-round draft.