Rookie safety Tyler Nubin checks all the boxes for Giants
July 4, 2024
Rookie safety Tyler Nubin checks all the boxes for Giants
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>Coming out of St. Charles North High School in the western suburb of Chicago, Nubin wanted to be a cornerback after leading his team to its first ever state final appearance. The four-star recruit and 2018 Courier-News Football Player of the Year had also just caught 42 passes for 549 yards and nine touchdowns on top of running for 600 yards and 12 touchdowns on 109 carries from the quarterback position in his senior season.
>”I told him he’s going to play corner for sure, maybe a little wideout, and after like the third day he was here, I called him in my office,” Fleck recalled. “I was like, ‘Dude, I’m just going to tell you, I’m moving you to safety.’ He goes, ‘I thought I was a corner.’ I was like, ‘You were, but then I watched you for three days and I’m going to move you to safety and you’re going to be an NFL draft pick.’ And he’s like, ‘OK.’ He was great with it, though. I think it took him a day or two to actually kind of get his brain around it, but when he could see what he could do at safety, I think that was a no-brainer for everybody.”
>A program-record 13 interceptions and four Academic All-Big Ten selections later, it is safe to say Fleck was onto something.
>”He could have been a great wideout as well,” Fleck said. “He can hit like a linebacker, he can cover like a corner, but the more space he has to be able to maneuver and be himself and be really athletic, the better he is.”
There are several good parts to this one. We get a lot of nice backstory on Nubin especially around his versatility at safety.
>The coaching staff even took pictures of Nubin’s notes to show current players how to study properly.
>”He has this rolodex and this brain that is almost like a photographic mind,” Fleck said. “If he gets beat once, he knows how he got beat, what he got beat with, and he knows the tendencies of that. He studies that, and rarely do you get him again. In fact, he probably gets you the next time. He constantly takes things off the board for offenses because you’re only going to be able to use it once.”
>That covers the “smart” part.
>Nubin, who played six games on a torn meniscus last year, also checks the “tough” and “dependable” boxes for coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen.
>”[He’s] going to be a reflection of what Coach Daboll is trying to build,” Fleck said. “I think that goes hand in hand. He’ll never put himself before a team. He never did that here. He had plenty of opportunities to do that and he never did that. Even when he came back for his last year, he could have easily, probably been drafted in the second or third round last year. He decided to come back for not only himself and help his draft stock, but it was for the team. It was for beating Iowa, which we hadn’t done here, and he did that. So, he put all these things before himself, and I think that’s what he’s going to do with the Giants.”
There’s a a few parts that talk about him and his good habits translating to the locker room. A name like Antione Winfield Jr. even gets mentioned. We’ve had a lot of good hype for guys like Nabers can’t forget we got some new things to look forward to on the defensive side of the ball.
A great case for why he was the 1st Safety off the board.
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>Coming out of St. Charles North High School in the western suburb of Chicago, Nubin wanted to be a cornerback after leading his team to its first ever state final appearance. The four-star recruit and 2018 Courier-News Football Player of the Year had also just caught 42 passes for 549 yards and nine touchdowns on top of running for 600 yards and 12 touchdowns on 109 carries from the quarterback position in his senior season.
>”I told him he’s going to play corner for sure, maybe a little wideout, and after like the third day he was here, I called him in my office,” Fleck recalled. “I was like, ‘Dude, I’m just going to tell you, I’m moving you to safety.’ He goes, ‘I thought I was a corner.’ I was like, ‘You were, but then I watched you for three days and I’m going to move you to safety and you’re going to be an NFL draft pick.’ And he’s like, ‘OK.’ He was great with it, though. I think it took him a day or two to actually kind of get his brain around it, but when he could see what he could do at safety, I think that was a no-brainer for everybody.”
>A program-record 13 interceptions and four Academic All-Big Ten selections later, it is safe to say Fleck was onto something.
>”He could have been a great wideout as well,” Fleck said. “He can hit like a linebacker, he can cover like a corner, but the more space he has to be able to maneuver and be himself and be really athletic, the better he is.”
There are several good parts to this one. We get a lot of nice backstory on Nubin especially around his versatility at safety.
>The coaching staff even took pictures of Nubin’s notes to show current players how to study properly.
>”He has this rolodex and this brain that is almost like a photographic mind,” Fleck said. “If he gets beat once, he knows how he got beat, what he got beat with, and he knows the tendencies of that. He studies that, and rarely do you get him again. In fact, he probably gets you the next time. He constantly takes things off the board for offenses because you’re only going to be able to use it once.”
>That covers the “smart” part.
>Nubin, who played six games on a torn meniscus last year, also checks the “tough” and “dependable” boxes for coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen.
>”[He’s] going to be a reflection of what Coach Daboll is trying to build,” Fleck said. “I think that goes hand in hand. He’ll never put himself before a team. He never did that here. He had plenty of opportunities to do that and he never did that. Even when he came back for his last year, he could have easily, probably been drafted in the second or third round last year. He decided to come back for not only himself and help his draft stock, but it was for the team. It was for beating Iowa, which we hadn’t done here, and he did that. So, he put all these things before himself, and I think that’s what he’s going to do with the Giants.”
There’s a a few parts that talk about him and his good habits translating to the locker room. A name like Antione Winfield Jr. even gets mentioned. We’ve had a lot of good hype for guys like Nabers can’t forget we got some new things to look forward to on the defensive side of the ball.
A great case for why he was the 1st Safety off the board.