2010 Draft Prospect Profile USC Safety Taylor Mays. Reminds Us of Sean Taylor.
Your best source for quality USC Trojans news rumors analysis stats and scores from the fan perspective. Teams Interested Oakland Raiders 8 Seattle Seahawks 14 Pittsburgh Steelers 18 Cincinnati Bengals 21. He gave up being a guaranteed top 10 pick by staying in school for another year and that may cost him in the draft.
Taylor Mays was asked by San Diego radio host Darren Smith if he went for too many big hits at USC I think there is some truth to that but at the same time that is what I was coached to do.
Taylor Mays has become one of the most interesting players coming into the 2010 Combine. Projected Round Early to Late First. At USC I was coached to deliver knockout. So you can talk about how you. Hello Anybody else remember another safety who ran like a CB and hit like a LB but wasnt terribly good at the football part of being a football player. The Florida quarterback spent the following days working on his release in preparation for the NFL combine.
I look at Taylor Mays hes played on one of the best defenses in the country for four consecutive years and in his career hes only had five interceptions and three of those were when he was a freshman.
The two most negative reports during the Senior Bowl were Tim Tebows mechanics and Taylor Mays inability to cover. Mays is an amazing athlete. Stats Highlights Awards and Honors and Projections. Posted by Bryan Martin On February 22 2010.
You cant tell them to draft well right after you suggest drafting Taylor Mays. As Ive stated many times my projected first round pick for the Cowboys is Idaho guard Mike Iupati however thats merely an opinion.
Taylor Mays 63 231 lbs.
If they choose to do so there are various safety prospects the Cowboys could look at in both the first and second rounds including Earl Thomas Nate Allen Chad Jones Morgan Burnett and our current feature Taylor Mays.
Taylor Mays (born February 7, 1988) is an American football safety for the University of Southern California. Since stepping into the starting role at free safety after an injury to teammate Josh Pinkard during his freshman year, Mays has started every game and has earned All-American honors and All-Pac 10 honors three times. He ended his junior season as one of the top three finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award given to the nation’s best defensive back.
Early life
Mays was born in Seattle, Washington, the son of Stafford Mays, a former defensive lineman in the National Football League, and Laurie Mays (née Black), a Nordstrom executive. He is African-American and Jewish;”I don’t think at the time I really understood what it meant. Now, looking back on it, I feel like I have come a long way in regards to maturity and becoming an adult. I think it helped me do that.” His father played defensive tackle for the University of Wash
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Dis nigga taylor mays frum USC ran a 4.2 40? Damn!
JohnThornton Taylor Mays ran a 4.24 40. Who says that the combine is asinine cough Marvin
Holy shiiieettttt Taylor mays ,
Just watched Taylor Mays run an unofficial 4.24 in the 40 at the combine! Get it!
RT GarryCobb: USC safety Taylor Mays who is 63quot; and weighs 230 pounds just ran a 4.24 forty yard dash at the NFL Combine. Hes.
mucho dinero RT Adam_Schefter But USC S Taylor Mays clocked an unofficial time of 4.24. Dinero.