Forum on Dylan Donahue

Mayock said he had never heard of the kid until he sat down to watch his film. He said he was just going to take a peak at first but then ended up watching 3 full games because he was so fun to watch.

Guy plays like his hair is on fire.

Maybe Greene doesn't coach him up to be the next Clay Matthews but maybe a Brooks Reed isn't out of the question.

Color me not impressed as I think he's a long shot to even make the 53 let alone be active. He's already 25 and I only saw two snaps where he was standing up so he's a project...a 25 year old project. I think he missed at least 6 tackles in that game against Albany State.

He does have a good first step and shows some pass rush moves: spin, bullrush, and a rip. His lateral ability also looks decent. His only hope IMO is becoming a core special teams player as I doubt he'll see many downs on defense.

FLORHAM PARK -- Up there on the cold, icy roof in Montana, Dylan Donahue thought things couldn't get much worse.



He had boozed and failed his way out of college, ditched his football aspirations, and went home to Billings, to work for his dad's roofing company in the fall of 2012. And he was completely miserable.



"I was just hating my life," he recalled Saturday after the Jets picked him in Round 5 of the 2017 NFL Draft. "Didn't know where I was going, what I was going to do. It just kind of felt pointless."



So that day, he decided to give football another shot.



"It was like a sign from God," Donahue said.



One of his friends happened to call him that day. They played high school football together, and the friend had then played at Palomar College, a junior college near San Diego.



The friend suggested Donahue give Palomar a shot, and said players out of there, guys Donahue was better than, were landing Division I scholarships.



This was Donahue's opening, his chance to make things right after botching his chance at Montana Western (an NAIA school) in 2011, when he redshirted as a freshman, partied too hard, and studied too little -- just as he neglected academics in high school, which put him at an NAIA school in the first place.



After playing 2013 and 2014 at Palomar -- and paying his own way -- Donahue landed at West Georgia, a Division II school near Atlanta. He had 12 and 13.5 sacks in two years there, and now he'll be an outside linebacker for the Jets -- a 6-foot-3, 248-pound pass rusher.



He played defensive line at West Georgia, but because of his size, he'll have to transition to outside linebacker in the NFL, as he hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father. Mitch Donahue was a fourth-round pick by the 49ers in 1991. He played 31 games as a backup defensive end in the league, with San Francisco and Denver, over the course of four years.



"It's quite an unbelievable feeling for me, because of everything that I've gone through to get here," Dylan Donahue said. "I can't wait to see what happens."