I Can’t Believe What This 49ers Rookie Is Doing..

I Can’t Believe What This 49ers Rookie Is Doing..

In a year full of surprises for San Francisco, probably the biggest one was their fifth round selection out of Kansas State and Marqueis Seagull. The rookie safety was able to grab onto the starting job week one and really hasn’t looked back. Not only is he a tackling machine, ranking third on San Francisco’s defense and second among all safeties in the NFL, he’s also made several key plays that kept San Francisco in the game. Like most recently against the Rams, he came up from his safety position on fourth and one in overtime and stopped the back short of the marker, winning San Francisco the game. On top of that, he offers ideal versatility for Robert Saul’s defense as he has a background as a quarterback. He spent his first couple of years of his collegiate career there before transferring over to the safety position. meaning the future is brighter than ever for Marqueis Seagull. Especially if you consider the fact he’s one of the most athletic safeties across the National Football League as he has a relative athleticism score of 9.64 and he ran his 40-yard dash in a blistering fast 4.37 seconds. So, in this video, we’re going to go over what’s made Seagull such an effective player in Sol’s defense so far and where he can continue to improve to show why I believe he can be San Francisco’s next Pro Bowl level safety. Initially starting out, every time I turn on Seagull’s tape, what really stands out to me is how quickly he’s able to recognize the play, especially running plays. Here on his fourth down stop in overtime, for instance, you have to realize this is a fifth round rookie who’s pretty new to the position, but he looks like a vet. He’s able to identify this wide receiver motioning pre- snap, which gives him an indicator based on his film study. 23 is getting the ball and coming right off 88’s block. post snap, he’s able to confirm it. And here you see his insane athleticism. Despite starting deep in his safety position, he instantly closes his distance, meets his back in the hole, and pushes him back, stopping them on fourth and one, winning San Francisco the game in overtime. In a similar way here, lined up in a traditional safety alignment, Seagull once again is using pre-nap reads to give him an indicator what the play is postnap. Here he’s reading this wide receiver motioning across the field, giving him an indicator it’s potentially a jet sweep or a fake jet sweep. This is why he starts to motion pre- snap towards this wide receiver. And then post snap, he starts to read the offensive lineman, creating clear lanes for this back to run behind. And knowing gets an inside run here, he shoots it without any hesitation and meets his back right in this open lane. And he does a phenomenal job of tackling. He gets low right here or breaks down in the open field. And then once he makes contact with his back, he’s shooting through his hips to bring him down for only a gain of four yards. And even when Seagull isn’t given any pre-nap indicators what the offense may run postnap, he has an uncanny ability of identifying the play. To really illustrate this point on this play, Seagull is able to identify the run from the Rams because these offensive linemen are double teaming up to the second level to give this back clear lanes to run behind. So Seagull shoots the lane closest to him. And because he’s such a crazy athlete, he finds his way into the backfield, which gets his back to try to bounce outside on San Francisco, but Seagull’s able to make his way into the backfield, make contact with him, and help bring him down for a pretty minimal gain. Another key part of Seagull’s success in the running game is his ability to be San Francisco’s eraser as their safety. Here, for example, he quickly identifies his running play once again, engages with this wide receiver, uses a pole technique to disengage, and you can say what you want about this tackle, but he stops him right there, really being San Francisco’s eraser, eliminating a much bigger play here. It’s also worth noting he has a versatility to come up and act as San Francisco’s box safety here with the Rams running a similar play to that fourth and one we watched earlier for instance. Seagull once again does a fantastic job of identifying it and with this back bouncing outside Seagull recognizes this, slides over, meets him there and makes a tackle for a three-y gain. Speaking of Seagull’s versatility, as I was alluding to earlier, because he has a background as a quarterback, he can go ahead and man up on tight ends and wide receivers. Here, for example, he’s manned up on this tight end that uses a double hand press technique to disrupt his route. And this entire time, he’s keeping his eyes on this quarterback, which not only helps him not draw the PI as he’s clearly in play for this ball, but it also gives him an indicator Stafford is looking his direction. And as soon as the ball is coming there, it looks like he knows it is. attacks his ball there, nearly gets an interception right there, and in the future, I think it’s just a matter of time before he starts running these the other direction. Seagull’s ability to recognize when the ball is coming and attacking it also makes it so he’s not giving up deep PI penalties. To really illustrate this point, in deep zone coverage, Zagull is able to identify Nua coming, but he’s also playing the ball. So, even though he’s making incidental contact on this play, he doesn’t draw the PI. And while I would like to see him make this interception or actually go up and attack this ball in the future, I am happy how he’s looking back to the quarterback and is in play for a lot of these plays. Seagull also does a nice job of identifying the wide receivers’s routes and then shooting without hesitation in zone coverage. Here on this play, for example, Seagull is responsible for the deep half of this field. But with Matthew Stafford quickly identifying and targeting Puka Nakua, Seagull is able to read this, come up from his safety position, and make the open field tackle for a gain of 11. Seagull also does a nice job in zone coverage being San Francisco’s eraser in a similar way. He’s the eraser in the run game. Here on this play, for example, both Fred Warner and D. Winters think this is a screen, but they read it wrong, leaving San Francisco susceptible to this pass. Seagull though is quick to identify this. So once again is able to come up from his safety position, break down in the open field and make the secure tackle right here on Neu. Once again, in a similar way on a lot of those deep completions Seagull made the tackle on, he was really erasing the much bigger play. On this play, for example, San Francisco’s defense is running cover six with Marqueis Seagull responsible for the deep half of this field. And Vonte Adams on this play is attacking the weakness of this coverage coming back on this little curl route. Maris Seagull though is pretty quick to recognize it. Comes up from his deep coverage on this play. And with Renardo Green missing the tackle, he cleans up and saves a much bigger play here. Outside of his ability as a covered safety, he also has a versatility to be sent on blitzes because he is such an athletic player. And while he doesn’t have a sack yet, I do think Robert Saul is only going to use him more and more in this aspect because of the loss of Nick Bosa. With all these positives to Seagull’s game though, he is a fifthround rookie and pretty new to the safety position. So, he definitely has some areas of concern and some areas I would like to see him continue to improve head forward with one of the most notable areas of concern in my opinion just being his short arms. In the passing game, this makes it a lot more challenging for him to actually break up the pass. Like here against the Rams going against his big body tight end, he has pretty great positioning, but because he doesn’t have the longest arms, he’s not able to break it up here. It’s also worth noting because Seagull is such an aggressive player and a rookie, he’s not going to be right every single time. Sometimes he’s going to take a bad angle or misidentify a route a wide receiver is running. But overall, is he growing? And I think the answer to that is yes. So even though Seagull does have some areas of concern to his game, that’s normal, especially for a fifthround rookie starting in his first year and a player pretty new to the safety position. So headed forward, I only think he’s going to continue to improve and eventually be a Pro Bowl safety. But ultimately, these are just some of my thoughts on Marqueis Seagull after five games so far. And I want to hear your thoughts about San Francisco’s rookie safety. Do you think he has the potential to be a dominant player like I do, or do you think he’s just going to be solid for this team? It would also mean a ton to me if you did enjoy this video if you could go ahead and like and subscribe. It truly helps out the channel a ton. And as always, I hope you guys have a great rest of your

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