Two years in the past, Los Angeles Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey, then with the Jacksonville Jaguars, made waves when he blasted what gave the impression to be half the NFL’s distinguished quarterbacks in a GQ interview.

The harshest criticism was reserved for Buffalo Payments quarterback Josh Allen, who hadn’t even performed in a sport since being taken seventh general within the 2018 NFL draft. Between saying the rookie was “trash” and “a silly draft choose,” Ramsey made very clear that he anticipated no NFL success from one of many draft’s most divisive prospects.

Ramsey even doubled down months later after a promising however uneven season from Allen.

Nevertheless, Ramsey now seems to have modified his tune.

Jalen Ramsey on Josh Allen: ‘He’s gifted’

Josh Allen is trying fairly good lately. (AP Picture/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

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Quick ahead to 2 weeks into the 2020 NFL season, and Allen very a lot doesn’t appear like “trash.” He seems like an MVP candidate. And he’s gone from being “a silly draft choose” to the consensus second-best quarterback in his class.

In two video games, each Payments wins, Allen has accomplished 57 of 81 passes for 727 passing yards (finest within the NFL via Week 2), 6 touchdowns and zero interceptions, plus 76 speeding yards a landing on the bottom. The earlier season, he led the Payments to a playoff berth and established himself because the clear basis for the franchise.

With the Rams set to face the Payments in Week 3, questions on Allen have been inevitable for Ramsey. When requested in regards to the quarterback by Sports activities Illustrated’s Eric Williams, Ramsey had some reward. Not so much, however some:

“He’s gifted,” Ramsey stated.

“He presents challenges,” Ramsey stated. “Each week you must face a brand new problem, and that is our third week so we’ve got to face the problem of him and that Payments’ offense. He has some weapons round him. He could make performs working the ball and lengthening performs, and so forth, and so forth. … Type of the issues everybody is aware of about him.

“However I’m assured in what I can do and this Rams’ protection can do, and that’s form of what issues essentially the most to me and the fellows round right here.”

That’s not precisely consuming crow for Ramsey, nevertheless it at the least reveals his opinion has modified on Allen.

For reference, here’s what Ramsey needed to say in that GQ interview:

I believe [Buffalo Bills draft pick Josh] Allen is trash. I do not care what no one say. He is trash. And it is gonna present too. That is a silly draft choose to me. We play them this 12 months, and I am excited as hell. I hope he is their beginning quarterback. He performed at Wyoming. Each time they performed an enormous faculty—like, they performed Iowa State, which isn’t an enormous faculty in my view as a result of I went to Florida State, and he threw 5 interceptions, they usually misplaced by a pair touchdowns or one thing like that. He by no means beat an enormous faculty. If you happen to take a look at his video games in opposition to large colleges, it was all the time hella interceptions, hella turnovers. It is like: Yo, in case you’re this good, why could not you do higher? He suits that mildew, he is an enormous, tall quarterback. Large arm, supposedly. I do not see it, personally.

To be truthful to Ramsey, he wasn’t precisely alone is seeing Allen as a quarterback with prototypical measurement and athleticism, and little else. The Payments acquired their fair proportion of mockery for choosing a participant with a mediocre observe report in opposition to lesser competitors than each different first-round quarterback.

To Allen’s credit score, he appears to have been nothing however develop since taking the sector with the Payments, and is clearly a promising participant. Nevertheless, that’s to not say Ramsey was utterly flawed.

Simply take a look at what he stated straight after trashing Allen:

I’d’ve picked [Lamar Jackson] sooner than 32. I believe he is gonna do a superb job. Particularly with the [Baltimore Ravens’] offensive coordinator—he likes working quarterbacks, likes that learn choice. And simply being sincere about it, [Joe] Flacco sucks. I performed him two years in a row. He sucks.

Appears pretty prescient.

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