Don’t look now, but Justin Ellis is a lean, mean tackling machine. Yeah, it’s strange referring to Ellis as “lean”, but compared to 2016, the man nicknamed “Jelly” isn’t so much of that these days and it’s resulting in the best numbers of his career.
He is a nose tackle, there’s no question about that. At 6-2 and over 330 pounds, there’s no other way to describe him. Last season he weighed in at 338 pounds. This season he showed up for camp having dropped about ten pounds. That may not seem like much for a guy his size, but take it from someone who has seen him out of his pads — the difference is noticeable.