Battle is going to put that theory to the test, as he made four starts as a freshman back in 2019 before playing full-time the past three seasons. It offers one of the best groups of slot cornerbacks in recent memory along with some size-speed freaks and versatile safeties. But both before and after that play, Williams has been one of the best in the NFL. Joseph rarely pops off the tape as a high-end athlete. Heres how we stack this years safety class: Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via USA TODAY Sports, Sign up for the The Draft Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. He can get a little wild as a tackler, although when he does catch a ball carrier cleanly, they stop in their tracks. Something of a journeyman at the position, Tashaun Gipson Sr. is with his fourth team in the NFL, but his first year in Chicago was one of the best of his career and saw him post grades of at least 69.9 in every facet of play PFF measures. Bates tallied a ridiculous 12 pass breakups to go along with three interceptions on the season despite playing the bulk of his snaps in the middle of the field, where those plays are hard to come by. Between being a former first-round pick, used in a debatable way early in his career and then used as a makeweight in the trade for Odell Beckham Jr., it would be easy to dismiss Jabrill Peppers as a bust, but he is far from a bad player. Kyle Hamilton can do it all -- he has the perfect size and agility for the position combined with nice coverage skills, hard tackling, and Jaquan Brisker is a great athlete with an elite combination of speed, size, tackling, and natural coverage ability to be a pro-bowl level sa Hill has played all over the secondary for the Wolverines, and this versatility is always in demand in the NFL especially when paired with Aspiring college or profootball journalist? Jevon Holland, Oregon (third round) 5. Clark is a player the Baltimore Ravens love to deploy all over the formation and can use him in pretty much every way, including rushing the passer. Now he is a year removed from that injury, and a return to that PFF coverage grade of 78.0 or better this season would see Thornhill likely even climb higher on this list. Safety Rankings: The 32 best safeties entering the 2021 NFL season. That snap breakdown is precisely what most safeties at the next level will be asked to do. John Johnson III backed up his fine play in Los Angeles with a solid year in Cleveland. Joseph is able to read route combinations and anticipate breaks in his sleep. NFL Draft Buzz is on the lookout for new contributors who would like a chance showcase their perspectives on the NFL draft. In a four-year career, he has played just over 2,000 snaps, which is essentially half of the available playing time. His overall PFF grade dropped, but he was still above average in every facet of play that PFF measures. Fast forward a year and Carter is on the doorstep of making good on that claim. You'll now receive the top The Draft Wire stories each day directly in your inbox. Tier 2 are the players projected to be taken Day 2. As part of Athlon Sports' 2020 NFL Draft Guide, we have ranked each position, including 45 total safeties. 2021 NFL Draft Safety Rankings 1. Jessie Bates III is only a year removed from a 90.1 PFF grade and a truly elite season for the Bengals. Clark is good enough at everything to be the kind of versatility player the Ravens covet in their secondary. Here are the top safety prospects. Mathieu hasnt been at his best for a few years now, but his alignment versatility makes him incredibly valuable to any defense. Last year, his coverage and run-defense grades came in at 74.0 or better. Reed Blankenship | Middle Tennessee State, 2023 NFL mock draft: New 1st-round projections with trades, 2023 NFL mock draft: Pre-combine 3-round forecast with trades, comp picks, 2023 NFL mock draft: New 3-round projections with trades, comp picks, 2023 NFL mock draft: 3-round projections after Senior Bowl week, 2023 NFL mock draft: 2-round projections with big trades, and a new No. Similar to his twin brother Chase, Sydney can flat-out fly. Trenton Simpson and Drew Sanders will almost certainly be the first two linebackers off the board. section: | slug: nfl-draft-2023-jalen-carter-will-anderson-jr-atop-pre-combine-list-of-best-defensive-prospects-by-position | sport: football | route: article_single_special | Another strong candidate to hear his name called on Day Three of the draft, Harris was one His ability to line up in any safety position within any coverage shell allowed the rest of the pieces to fall into place around him. Updated safety rankings for the 2021 NFL draft. Kyzir White, S, West Virginia: Round 2, 6. 