Longtime LSU trainer Jack Marucci tends to say he “just had a sense' Justin Jefferson would be an NFL unicorn. That's not the entire truth. That feeling was backed by cutting-edge biometric data, and it's altered how he feels about athlete evaluation.
As Marucci began to see the scores, he was taken aback. Good cornerbacks and receivers performed better than most. The more he thought about why — they have to quickly make decisions and improvise when things don’t go as planned — the more he understood about players who had long piqued his interest.developed from three-star prospects into NFL mainstays. Neither possessed explosive athleticism, but both seemed to haveBy the time Jefferson arrived on campus, Marucci was sold on S2’s value.
Marucci was willing to try to find a way to obtain data, even if LSU staffers looked at him funny. He was alerted to a company called Tobii Pro, which develops hardware for eye tracking. Through Tobii Pro, Marucci met Mike Mann, a former volleyball player and volunteer assistant at the University of Florida whose fascination with eye tracking spurred him to launch his own consulting firm.
Elite athletes, Ally said, tend to have minimal degrees of eye dominance, meaning both eyes absorb information for the brain to process. Jefferson, though, is a unicorn — nearly one of one. Marucci said Jefferson has the ability to change his eye dominance depending on the type and direction of the route he is running.In June 2021, LSU elevated Marucci to director of performance innovation, a position believed to be the first of its kind in college athletics.
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