STRENGTHS
Javonte has the size, strength, high football IQ, and overall athletic talent to be a feature back for the team that selects him. He is a powerful running back with the ability to break tackles at the line of scrimmage between the tackles as well as the quickness and lateral agility to make a player miss. He has excellent hands out of the backfield and has the size and high football IQ to pick up the blitz and make the block. Javonte is a complete running back with the size that allows him to be able to stay on the field for all three downs. Javonte has the talent to block or catch or run the ball between the tackles or outside on sweeps and screens. He is a complete back who will get the tough yards on any down and distance in any style of offense.
CONCERNS
Javonte is not a speed running back but once you are over the 50-yard line he has enough speed to take it to the house.
BOTTOM LINE 1.86
If you’re a team that lacks a running game, I suggest you look hard at selecting this kid at any point in the draft. I’m not going to tell you where a player is most likely to be selected in a draft. I don’t’ have enough information to do that. I am going to tell you, what I think a player’s impact will be for the team that selects him and where I would select him in the draft but that’s all. I look at the film and tell you what I see. I don’t tell you what to think, that’s up to you. I suggest that you look at the film and see if what you are seeing agrees with what I am seeing but if it doesn’t, well that is what makes a Draftnik. It’s like politics, you see what you want to see and you listen and absorb what you want to absorb, the truth… you find out down the road, and even then, the truth sometimes is very hard to agree with. I suspect the “media experts” will not be that impressed as I am, with Javonte because he lacks the speed to excite them and is not flashy, and did not carry the ball 35 times a game. So, look at Rob’s board for the likely round Javonte will be selected in and know this…if your team selects Javonte the fans are going to fall in love with his talent and workman-like, efficiency he goes about playing his position. Your quarterback is going to love how dependable he is in the biggest games and his teammates and coaches are going to appreciate his leadership skills and high football IQ. Javonte has the patience of an alligator waiting for his prey to come closer and closer and then he strikes with the power and quickness that most running backs do not have. That’s why I call him Javonte (Gator) Williams.
