Talent evaluation isn’t just about finding players who are good at what they do. More important is finding players who are good at what you do, and if your scheme cannot bend to what the player does well, no matter how well he does it, it’s not going to work out.
That is what happened with the Washington Commanders and cornerback William Jackson III, to hear head coach Ron Rivera tell it after the NFC East bottom-dwellers traded the former first-round draft pick to the Pittsburgh Steelers for an exchange of 2025 late-round draft picks.
“We looked at what we tried to do with William and it didn’t work”, he admitted in a candid conversation with JP Finlay on Washington Football Talk.