Patriots Fan Weekly: Markell Carter’s positional coach raves about him

Keeping the Markell posts coming… best nugget from the article:

“He was our drop end. So any time we zone blitzed, we never brought him on a zone blitz. He always dropped. And we zone blitzed a good bit. And I think that’s one of the things that made it easier for New England when they were watching on film to say that this was a guy they could transition to that position, because they saw him dropping.

“Hey, he’s got some of the best hands on our team. He goes over there and catches Jugs with our receivers and talks trash with the receivers. He’s a good enough receiver catching the ball to play receiver. He’s not going to go out there and run a 4.5 like those guys do, but he can catch the ball. He’s got hands to play receiver. But I’m going to say athletically it’ll be no problem. He was an all-state basketball player. He’s an athlete.”

Augustine actually thinks that getting after the quarterback is Carter’s primary natural strength.

“I think what got him to the position he is right now is his ability to rush the passer,” Augustine said. “Natural way of getting off the ball and then closing his shoulders around the edge of the offensive linemen and getting their hands off him. He can flip his hips, and do all that stuff. But he doesn’t excel at that. He excels at keeping the hands off and dipping and leaning the corner.”