Draft Scout Snapshot: DS Rating on 8/24/08: #10 ILB, #185/750 Overall, Projected Rnd: 6
2008: Brinkley captured All-Southeastern Conference second-team honors...Started all but the Florida game at middle linebacker, ranking third on the team with 65 tackles (42 solos)... Had 2.5 sacks for minus 20 yards, five stops for losses totaling 24 yards and three QB pressures...Caused two fumbles and picked off a pass...Helped the Gamecocks rank fourth in the SEC and 13th in the nation in total defense (291.92) and lead the conference while finishing second in the NCAA ranks with an average of 159.23 yards allowed passing...Brinkley started 29 of 30 games at South Carolina, recording 193 tackles (142 solos) with 7.5 sacks for minus 42 yards, 20.5 stops for losses of 65 yards and five pressures...Batted down five passes, intercepted three others for 40 yards in returns and caused two fumbles...His 85 solo tackles in 2006 rank second in school history, topped by Jonathan Martin (93 in 2002)...His 14.5 stops behind the line of scrimmage in 2006 placed him fourth on the school single-season record list behind Eric Norwood (19.5 in 2007), Rickey Hagood (16.0 in 1983) and Andrew Provence (15.0 in 1982)...2007: 4 GP; 4 GS; 15 Sol-21 TT, 1 TFL, 2 INT, 1 PBU; Received a medical redshirt for the 2007 season… was the only Gamecock named pre-season first team All-SEC by both the SEC coaches and the media in 2007 and was named to the pre-season watch lists for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Lombardi Award, Butkus Award and for the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award… finished the season with 21 tackles including 15 solo stops in four games…2006: 13 GP; 13 GS; 85 Sol-107 TT, 14.5 TFL, 5 SK, 4 PBU, 2 QBH; Former junior college transfer who earned first team All-SEC honors by the Associated Press in 2006… arrived in Columbia in January of 2006 and went through spring drills… started all 13 games… team's leading tackler with 107 total stops, over twice as many as any other player on the squad… an amazing 79 percent of those (85 of 107) were solo stops… ranked fourth in the league and 55th in the country in tackles, averaging 8.2 per game… of the returning SEC players, only Kentucky's Wesley Woodyard had more tackles than Brinkley in 2006… led the team and was sixth in the league with 14.5 tackles for loss… also recorded 5.0 sacks… led the team in tackles in eight of 13 games...JC: Attended Georgia Military College in Milledgeville, Ga. Where he was coached by Bert Williams… was a preseason first-team All-America linebacker who earned second-team post-season All-America accolades… recognized as the team's MVP both as a freshman and sophomore...Twin brother, Casper, also signed with USC.
Post-Draft Outlook: A closer look at the Vikings' picks: Round 5/150 -- Jasper Brinkley, LB, 6-1, 252, South Carolina...The Vikings thought enough of Brinkley that they swapped fifth-round picks with Washington and also gave the Redskins a seventh-rounder in order to move up. Brinkley projects to serve as the backup to E.J. Henderson at middle linebacker, a position where the Vikings were very thin least season when Henderson was lost early in the year because of a foot injury. - by The Sports Xchange
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