Let Me Tell You Something: Is Bullard About to Be the Most Important Piece of Gannon's Defense?
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Big Sal is standing in his living room in Peshtigo — thirty-one degrees, windows frosted over — and he is FIRED UP about a twenty-two-year-old safety from Milledgeville, Georgia. Pack Nation, it is time to talk about Javon Bullard. And Sal is not here to whisper.
- Bullard's rocky rookie year gets the full autopsy: yanked between free safety and slot corner, he became the first player since 2007 to log 250+ snaps at BOTH positions in a single season — and he still made 85 tackles. The ceiling was buried under the confusion.
- Year two tells a completely different story: once Hafley locked Bullard into the slot, his PFF coverage grade jumped from 49 to 63.7 — and in his final five games, he ranked inside the top three slot defenders in the entire league alongside Kyle Hamilton and Derwin James.
- Sal breaks down Jonathan Gannon's three-safety penny front and explains exactly why Bullard — with his Georgia background, hybrid college role, and two years of forced versatility — is the Budda Baker piece Gannon has been building toward his whole career.
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you something, Pack Nation, I am standing in my living room. It is 31 degrees outside in Pestigo. Windows are frosted over and I am fired up about a 22 year old safety from Millageville, |
| 0:26.6 | Georgia. |
| 0:27.6 | This is my life now and I would not change it for anything. |
| 0:31.6 | Pack Nation, we need to talk about Javan Bullard. |
| 0:36.6 | Now look, I am going to be honest with you because that is what I do. |
| 0:41.3 | When Goody took Bullard in the second round, 58 overall in the 2024 draft, I slotted them in next to McKinney, and I did not think much past that. |
| 0:52.3 | Second round safety from Georgia. |
| 0:54.8 | Fine, good, moving on. |
| 0:57.5 | But by October, a fourth round pick picked 53 spots after him, |
| 1:03.4 | had taken over the starting safety spot. |
| 1:05.8 | The conversation around Bullard had gone quiet. |
| 1:09.7 | And that is a problem for a second round pick. |
| 1:13.5 | Year one was rough, and I say that with love. The kid played 85 tackles in 15 games, |
| 1:21.3 | which sounds great, right? That sounds like a starter. He was starting, but Pac Nation Nation, the coaching staff, had him at free safety, |
| 1:30.0 | then kicked him to slop corner by week five, then back to do them both at the same time. |
| 1:36.6 | Back and forth, back and forth. And I get it. They were figuring it out. But here is what that |
| 1:43.5 | did to a rookie. |
| 1:45.0 | Javon Bullard became the first player in the entire NFL since 2007 to play over 250 snaps |
| 1:55.0 | at both slot corner and free safety in the same season. |
| 2:00.0 | Both roles same year. You know what that |
| 2:03.7 | ass of a 21-year-old just trying to learn an NFL defense? Do you understand me? That is like |
| 2:10.9 | asking a guy to run two different job sites at once and then wondering why neither one is finished on schedule. |
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