{"id":44445,"date":"2019-04-20T04:36:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T08:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=44445"},"modified":"2019-04-20T04:36:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T08:36:46","slug":"jetnation-prospect-preview-michigan-state-cb-justin-layne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2019\/04\/20\/jetnation-prospect-preview-michigan-state-cb-justin-layne\/","title":{"rendered":"JetNation Prospect preview: Michigan State CB Justin Layne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Jets approach the NFL Draft many questions have come up about the talent level at Corner back.&nbsp; The only moves that Mike Maccagnan has done in the secondary is extending Daryl Roberts contract and signing free agent Brian Poole.&nbsp; Roberts is penciled in at the #2 position and Poole has been rumored to be the replacement at Nickel Corner for former Buster Skrine.&nbsp; Justin Layne may be considered a project but looks like a perfect fit to compete for a starting position and could find himself on the depth chart behind #1 CB Trumaine Johnson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Justin Layne<\/p>\n<p><strong>Position:<\/strong> Corner Back<\/p>\n<p><strong>School:<\/strong> Michigan State<\/p>\n<p><strong>HT\/WT:<\/strong>&nbsp;6&#8217;2&#8243; 192 LBS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hands:<\/strong> 9 1\/4&#8243;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arms:&nbsp;<\/strong>33&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NFL Combine Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"402\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"64\">40<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">Vertical<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">Broad<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">20yd shuttle<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">3 cone<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4.5<\/td>\n<td>37.5<\/td>\n<td>134&#8221;<\/td>\n<td>4.09<\/td>\n<td>6.9<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2018 Stats:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"338\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"64\">G<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">Tkl<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">INT<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">PD<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>72<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Strengths:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tall Lanky CB with a hard-hitting tackle style. Excels in man press situations, benefits from 33&#8243; long arms.&nbsp; Layne is a versatile defensive back who can play in various schemes such as, cover 3, zone and Man to Man.&nbsp; Layne came into Michigan State as a Wide Receiver but moved to the other side of the ball and started 2-1\/2 years at cornerback.&nbsp; During his time at CB Layne racked up 130 tackles, 3 interceptions, 24 pass deflections, 1 Forced Fumble and 1 defensive touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>PFF is know for some obscure stats but has given a very high grade of 87.1 Overall.&nbsp; His size, length and speed should transition well at the NFL level.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nQbQYgxY06\">pic.twitter.com\/nQbQYgxY06<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex V (@NYJetsLife24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYJetsLife24\/status\/1117397612829773824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong>Weakness:<\/strong> Lacks instinctual awareness in certain zone schemes, this can be fixed with film study and coaching.&nbsp; Struggles to get off of blocks in run game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Draft Predictions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>PFF: 34th overall<\/p>\n<p>NFL.com: 72nd overall<\/p>\n<p>USA Today: 63rd overall<\/p>\n<p>Bleacher Report: 59th overall<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Jets approach the NFL Draft many questions have come up about the talent level at Corner back.&nbsp; The only moves that Mike Maccagnan has done in the secondary is extending Daryl Roberts contract and signing free agent Brian Poole.&nbsp; Roberts is penciled in at the #2 position and Poole has been rumored to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":44482,"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":[3,3061],"tags":[3074,3073],"class_list":{"0":"post-44445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"category-prospect-player-profiles","9":"tag-draft-profile","10":"tag-justin-layne"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Justin-Layne.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-byR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44445","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44445"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44483,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44445\/revisions\/44483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}