{"id":39764,"date":"2018-06-20T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T18:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=39764"},"modified":"2018-06-20T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T18:59:28","slug":"jets-reportedly-meet-with-cornerback-adonis-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2018\/06\/20\/jets-reportedly-meet-with-cornerback-adonis-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Reportedly Meet With Cornerback Adonis Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the NFL&#8217;s supplemental draft approaching on July 11th, the Jets have reportedly met with the highest profile player available in the draft in Virginia Tech cornerback Adonis Alexander.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Virginia Tech CB Adonis Alexander Has Met With Chiefs, Colts, Jets &amp;\u00a0Saints <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9AfojWWs1M\">https:\/\/t.co\/9AfojWWs1M<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lYDrP7VXQS\">pic.twitter.com\/lYDrP7VXQS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFLTradeRumors.co (@nfltrade_rumors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nfltrade_rumors\/status\/1009486319867908097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Tony Pauline of draftanalyst.com had this to say about Alexander:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alexander, who some scouts graded as the third-best\u00a0senior prospect in the nation and others penned as the No. 2 upperclassman cornerback, measured 6-foot-2\u00a0and 195 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>He timed 4.61\u00a0in the 40, 7.18\u00a0in the three-cone and 4.37\u00a0in the short shuttle.\u00a0His vertical touched 35.5 inches while his broad reached 10-foot-4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Alexander&#8217;s 40 time of 4.61 is alarmingly slow, Eric Galko of optimum scouting points out the fact that supplemental draft players don&#8217;t have as much time to train for combine-specific drills in the say way traditional draft prospects do.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adonis Alexander measured in at 6020, 195.<\/p>\n<p>4.61 forty-time, 9 on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind: Limited training time for Supplemental Draft prospects. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VirginiaTech?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VirginiaTech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Galko (@EricGalko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricGalko\/status\/1009442844933804033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>With great height and length, it&#8217;s no surprise to hear the Jets are at least kicking the tires on Alexander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the NFL&#8217;s supplemental draft approaching on July 11th, the Jets have reportedly met with the highest profile player available in the draft in Virginia Tech cornerback Adonis Alexander. Virginia Tech CB Adonis Alexander Has Met With Chiefs, Colts, Jets &amp;\u00a0Saints https:\/\/t.co\/9AfojWWs1M pic.twitter.com\/lYDrP7VXQS &mdash; NFLTradeRumors.co (@nfltrade_rumors) June 20, 2018 Tony Pauline of draftanalyst.com had this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":21016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[2945],"class_list":{"0":"post-39764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"tag-adonis-alexander"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/helmet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-alm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39767,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39764\/revisions\/39767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}