Question about Jabrill Peppers' career

Peppers was a Heisman finalist and a 1st round pick.   He gave his all for Michigan and was a very special player.   You do not know more than the coaches, in fact you don’t appear to know more than much of anybody around here. 

I agree. He always struck me as a great offensive player. I would have liked to have seen that full time. He was great on defense. Maybe he would have been better with the ball in his hand. We'll never know. 

Edit: Not sure why everybody is posting Peppers' defensive accomplishments. I dont see where the OP said Peppers was bad. I remember the MSU game when Jedd threw him out there at receiver. Dantonio used two consecutive timeouts over it. Peppers was over at the sidelines laughing and messing with him. And the next play Peppers took it like 40 yards down to the 1 despite everybody in the place knowing he was getting the ball. (4:21 LINK) He was special. It's okay to wonder what that alternate universe looked like. I believe Peppers himself preferred to play D. This isn't an indictment of the staff or anybody else.

Let's just say Jabril made other teams really think about how they were going to play around him. In some ways, that stunted his ability to really shine as we had hoped he would. Unfortunately, we can't change the past. He made his mark here and now we look forward to others to make their mark. 

So, you invite a discussion and then get upset with opinions that differ from your own, then turn it from a “What if” musing to a Peppers bashing. 

I think it's a fair question asked in a fair way, even if it's somewhat redundant. One thing I identified during his playing days, he was electric with the ball in his hands, even with less than stellar stats. If he was part of the offense as part of the overall scheme, I think his offensive starts would have been better. When he was in, defenses keyed on him and he had everyone gunning for him... Makes a big difference.

RB's generally have a short shelf life. 

at the end of the day his Michigan career will always be disappointing in my view.

Also, not a great look, above. Your first post and you want to criticize one of Michigan's best players of the decade? 

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Would Peppers have wanted to play RB at UM?  Charles Woodson didn't.

If Peppers was amenable to playing RB, why would that have been the best position for him?  It wasn't for Desmond Howard.

Does good performance in the return game mean Woodson and Howard should have been playing at RB?  That's rather doubtful.

As for production comparisons involving Deveon Smith--I'm thinking that Smith, being bigger, was probably the better choice for running behind a sub-par O-line.

Probably would have been a good RB but the most disappointing part of his time was that there were no wrinkles when he was in on offense in the OSU game in 2016.  Not his fault but the staff could have been more creative than Jabrill keepers each time. 

Counterpoint: Karan Higdon would've been more effective as a viper.

Peppers closed in on the opposing players with the ball so fast. He was great at making open field tackles. He is not being used appropriately on defense in the NFL in my opinion. 

Disappointment ?  Dude was awesome at UM - look at the games stats, then PFF stats, then S&P stats.  He was an f-ing Heisman finalist !   Shit post.  

Opportunity cost. If you played Peppers as a full-time RB, he's going to be too tired/beat up to contribute significantly on defense. Even if Peppers had proved to be a top-class RB, our 2016 stable of Smith-Evans-Higdon-Isaac was more than capable, and I doubt Peppers would have been significantly more productive than them. Compare that to defense, where his versatility and playmaking ability would not have been easily replaced. Put simply, we would have lost more on defense than we would have gained on offense - and that's assuming that Peppers would have been great at RB.

For the record, I'm not convinced he would have been. His best plays were typically the unconventional ones (jet sweeps, wildcat, wr screens, etc) where he could quickly get in space. It's purely speculative to say he would have replicated that success on traditional handoffs.

Peppers is the man who is good at everything but great at nothing

Peppers would make a fantastic running back.  But to disparage his accomplishments on defense seems ignorant at best.  

Peppers had 1 year with don brown and his defense. He was the most important player on said defense. They were able to do what they wanted mainly because of his presence. Yes he would’ve been great at RB but he just would’ve piled up stats and not necessarily had the same impact overall. 

Hudson is great but had a crazy stat game because Minn didn’t block him. Peppers was ALWAYS planned for. Hudson had the luxury of learning the position for an entire year before he played it. 

Sure it would’ve been nice if he had more flashy stats but this team hasn’t really forced that many with don brown. They aren’t on the field enough. 

His career, like Gary, will always get overlooked by those looking at just numbers. Go Blue. 

I remember listening to Dan Dierdorf during and after a game. I know it was 2015 and I thought it was against Penn State, but Pepper’s rushing numbers were not so great in that game so idk. Anyway, he was convinced that Peppers was going to be moved to full time rb for next year. I just remember him saying they absolutely had to make that move and felt it was surely coming.

Jabrill Peppers was better than a few people seem to remember.

The only player to be an All American at four spots (Linebacker,Defensive Back.All purpose and punt returner)  either a 1st.2nd.3rd team selection in these four areas Wont happen again .....

Most individual awards in BIG10 history ...

At Michigan
• 2016 Paul Hornung Award winner as the nation's most versatile player
• 2016 Lott IMPACT Trophy winner
• 2016 Heisman Trophy finalist; placed fifth in the final balloting
• Has appeared in 27 games, making 25 starts on defense
• Has also contributed on special teams and offense
• 2016 Consensus All-American
• 2015 Sporting News All-America second team
• 2015 CBS Sports All-America second team
• First player in Big Ten history to win three individual awards (2016, Nagurski-Woodson Defensive Player of the Year, Butkus-Fitzgerald Linebacker of the Year and Rodgers-Dwight Return Specialist of the Year)
• Big Ten's Thompson-Randle El Freshman of the Year in 2015
• 2016 Jim Thorpe Award Semifinalist
• 2015-16 Paul Hornung Award Finalist
• 2015 All-Big Ten first team (coaches and media)
• 2015 All-Big Ten second team return specialist (coaches)
• Three-time All-Big Ten Honoree; 2015-16 first team (coaches and media); 2015 honorable mention return specialist (media) rd rd

I agree 100% he should have been reggie bush.

I think he preferred CB coming out of high school and Michigan was desperate at the time and probably told him he could play whatever he wanted.