Jack Bergkamp

Kyle Shanahan on Jordan Watkins building his confidence and taking advantage of opportunities: “The more you play, the more success you have, the more confidence you get. I think Jordan’s worked through all this and it’s hard to just get playing time on our team. You gotta beat people out, go ahead of them, and just cause your capable, doesn’t mean that you get it, like you gotta beat guys out and he’s been close to that but just not quite as consistent as a couple guys in front of him. Got his opportunity with injuries and just the way he attacked it in practice. Some guys when they don’t get their opportunities , they start to make excuses, blame people, listen to social media too much and they don’t work quite the same and then their opportunity comes and their actually worse than what they were 2 weeks before that. Credit to Jordan. He wasn’t like that at all, which takes a mentally strong kid. He kept grinding, working. He kept asking what he can do more to get out there, and it was ‘You just gotta be ready when your times there. You didn’t get ahead of those guys in training camp, but that time will come, and hopefully your ready when it comes, and he’s been more than ready and he’s been able to string a few weeks and he should have more confidence cause he’s earned it.”