{"id":24045,"date":"2025-04-03T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/?p=24045"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T11:22:16","slug":"xavier-watts-saf-notre-dame-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/xavier-watts-saf-notre-dame-senior\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Watts, SAF, Notre Dame (Senior)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"24045\" class=\"elementor elementor-24045\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3da4bc78 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3da4bc78\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column 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incroyable<\/li><li>R\u00e9activit\u00e9<\/li><li>Impact contre le jeu au sol<\/li><li>Versatility in alignments<\/li><li>Pas ou tr\u00e8s peu de flags contre lui<\/li><\/ul><p><strong><br \/>Weaknesses<\/strong> :<\/p><div class=\"docos-replyview docos-anchoredreplyview docsshared-no-select-when-no-download docos-replyview-comment\"><div class=\"docos-collapsible-replyview\"><div class=\"docos-replyview-static\"><ul><li class=\"docos-replyview-body docos-anchoredreplyview-body docos-replyview-body-emoji-reactable\" dir=\"ltr\">Petit manque d&rsquo;exp\u00e9rience au poste<\/li><li dir=\"ltr\">Pursuit angles<\/li><li dir=\"ltr\">Doit peaufiner sa technique et ses transitions<\/li><li dir=\"ltr\">Attention \u00e0 l&rsquo;overcommitment<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"docos-replyview docos-anchoredreplyview docsshared-no-select-when-no-download docos-replyview-comment\"><div class=\"docos-anchoredreplyview-header\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><p><!-- \/wp:paragraph 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">SAF Xavier Watts<br><br>V\u00e9ritable profil de playmaker, ball-hawk en puissance mais aussi capable d&#39;avoir un gros impact contre le jeu au sol. Ses lectures du QB sont excellentes et j&#39;aime son agressivit\u00e9 en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. Belle polyvalence d&#39;alignements, solide face aux TEs.<br>Potentiel 1st rd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AcODMAhwJv\">pic.twitter.com\/AcODMAhwJv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Valentin (@ScoutValentin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScoutValentin\/status\/1822211291261309389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-70d66d7f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"70d66d7f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-695ca611\" data-id=\"695ca611\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c11d8dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4c11d8dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><strong>TTProfil<\/strong><\/h3><p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p><p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p><div class=\"docos-docoview-rootreply\"><div class=\"docos-replyview docos-anchoredreplyview docos-replyview-first docos-replyview-comment\"><div class=\"docos-collapsible-replyview\"><div class=\"docos-replyview-static\"><div dir=\"ltr\"><div class=\"docos-docoview-rootreply\"><div class=\"docos-replyview docos-anchoredreplyview docsshared-no-select-when-no-download docos-replyview-first docos-replyview-comment\"><div class=\"docos-collapsible-replyview\"><div class=\"docos-replyview-static\"><div class=\"docos-replyview-body docos-anchoredreplyview-body docos-replyview-body-emoji-reactable\" dir=\"ltr\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xavier Watts a un gabarit dans la moyenne pour le poste. Son acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration et sa vitesse sont bonnes mais pas \u00e9lites. Il poss\u00e8de un tr\u00e8s bon footwork et une belle quickness. Il a un gros moteur, il est capable de jouer \u00e0 100% sur tous les jeux et avec une belle agressivit\u00e9 qui vient compenser un l\u00e9ger manque de puissance.<\/span><\/p><br \/><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En Man son backpedal est assez bon mais parfois il a tendance \u00e0 avoir les jambes trop s\u00e9rr\u00e9s ce qui peut provoquer de la raideur dans les hanches lors de ses transitions, chose corrigeable mais qui a mis en lumi\u00e8re son manque d\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration \u00e9lite pour rattraper ses erreurs techniques dans le deep. Il fait aussi preuve d\u2019un petit manque d\u2019agilit\u00e9 et de quickness lat\u00e9rale ce qui provoque des retards dans les changements de direction. