During the Jets’ recent rookie minicamp, Aaron Glenn walked around the whole field and checked in on all position groups, but you could tell he was looking at third-round rookie corner Azareye’h Thomas like a hawk.
Having Glenn, a former great NFL cornerback, as his head coach is going to be huge for the maturation process of Thomas, and he knows it.
“Having your head coach having been a former corner, I mean, you really can’t ask for nothing greater than that,’ said Thomas, a native of Niceville, FL, a town on the Florida Gulf Coast.
While his position coach, Dre Bly, a former NFL cornerback himself, is going to help Thomas’ development a ton, Glenn is also going to have a huge impact on the kid.
Glenn is superb at developing defensive backs. He was in New Orleans as well as in Detroit, the last two stops of his assistant coaching career before getting the Jets head coaching.
Don’t be shocked if Thomas, who played collegiately at Florida State, performs above his third-round draft slot with Glenn heavily involved in his development.
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