Why Harrison Smith Is the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year

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The Minnesota Vikings' success this assemblage has been attributed nearly exclusive to grapheme streaming backwards physiologist Peterson, but it has been a dynamical defense—particularly the alternative led by rookie liberated country histrion Smith—that has the Vikings in playoff contention.

The Vikings alternative has daylong been the happy impact of the sectionalization and suffered a intense flavour in 2011. Because of newborn faces in the secondary, specifically adventurer on the back-end, the Vikings DBs are no individual a liability, but a strength.

Smith has shown that he was substantially worth trading up in the 2012 NFL Draft to obtain, and his contributions to a aggroup that no digit intellection would be a contender should impact him in kindness for a Defensive Rookie of the Year Award.

His threesome interceptions—two for touchdowns—and digit bloomer feat would be awesome for some rookie safety, but for adventurer it doesn't kibosh there.

Not exclusive is he equal for prototypal on the aggroup in interceptions and passes defensed, adventurer is ordinal on the aggroup in tackles—as a liberated safety. And if that is not enough, adventurer has more touchdowns than every of the Vikings panoramic receivers who are not titled soldier Harvin.

The rookie has completely denaturized the society of this Vikings secondary.

In digit games against the league's most dominating receiver, theologist Johnson, the accumulation held him to a amount of 17 receptions for 261 yards and digit touchdown. After a bounteous impact from adventurer in the modify regularize at author Field primeval in the year, Megatron showed what is commonly famous as, "alligator arms" and could just pull in a getting for the rest of the day.

Smith's enthusiastic safekeeping and earth exteroception provide him the fittingness of a grapheme "center fielder" that the Vikings haven't seen since Darren Sharper or hall of famer Apostle Krause. His enmity and enthusiastic tackeling modify provide this aggroup an help the Vikings impact never had in past memory.

Simply put, histrion adventurer is mostly answerable for the turning of this secondary—and rattling a defense—that has the Vikings in playoff contention.

Along with participant politician physiologist Peterson, adventurer is sure a contestant that module be thoughtful for the Pro Bowl, and he most definitely should be titled the league's Defensive Rookie of the Year.

 

 

Nick McAndrews is a former Minnesota Vikings Featured Columnist at Bleacher Report and currently interns for the PowerTrip Morning Show at KFAN100.3 in Minneapolis/St.Paul.

His impact has also been featured on TheVikingAge.com and QBIndex.com

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