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watts est bon en les couvertures de zones, il peut jouer sur les 2 niveaux que \u00e7a soit en lower ou deep coverage mais il a un manque d\u2019IQ \u00e0 certains moments car il pr\u00e9f\u00e8re couvrir sa zone assign\u00e9e plut\u00f4t que ce que propose le joueur d\u2019en face, il doit mieux s\u2019adapter \u00e0 ce qui se passe devant lui car il comprends les notions de niveaux et ne se fait pas battre dans son dos. En single high il est aussi tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressant \u00e0 mon sens mais il a encore du peaufinage technique \u00e0 effectuer dans ses transitions pour \u00eatre utilis\u00e9 seulement dans cette position lors de ses premi\u00e8res ann\u00e9es et je remet en doute son range d\u00fb \u00e0 son manque d\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration \u00e9lite. Mais encore une fois il pourra assumer ce r\u00f4le en NFL. En revanche en Cover 2 son range serait \u00e9lite.<\/span><\/p><br \/><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watts a des ball skills \u00e9lites notamment gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 son pass\u00e9 de WR au lyc\u00e9e. Il est un ball hawk par excellence, son incroyable sens du jeu lui permet de toujours \u00eatre dans les bons coups et d\u2019\u00eatre un playmaker hors pair. Il a de tr\u00e8s bonnes mains, une belle coordination oeil\/pied\/main que je peux m\u00eame qualifier de rare pour un Safety. 13 interceptions sur ses 2 derni\u00e8res saisons. Watts lis tr\u00e8s bien le jeu au sol adverse et r\u00e9agit tr\u00e8s rapidement tout comme contre le jeu a\u00e9rien gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une click and close \u00e9lite <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(C\u2019est la capacit\u00e9 d&rsquo;un DB ou d&rsquo;un LB \u00e0 lire l&rsquo;action et r\u00e9agir avec trigger et agressivit\u00e9)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0mais son manque de patience et ses angles de poursuites parfois mauvais l\u2019ont fait passer \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de big play. Il doit aussi paufiner sa technique de plaquage, il lui arrive de plaquer avec l\u2019\u00e9paule uniquement. Ceci dit, encore une fois il poss\u00e8de un v\u00e9ritable instinct dans ce domaine et sa capcit\u00e9 \u00e0 \u00eatre impactant en CFB contre le jeu au sol devrait pouvoir se transitionner en NFL de belle mani\u00e8re.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p><p><strong>Xavier Watts a selon moi besoin de plus d\u2019\u00e9xp\u00e9rience, il est une ancienne recrue WR, il a jou\u00e9 un an en LB et 3 en safety dont deux en titulaire (et il n\u2019apparait pas sur tous les jeux). Il n\u2019est pas le plus rapide ni le plus puissant mais son instinct hors du commun r\u00e9hausse son niveau global et lui permet d\u2019\u00eatre un playmaker sur tous les aspects du jeu. Sa polyvalence d\u2019alignement entre Free safety et nickel est une chose importante, il poss\u00e8de tout les atouts d\u2019un safety moderne et hybrid qui peut avoir un fort impact en NFL.<br \/><br \/><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Grade : Low 1st round<br \/>Draft Projection : Day 2<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Watts, SAF, Notre Dame (Senior) La Draft NFL 2025 approche \u00e0 grand pas et malgr\u00e9 une cuv\u00e9e qui de prime abord semblait manquer de talent, l&rsquo;\u00e9quipe de The Trick Play s&rsquo;est \u00e0 nouveau plong\u00e9 dans les tapes afin de pouvoir vous proposer les scouting reports des joueurs qui porteront bient\u00f4t le maillot de vos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,262],"tags":[77,79,75,103,252,72,284,283],"class_list":["post-24045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-s-2025","category-scouting-2025","tag-draft","tag-ncaa","tag-nfl-draft","tag-notre-dame","tag-saf","tag-scouting","tag-watts","tag-xavier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24045"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24052,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045\/revisions\/24052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickplay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}