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With the college football season winding down and the NFL Combine just around the corner, the 2025 NFL Draft is coming into focus. With that in mind, former NFL defensive back Brock Vereen, who is now a current studio commentator on CBS Sports Network’s “That Other Pregame Show,” offered his thoughts on some of the top defensive backs expected to hear their names called in April.
One prospect who has created his own narratives this season has been Colorado’s Travis Hunter Jr., who plays both wide receiver and cornerback for the Buffaloes.
He is so much fun to watch: how smooth he is, he doesn’t make a lot of sharp movements. If you are picturing a cornerback backpedaling and they plant that foot, drive that arm and they break out, it is sharp, it is tense, it is sudden. If they just put an [isolation] cam on everything that he does, it is almost like he is at a walkthrough. It is so effortless for him.
In zone situations, he has so much confidence in route concepts from playing wide receiver and understanding what offenses are trying to do. He knows where the ball is going to be. Even when the ball is not thrown his way, against Utah, he had that one interception off of a deflection. He had no business being over there. He understands, ‘My guy ran this route, my guy is over there. He is not going to throw to my guy.’ There are so many risks that he takes that really aren’t risks because he knows what is going to happen.
He high-points the football very well because he plays wide receiver. Think about how many jump balls he comes down with as a receiver in the end zone on a fade or on the sideline, you can translate that ability to him as a cornerback. He can high-point the football better than any receiver that he has covered. He is never going to lose in those situations. Long arms. He is always swiping for the football.
The biggest thing is that he is never panicky. He is as smooth in…
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Author : Josh Edwards
Publish date : 2024-12-27 17:20:00
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