Of all his players, Mike Zimmer is most pleased with the progress slot corner Mackensie Alexander has made from his first year to fourth. “If you had asked me who has turned the corner as far as coaching and believing in the system, I think Mackensie would be the No. 1 guy from where he started," Zimmer said. "Which wasn’t the best. But he’s done an excellent job. He’s taken extra reps, I’ve seen him coaching the young guys. It’s way different. I’m proud of him.” Asked whether he would have believed himself in 2016 if he foreshadowed seeing this version of Alexander, Zimmer said, "probably no way. Probably no way. But we had a lot of conversations when he was younger. I kind of told him there were two paths to take and he started to take the other one.”