Will McDonald acknowledged he solely acquired 45 minutes of sleep from the time he was drafted by the Jets at No. 15 to the time he entered the group facility.
McDonald says he has been ready to leisure a bit inside the seven days since.
“I’ve been getting the correct quantity of sleep,” McDonald acknowledged initially of the Jets’ rookie minicamp on Friday afternoon. “I usually try to get to mattress sooner than 10.
“Consuming the fitting meals, waking up, doing what I acquired to do to maintain my physique wholesome.”
Many had been shocked the Jets chosen McDonald with their first-round determine, considering the current logjam at defensive end. However with all of the first-round-rated offensive tackles off the board at the moment, Gang Inexperienced decided to take the simplest obtainable participant and a cross rusher who could in all probability wreak havoc on the road of scrimmage.
Throughout Friday’s observe at Florham Park, McDonald and the rest of the rookies participated in positional drills. He’ll placed on No. 99, his first amount when he arrived at Iowa State, sooner than later switching to No. 9. If he’s one thing like one different well-known No. 99 with the Jets, McDonald will in all probability be in fantastic situation.
Most Gang Inexperienced followers affiliate No. 99 with five-time Professional Bowler Mark Gastineau, who leads the franchise with 107.5 occupation sacks. McDonald doesn’t know rather a lot about Gastineau, nevertheless he fashions his recreation after avid gamers akin to Maxx Crosby, Von Miller and Aaron Donald.
His spin switch was troublesome to stop whereas at Iowa State. With the Cyclones, McDonald registered 125 tackles, 40.5 tackles for loss and 34 sacks. He left as the school’s all-time sack chief and tied the all-time report for sacks inside the Massive 12. However his tendency to strip opposing avid gamers proved to be a weapon at Iowa State.
“It was consciousness,” McDonald acknowledged about stripping ball carriers. “I actually really feel like one factor that helps me is my martial arts, my jiu-jitsu with hand-eye coordination and stability.
“The target, you need to get the ball, that’s cash.”
Not solely is learning the Jets playbook a serious part of the rookie minicamp nevertheless so is just learning the place to go contained within the establishing.
“We need to acclimate the youngsters that will probably be right here on the 90-man roster,” Jets coach Robert Saleh acknowledged. “So type of like a Section 2, an introduction to the scheme.”
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