2023 NFL Draft Free Safety Rankings John Vogel October 31, 2022 in 2023 Rankings - 6 Minutes 1. As we look ahead to the next big mile marker in the predraft process, the NFL Scouting Combine, heres an updated look at how we rank the top safety prospects in this years draft: Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff, King asks Duke and Duchess of Sussex to move out of Frogmore so Prince Andrew can move in, Biden Mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene With 1 Simple Hand Gesture, A Nebraska high-school cheerleader competed on her own after the rest of her squad quit. For the purpose of the NFL Draft Bible big board, we have done our best to separate prospects into free safety and strong safety designations. Felix Anudike-Uzomah has 19.5 sacks over the past two years, but more impressive is the ball production. The 2021 NFL draft is just a couple of months away, so its time to update our prospect rankings for every position group in this years class. Hes one of the best true backend players in the draft class. Trevon Moehrig, TCU (second round) 3. Lets dive into PFF's top 32 safeties entering the 2021 NFL season. Kyzir White, S, West Virginia: Round 2, 6. If an NFL team's scheme has a defined box safety role, theres not a better player to fill it in the draft class than Skinner. Maye earned a career-high PFF grade of 82.9 last season, also notching career highs in snaps from the slot and in the box. Adrian Amos has become one of the most underrated safeties in the league. A few years ago, this meant, Strong safety used to be a coveted specialty role in the NFL, encompassing those who played more like auxiliary linebackers and patrolled the box, defending the run and covering short zones underneath. * No. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports. The obvious name missing is Penn State's Joey Porter Jr. 1 overall PFF grade at the position and is the only safety who has put up a 90.0-plus grade over that time. https://draftwire.usatoday.com/lists/2022-nfl-draft-rankings-safety-kyle-hamilton-dax-hill-jaquan-brisker-lewis-cine/, 12. Our exclusive database, featuring the most in-depth collection of NFL player performance data. Heres how we stack this years safety class: 1. Height Feet 6-1. Projected Round (2019): 1-2. That all gives Robinson one of the higher floors at the safety position in the class. Ward struggled early in his NFL career despite entering the league with the prestige of a first-round pick, but the last two seasons have seen him at his best. Thats because, at 205 pounds, hes more than willing to mix it up. Ward is coming off a season in which he earned better-than-average PFF grades across every facet of play. He has lined up in the slot on more than 200 snaps in a season for the past seven years and should get the chance to replace Malcolm Jenkins in that matchup role within New Orleans' defense this year. Still, at his age, it feels wise to err on the side of caution. While lacking splash plays, he is consistently in the right place at the right time and grades very well in all facets of the game. Although Justin Reid is coming off some ugly grading, we saw earlier in his career what he is capable of in a defense that doesnt shed all of its talent around him. Dax Hill | Michigan. S. All Scouts Average Overall Rank 42.9. Richie Grant, UCF (first round) 2. From a testing perspective, theres a chance he puts up the most lackluster numbers at the combine of any player on this list. The worry is what happens when he cant play around the line of scrimmage. Luke Easterling. Please check your email for a confirmation. Smith may be declining from his elite best (his past two seasons have earned PFF grades of 74.3 and 77.9, down from 90.0-plus), but he still ranked 12th at the position in 2021 for a defense that lost a lot of talent. See his 2022 and 2023 Rankings as well! It is difficult to find quality interior pass rushers so that makes a player with Carter's skill set even more valuable. Marcus Maye was the deep-lying free safety who allowed Jamal Adams to be the do-it-all star in the Jets secondary. 2022 NFL Draft Safety Rankings Contact/Follow @ColFootballNews & @PeteFiutak. Justin Reid, S, Stanford: Round 2, 5. Hes been instinctual ever since he stepped on the field at Alabama for 290 snaps as a true freshman. This most recent season saw him post career-low marks in overall grade (65.8) and coverage grade (61.5), which drags him outside of the top 10, such is the strength of competition. Even the players on this list need to have more strings to their bow than simply stuffing the run from heavy formations. He has three 80.0-plus PFF run-defense grades in his first five seasons, and his versatility allows him to move around the defense, playing plenty as a free safety and in the slot. Antonio Johnson, Texas A&M, Jr, 6-3, 190 3. Since entering the league, Jeremy Chinn may have had the most unique deployment of any safety, to the point that he breaks a lot of position designations and really is operating in a one-man