The Chiefs have selected Texas A&M safety Armani Watts with their fourth-round pick. pic.twitter.com/O3TIIrkvTc
— Arrowhead Pride (@ArrowheadPride) April 28, 2018
Out of all the picks in the Kansas City Chiefs 2018 draft, Armani Watts is the only one I knew anything about. He had 324 tackles in his college career. Three-hundred and twenty-four. If your’e not amazed by that, you should be. Go ahead and count up to 324 right now…. I’ll give you some time… I’m waiting… still waiting… I’ll give you some more time. Decided to call it quits and just read the rest of this article didn’t you. I don’t blame you. I’m sure the opposition was tired of being tackled by Armani Watts too. Now, his tackles aren’t your friendly neighborly front yard football kinda tackles. He literally lit people up. I’m sure there are ex-college players still telling the story about the day that Armani Watts hit them. Don’t believe me? Whatever! I’ll explain more in a few minutes… maybe three minutes and 45 seconds. You all know I’m kind of a wordy guy. However, I decided that today, instead of writing like my life depended on it… that I’d show you … in a graceful way… how impressive Armani Watts tackling really has been. First…
If you love big hits…
If you love Pachelbel’s Canon in D…
If you love the ballet within the game of football…
Then you might like…
“Armani Watts in D.”
I could have gone with Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture but there’s really only one big moment in that piece. I could have gone with Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat minor but its lasts more than 30 minutes and Armani Watts probably does have enough hits to fill that video… however, I don’t have the stamina. It is incredibly beautiful and if you have an inkling you should check it out.
Here’s what people are saying:
New Chiefs' safety Armani Watts recorded 82 tackles, four interceptions and two forced fumbles last season for Texas A&M, earning a spot on the AP All-America Third Team.
— Matt McMullen (@KCChiefs_Matt) April 28, 2018
Well hi Armani Watts. Right where you're supposed to be and demonstrating fantastic ball skills, I see. pic.twitter.com/2sENMwuki9
— Seth Keysor (@RealMNchiefsfan) April 28, 2018
Chiefs General Manager Brett Veach says of Armani Watts,
“Armani is a guy that had really, really good game tape. He’s a physical player. You can get into the strong safety, free safety stuff, but we do so much high-low stuff with our free safeties so they have to be interchangeable. He can play down low because he is physical, he is tough, loves to hit, but he also has very good instincts and ball skills and he’s very good at anticipating routes. I don’t know if you guys saw the Arkansas game at Texas Stadium this year, he won the game the game in overtime just by anticipating a red zone throw there. So, the guy has tremendous feel back there, so we think over time he can certainly develop into a starting safety.”
The more I watch tape on Armani Watts, the more I think his tape is the best tape out of all the Chiefs picks.
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