Sunday 17 July 2016

Big Blue Fans Respected Ashton Cobb

In the 2007 season of Ashton Cobb’s collegiate football career at the University of Kentucky, Cobb was second among University of Kentucky defensive backs with 42 tackles in the season. Cobb started in two games, and opened at free safety versus LSU, starting at strong safety versus Florida. Cobb set a career high with seven tackles against LSU, matching this with seven tackles at Vanderbilt. Cobb made his first career interception against Eastern Kentucky.
Ashton Cobb

Ashton Cobb excelled at the safety position at the University of Kentucky in Lexington in the United States. Cobb played both strong and free safety positions during his time with UK. Cobb was named Mr. Kentucky, which lauded Cobb as, pound for pound, the strongest man on the UK team. Cobb ran the 40 in 4.51, gaining stats of over 100 tackles, 3 interceptions, 3 forced fumbles and 2 fumble recoveries with one for a touchdown.

As a member of the football squad of University of Kentucky, Ashton Cobb was popular and respected with fans of the Big Blue, who universally regarded him as extremely talented and skilled at the Safety defensive position. “#2–He is a quality player,” opined one blog fan. Cobb delivered steadily positive performance game after game at UK, executing with increasing skill and certainty the decisive passing blocks and aborted rushing games of opponents from his strong Safety defensive position. In 2009, Cobb was a decisive force in the Wildcats miraculous after halftime comeback to upset LSU as the Wildcats triumphed in the Liberty Bowl.
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Monday 11 July 2016

High School Accolades of Ashton Cobb

Ashton Cobb grew up 6th in a large family of 11 siblings in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, where his father raised his children in the precepts of his profession as a minister. Cobb had a close family and learned the value of the competitive spirit growing up with so many. Cobb also benefited from his close relationship with his father, as both enjoyed working out and often went together to the gym. Cobb enjoyed a healthy small town upbringing, playing sports with his friends and siblings and praying at his father’s church on Sundays. As the years flew by for Cobb, his physical attributes became obvious. Topping out at 6’1” and 215lbs. during his college years, Cobb was destined to play the most physical of competitive sports, football.

Ashton Cobb Ashton Cobb became a four-year letterman and a first team all-state football safety, so named by The Associated Press, at Center High School in Monaca, Pennsylvania. Cobb started for three years at the strong safety position and was a two-year starter at fullback, as well as playing intermittently as a punter. Cobb received honorable mention for all-state status as a high school sophomore, as well as achieving four-year letterman status in track and field events including the 100-meter dash, the relay, shot put and javelin throw, achieving third in state in shot put as a junior and a senior. Cobb was a member of the football club’s 1200 Club in weightlifting, with top lifts of 370 pounds in bench press and 465 in squats.

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Monday 4 July 2016

Ashton Cobb Navigates Complexities of Free Agency

Ashton Cobb, currently an NFL free agent, is the perfect strong safety. Physical, with great feet and quickness and exceptional speed, Cobb stops the run with tackling athleticism at his command. With today’s passing game enjoying extreme popularity, Cobb covers receivers with alacrity. Strong safeties are relied upon to move quickly all over the field, able to make plays on both the run and the pass.

Ashton Cobb is excited about the prospect of playing in the National Football League of the United States, and as a free agent, is a player of professional sports who has eligibility to sign and play with any football club or franchise. Free agents are not under contract to any specific team, or, the term free agent may also be applied to players who are under contract but who are allowed to search for offers from other football teams. In some cases, free agents like Ashton Cobb may be limited as to their signing options by league rules.

Unrestricted free agents may entertain offers to play from any and all other teams and to make their own contractual decisions. Unrestricted free agents may sign with any club up until and including the first scheduled day of NFL training camp in July. After that, the unrestricted free agent’s rights revert to his prior club if it has made him an offer of 110 percent of last year’s salary by June 1. His old club may resign him up until the Tuesday after the 10th week of the season. If he is not resigned, he must sit out that season. If the player was not offered a contract by June 1, he can be signed anywhere at any time throughout the season. Unrestricted free agents are players who have completed four or more seasons and have an expired contract.

Ashton Cobb
Ashton Cobb is a free agent in the National Football League of the United States, and maintains a rigorous training schedule of 5 or more hours a day. Cobb remains at his peak athletic skills, reiterating his desire to play at strong safety, free safety, linebacker and even a defensive back position as a professional player. To date, Cobb has excelled as a strong safety on the defensive squad for the University of Kentucky at Lexington in the United States, and his daily workout regimen reinforces his skills at that position, while he also trains as a free safety, linebacker and defensive back. The position of safety relies on a complex understanding of the game and its offensive plays, the running game, the passing game, and the various skills of those who play on the opposing offensive line. As such, safeties like Cobb use their game acumen as well as smarts and game instincts.

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