role. Hes missed 14.9% of his tackle attempts in his career and will have some ugly ones when asked to wrap up from a standstill. Player However, he's much Joseph had an incredible 2021 season where he put numbers placing at the elite category of all DB's in college football. Heres our updated list of this years top safety prospects: Sign up for the The Draft Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. The 2023 NFL Draft safety class should provide a deep talent pool throughout Day 2 of the draft. Thankfully, that couldnt be further from the truth with Branch. He also forced two fumbles, making five in total over the last two seasons. But the ones that do often turn into quality starters in the NFL. Techie with an interesting slant on player evaluation? He is coming off a season with a career-high 90.4 overall PFF grade and a 90.9 coverage grade. The now fifth-year safety missed just two tackles from 67 attempts in 2020. Reid was dragged down by the unit as a whole in 2020, and his coverage grade of 67.2 was the lowest of his career, but his previous two seasons had been flirting with an 80.0 grade, and he has increased the number of defensive stops he has made each season. Budda Baker is a heat-seeking missile in the Arizona defense, amassing 160 defensive stops in just five seasons of play. College Senior Penn State. 2021 NFL Draft: Top Safeties Oregon defensive back Jevon Holland (8) had nine interceptions in two seasons at Eugene before opting out in 2020. Christian Gonzalez will certainly check the height, weight and speed boxes, and the same is true of Kelee Ringo. He made a lot of spectacular plays as a rookie yet was also on the wrong end of some big gains for the offense. Send feedback and thoughts to @ShanePHallam. Armani Watts, S, Texas A&M: Round Some of these players could fit more than one of these buckets, and in fact have throughout their careers, but this is where they sit right now based on the past couple of seasons. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: nfl | pageType: stories | Broad: 9-8. Its a rough NFL Draft year for several positions, but safety is sneaky-good. Teams looking to add some size, speed, physicality, and athleticism to their secondary will have their share of options at the safety He earned PFF grades in 2020 that were impressive in all facets of play we measure and even had eight total pressures from 31 snaps on the blitz as a rusher. This site is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with these schools or teams. Thats a tremendous rate for a player often working out in space. 2018 NFL Draft Safety Rankings - DraftUtopia.com S Rankings 2017 NFL Safety Rankings Projected Rounds: 1. Hyde is often put in a good position by the defensive scheme in Buffalo, but he responds by making the plays he is given the opportunity to make. Over the past two seasons, Martin has missed all of seven tackles on 129 attempts. The 2023 Senior Bowl is officially in the books, and after another revelatory week of action in Mobile, its time to update our prospect rankings for each position group in the 2023 NFL draft class. Often forgotten men of the team, safeties can make a major difference to the quality of a defense and a secondary. Marcus Williams signed a big free agent deal this offseason and has been incredibly consistent in the NFL at a position where consistently high-end play is hard to come by. He carries one of the highest floors in the class. Sanders, an Alabama transfer, has spot edge rusher potential in addition to having the size necessary to hold up at the point of attack. Thats all well and good, but it's fairly meaningless if you cant cover. That marked his third career 80.0-plus coverage grade, and it was also the third time he was aligned at free safety for more than 600 snaps over a season. Bates recorded the highest overall PFF grade among safeties last season at 90.1 he was one of two players with a PFF coverage grade north of 90.0. Winfield is a playmaker and exceptionally good in coverage, where his ability to read the play quickly really comes to the fore. Hes been starting since he was a true freshman at South Carolina in 2019 and now has 2,909 career snaps to his name. What was concerning about last season was how badly he was exposed in coverage within the Seahawks defense. Tyree Wilson is a long, explosive athlete who has shown growth over the past year, but still has a ways to go before he repays the top-five draft capital likely to be used on him in April. By: CollegeFootballNews.com. The biggest thing preventing him from being the consensus best safety in the NFL is health. Moehrig has some of the best ball production youll see from a safety prospect, as he led all FBS safeties in pass breakups in each of the past two seasons. At 6-foot-2, 202 pounds, Moehrig has ideal size and physicality for the position, as well. 2. Elijah