Early in his introductory press conference, Rex Ryan was asked about how he’ll fix last year’s first-round pick Vernon Gholston.
He compared him to Terrell Suggs, and hasn’t stopped building Gholston up publicly since.
Adam Schefter, who has started his Twitter account with fingers a’blazing, indicates that a different story has developed behind the scenes, and “the signs from OTAs were not encouraging.”
It’s very early, but this is troubling news for the Jets. Football in shorts should be where the athletically gifted Gholston shines.
Instead, the No. 6 overall pick of last year’s draft may be showing the new coaching staff what the old staff reportedly saw in him: “next to nothing.”
We’ll know soon enough how much Gholston has developed. Verbal backslaps are nice, but coaches tend to speak loudest with playing time.