Taylor Doll talks with Texas A&M defensive line coach Tony Jerod-Eddie about his former player, Bears second-round draft pick Shemar Turner.
On her latest Making Monsters podcast on our 2nd City Gridiron channels, Taylor Doll talked with Texas A&M defensive line coach Tony Jerod-Eddie about his former player, and Chicago Bears second-round draft pick Shemar Turner. They talk about his versatility, his toughness, and his passion for the game of football.
Coach Jerod-Eddie joined Taylor from the recruiting road, but he was happy to jump on and share some insight about Turner with our listeners.
“He’s played literally everywhere,” Jerod-Eddie said about Turner’s time at Texas A&M, “every position from a nine to a six to a five, 4i, a three-technique, 2i, a one-technique, a zero. I mean, you can do a lot with players like that, especially in the league that you guys are in. I think that’s one of the main reasons that he’s going to thrive in that league is because of his versatility.”
Coach said that in 2024, Turner played mostly defensive tackle (3-tech and 2i), but he feels he was at his best the previous year playing field-side defensive end, saying, “He was just a menace.”
“But the stuff that don’t show up on the stat sheet is the effort and how hard he plays and the motor that he plays with is just stuff that you can’t teach and you kinda just gotta have it and he’s got it.”
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