Who knows if this is true or not, but a talked-about draft preview with anonymous quotes from scouts says Karl Joseph “knocked out I think eight people in his career.” That’s not a funny thing, we’re not here to point at Marquise Goodwin and it’s feels weird that knockouts were presented as some sort of metric knowing what we know about the brain these days, but we can agree on this: Karl Joseph’s tackles were frequently more events than they were statistics.

This is from the fourth game of his first season, and though he’d leveled people before that, this was the first “Oh, mercy!” hit on his list.

It’s easy to forget today as we recall all the plays Joseph made as the bandit, but he started out as a free safety, and he made up for what he didn’t know about playing in the defensive backfield at this level by running downhill and flattening foes.