GREEN BAY – In evaluating his rookie season on special teams, Jayrone Elliot believes it took him awhile to get going.
The fact that he still finished 2014 with the second-most coverage tackles on the team (15) bodes well for the second-year outside linebacker, and for the Packers.
“I didn’t get a lot of special-teams reps last year (in training camp), and that’s why I started slow,” Elliott said. “I don’t know when that button went off, but I know I had my two best games in the playoffs.”
That he did, recording three tackles against the Cowboys and three more against the Seahawks, setting the stage for Elliott to become one of new coordinator Ron Zook’s core players on Green Bay’s revamped special teams in 2015.