Vs Series: Jessie Bates vs Reggie Nelson

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Nelson and it's not even close. He could ballhawk with the best of them and also absolutely lay down massive bone crushing hits with ease. He could rush the passer a bit and could make a tackle for loss behind the line of scrimmage before dropping back to being a ballhawk. He cleanly hit people so hard that refs flagged them because they just LOOKED that violent.

Can only imagine what his career would have been like if he didn't get his first 3 seasons wasted in Jacksonville where they had 3 different DCs and even tried to move him to Cornerback.

EDIT: Added bonus, he absolutely had Ben's number. In 10 career starts as a Bengal vs the Steelers? 6 INT.