Tracking the Preaux Career of Ike Taylor

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Ike Taylor (6-foot-1, 191 pounds) is in the midst of a breakout year in just his third NFL season. The one-time project from Louisiana Lafayette is now the premier cornerback for a Steelers team that is a victory shy of qualifying for the postseason. Taylor has shadowed some of the top wideouts in the league this season, notably Cincinnati's Chad Johnson, who called Taylor one of the best he's seen. Johnson got stifled by Taylor in the first Steelers-Bengals game, finishing with four catches for 94 yards, including a meaningless 47-yarder in the waning moments of a 27-13 Steelers win. The flamboyant wideout was held to five catches for 54 yards in the second go-round, a 38-31 Bengals win at Heinz Field. Taylor has just one interception this season, but he's been around the ball more than any other Steelers defender, evidenced by his 24 pass breakups. But what makes Taylor just as valuable to the Steelers is his ability to come up and play the run. He ranks third on the team with 92 tackles and has recorded eight or more in six games this season. The rest of the story

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It is hard to believe we lost to Monroe with Tillman and Taylor playing the defensive backs. I can remember that stupid pass at Cajun Field like it was yesterday. The one we should have knocked down to end the series but instead fell into the hands of a Monrovian for a first down, which led to their win.

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How good was Ike Taylor in coverage? I can't exactly know for sure, since we rarely see coverage downfield and most of Manning's passes were so far off the mark that we never even got to see the players for more than an instant as the camera whizzed by, but the evidence suggests that he was quite good. There were exactly two passes completed against him all game... Harrison's first catch (and Manning's first completion) on a great one-handed grab coming across the middle, and a quick slant by Harrison on Indy's final drive. He was barely even tested, apart from that. Despite that, he was second on the team in tackles because he was consistently coming up to tackle other guys' receivers and on screens and runs. He did make a weird jam-and-release to apparently no one on Harrison's big-gainer after the interception overturn, though I have no idea if that was his fault, someone else's blown coverage, or just a giant hole in the zone. The source of the story

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two passes




If they stay away the boy can play

[CAJUNJUDO]

Makes up a little for when Ike got burned right out of the gate on Indy's first play of the game on Monday night (Nov. 28)

Marvin Harrison, 80 Yd pass from Peyton Manning, 13:16. Drive: 1 play, 80 yards in 0:10.

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Ike was about as good against manning as Tillman was bad against Delhomme..

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CB IKE TAYLOR led team with 25 pass break-ups in 2005 & compiled most tackles by Steelers DB (96) since ROD WOODSON (100) in 1992

In two playoff games, team has 9 sacks (5 at IND, 4 at CIN).

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We should have known all along. Ike Taylor will be starting at left cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in today's AFC Championship Game at Denver. He's one step shy of joining Jake Delhomme, Brandon Stokley, Brian Mitchell, Randy McClanahan and Rafael Septien as former Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns playing in the Super Bowl. Delhomme could make a return visit to the big game - his second in three seasons - if the Carolina Panthers upend the Seahawks in Seattle this evening. Taylor and the Steelers knocked out Stokley's Indianapolis Colts last weekend, while Delhomme ousted the Bears and former Cajun Charles Tillman. It was Tillman who showed Taylor how to play defense when they were UL seniors in 2002. We could say we saw it coming from the moment Taylor set foot on the UL campus in 1999, that he was a can't-miss member of Jerry Baldwin's first recruiting class, but we'd be lying. The rest of the story Bruce Brown bbrown@theadvertiser.com after the rest of the story read Ike's website FaceMeIke.com

[Turbine]

I suspect the guy calling the advertiser was none other than Ike Taylor.

When I first met Ike he went by the name Ivan and he was the most confident, self assured -shall I say- cocky, arrogent individual I have ever met. He was always bragging even in practice everthing was a competition. Ike thrived on outdoing the next person. In short Ivan was Ike's best sales person.

Once you met him you would never forget him.

He will tell you that Charles Tillman helped get him noticed, but I also believe it's this 24/7 selling of Ike by Ivan that got him really noticed by the NFL scouts. And no one (ok few) is/are more thrilled at his post UL success than I.

Gaux™ Ike

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Ike has an interception in the AFC title game.

Gaux™ Ike