Molden, Washington Molden is the gold standard in the slot for this class. You'll now receive the top The Draft Wire stories each day directly in your inbox. Jackson had one of the best seasons we have ever seen at the safety position back in 2018, earning an overall PFF grade of 93.2 and a coverage grade of 94.7, but since Vic Fangio left town to coach the Broncos, Jacksons elite play has evaporated and he has posted seasons of 67.0 and 59.5 in terms of PFF grade. His 26 coverage stops over that span were the fourth most among Power Five defensive backs, as his 91 targets went for only 368 yards (4.0 yards per target). He h Nick Cross is an intriguing prospect who is an elite athlete with outstanding speed and explosiveness. Similarly, Justin Simmons 90.7 PFF grade from 2019 represents his career-high by more than 10 grading points. Tier 3 are the Round 4-5 caliber players. Those players still exist, but the defense most in vogue right now is the Vic Fangio tree of two-high safety looks, where free safeties are occupying either one half of the field or even just a quarter with various pattern-match responsibilities. He has a thinner build that brings questions about his sustainability in the run game, but there is no doubt about his immediate upside as a pass rusher. Please check your email for a confirmation. You wont find many true freshman starters on defense at Alabama for head coach Nick Saban. Coverage is king in todays NFL, and the safety position is pivoting toward players who excel deep downfield. Experienced Jammie Robinson comes in at No. Brown may very well have the best movement skills of any safety in the draft class. Similar to his twin brother Chase, Sydney can flat-out fly. Hes reportedly reached over 22 mph on the GPS readings, and if you watch his tape from any point this past season, its very believable. Gipson missed just seven tackles from 80 attempts in 2020. Dugger faced 84 targets in coverage over his first two seasons in the league, allowing 58 catches for 9.3 yards per reception. 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Even with that tremendous speed, though, it may surprise you to know that Brown was almost entirely a. safety this past fall (only 60 of his 742 snaps came deep). Branch missed only four of his 173 career tackle attempts. Which prospects should boost their draft stock at the NFL Scouting Combine? Hamsah Nasirildeen, Florida State (third round) 6. Its why I think he can be so skilled in a coverage-first role in a two-high scheme. Unlock all tools and content including Player Grades, Fantasy, NFL Draft, Premium Stats, Greenline and DFS. Savage is moving in the right direction but is still a little more flash than substance. April 14, 2021 10:50 am ET. NFL Draft Profile: Rhys Byrns, Punter, Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns NFL Draft Profile: Robert Carter, Safety, West Georgia Wolves NFL Draft Profile: Gurvan Hall Jr, Safety, Utah State Aggies Lets take a look at the future enforcers in the NFL that have entered their name into the 2021 draft. His in-season tape is clear evidence, but you can also watch the practice/training camp footage that emerges every year of James going one on one with, Tyrann Mathieu is such a matchup weapon that for several years of his career he was a pure slot cornerback more than he was a safety. Draft Wire editor Luke Easterling updates his safety rankings for the 2023 NFL draft following Senior Bowl week 2023 NFL draft: Post-Senior Bowl safety rankings Teams His biggest weakness has been a lack of plays on the football, with just two picks and 25 pass breakups across seven years of play. He has converted three of his five interceptions into touchdowns over the past three seasons. Find out where your favorite Position stacks up against the 2023 class and view expert mock drafts. Kevin Byard has been a prototypical free safety since he was a draft prospect. Weight Lbs 199lbs. There were similar concerns with Jaycee Horn coming out of South Carolina: handsy downfield in coverage and a high missed tackle rate. Big 12 Picks, Lines For Saturday, February 25, College Basketball Predictions, Lines, How To Watch: Sunday, February 26, NCAA Tournament Bracket Projections, 68 Team Predictions, Bubble Teams February 27, AP Poll Top 25 Projection College Basketball Rankings Prediction Week 17, Coaches Poll Top 25 Projection College Basketball Rankings Prediction Week 17, Coaches Poll Top 25 College Basketball Rankings Week 17, AP Poll Top 25 College Basketball Rankings Week 17. Harrisons career wasnt stellar in Jacksonville, but the second he was traded to Cleveland, he began to look like a different player, and that was within a secondary that wasnt loaded with quality. Here are the top 10 safeties in this year's draft class, per PFF's NFL Draft Guide. Jamal Adams was thought to be this matchup weapon on defense, a player capable of lining up anywhere and doing his job well, But in Seattle, he has been struggling badly in any role other than one close to the line of scrimmage as more of a classic strong safety. 