"He’s one of the best – you know, Smith, Ed Reed, [Troy] Polamalu. Those guys are, I’d say, among the best. He’s certainly right there. He’s a hard guy to read. He does an excellent job of timing his movement based on either the quarterback’s cadence, the offensive formation, motion, the play clock, all those combination of things. He does an excellent job of using some or all of them to put the offense in a difficult position to account for them or to not account for them when he’s blitzing and so forth. He’s really good."

“I think he internalizes a bunch of stuff. He understands it, and he absorbs it. He doesn’t talk a lot, but he talks when he needs to. He’s a guy where it’s like, ‘I’m a good football player, and I don’t have to tell you I’m good.’ He just goes out there and does his job.”

“I've had some good safeties in my time, but this kid is instinctive, tough, physical. Great kid, smart, a great leader." 

“He’s not a very vocal guy, and he doesn’t say a whole lot. He’s a leader in terms of going out and doing what you’re supposed to do, knowing how you’re supposed to do it. I’ve never heard him complain in my life. In terms of being a consummate professional, he’s the way you embody that, and Darren Woodson was the exact same way.”

“The heart and soul of the defense”