Desmond King
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Still can’t believe he didn’t get picked up until the fifth round.
As a Vikings fan, I was clamoring for him in the 3rd and 4th round. One of the few times I've been right. Get 'em Des.
I can still recall thinking very early in his Freshman year "I love the way that kid plays". But I had no idea how good he was to become. People like to talk about Bob Stoops, Merton Hanks. Micah Hyde, Bob Sanders, and all the rest of the many fine defensive backs we have had at Iowa over the years...but Dez King stands as tall as any of em.
The fifth-round pick out of Iowa had a career-high 10 tackles along with his fourth sack of the season. He is now tied with Rodney Harrison for the second-most sacks in a season by a defensive back in Chargers history.
5th ROUND cause phone broke I guess huh? Outlaw next. 2nd round or bust.Him and the KING scary huh?
As a Bears fan, the front office is for some reason, ALLERGIC to Iowa players.
Not to take anything away from Kings wonderful performance, but LeShun Daniels had 2 carries for 12 yards in the same game. Good for him!!
I went back to relook at the recruiting rankings because I remember many of them being 2 stars. Its remarkable how good Iowa has been at identifying D-back talent. I can't get back to Sanders class, but counting him. 8, 2-star D-backs have played in the NFL for us, not counting 2 or 3 walk-ons out of 18 NFL DB's in KF's era. Also not counting Jackson.
Something else struck me...we don't sign near as many 2 stars as we used too. Now part of that feels like Rivals has more 3's and does a better job of identifying players past the top 250/300 than they used too. All the same I've said many times, since the 2009-2012 time frame, our recruiting has taken a huge jump.
Something else struck me...we don't sign near as many 2 stars as we used too. Now part of that feels like Rivals has more 3's and does a better job of identifying players past the top 250/300 than they used too. All the same I've said many times, since the 2009-2012 time frame, our recruiting has taken a huge jump.
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