40 Time: 4.45. Hes elite when on the field, but he needs to stay healthy. Simpson will be one of the top performers at the NFL combine this week. And while some positions in the league are extremely thin, highlighted by just a few stars but lacking any real quality beyond that, the safety position seems to be in excellent health. He collected 16 stops in the run game this past fall and proved to have one of the more versatile skill sets in the draft class. Another rookie who was far from overawed by the step up to the NFL, Antoine Winfield Jr. was a significant role player in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl campaign. Hand: 9.50. That size does show up at points as a tackler, though. Just behind his teammate is Poyer, a similarly versatile safety who allows the Bills to run any kind of coverage shell they want to. From the college perspective, here are the best safety prospects in the 2022 NFL Draft. His in-season tape is clear evidence, but you can also watch the practice/training camp footage that emerges every year of James going one on one with Keenan Allen one of the best route-runners in the game and covering him like a blanket. Willis has back-to-back impressive seasons for the Colts since coming into the league as a fourth-round pick. Alabama's Brian Branch takes top spot: The slot position has evolved into an integral part of an NFL defense a role Branch can handle with ease. I agree to receive the "Pick Six Newsletter" and marketing communications, updates, special offers (including partner offers), and other information from CBS Sports and the Paramount family of companies. We've compared players 40 times and weight and charted them on the scatter chart below. Thats the kind of defender you want around the football. the ones that do often turn into quality starters in the NFL. WebGet the latest NFL Draft prospect rankings from CBS Sports. Four! The 2023 NFL Draft safety class should provide a deep talent pool throughout Day 2 of the draft. Battle is sort of a jack-of-all-trades, but a master of none. Some team sources said they graded Davis in the fourth round of the 2020 NFL Draft. 1, 2023 NFL mock draft: New 2-round projections for Senior Bowl week, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Thats Branchs game. PFF's Big Board for the 2023 NFL Draft offers three-year player grades, combine measurables, position rankings, and in-depth player analysis for all of the top draft prospects. He was one of the most reliable slot defenders in the country, especially in tracking down ball carriers. Over the last two seasons, Simmons has the No. DeShon Elliott, S, Texas: Round 1, 3. Over the past two seasons, he has 177 pass-rushing snaps on the blitz and has racked up 27 total pressures on those rushes. Both players have shown elite upside and play, but they havent been able to maintain that peak for as long as some others. And then his relatively long wingspan for a safety affords him leeway as a tackler. Noah Sewell is the younger brother of Lions offensive tackle Penei Sewell. She said the support she got from other teams was 'overwhelming. Brisker is one spot behind Michigan s Dax Hill. Ranking safeties in todays NFL is becoming increasingly complex because of defensive evolutions and the various roles the position encompasses. Rankings the 2023 NFL Draft safety prospects with all of their scouting reports linked to their draft profile. Theres nobody better at this than Derwin James. 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Pick Six Newsletter Crafted By The Best NFL Experts Get the day's big stories + fun stuff you love like mock drafts, picks and power rankings. Chinn lined up all over the formation and was more of a matchup weapon than just a safety he played at least 20 snaps at free safety, in the box, covering the slot, lined up as a wide cornerback covering tight ends or backs and even stacked up at the line of scrimmage looking to threaten as part of the pressure package. SAN DIEGO COUNTY CREDIT UNION HOLIDAY BOWL. Each can line up anywhere they are needed within the scheme and playing next to one another is clearly a force multiplier for their success. Harris hit free agency coming off a season in which he graded at just 63.6 in coverage, and it meant he could only manage a cheap, one-year contract with Philadelphia. Having a slot player who can fill in in run support with authority makes defensive coordinators far more comfortable taking their safeties out of the box. Before that, Harris generated 10 picks and an overall PFF grade of 90.6 over the previous two seasons combined. Tier 1 consists of the players expected to be taken in the first round. Now that he has an opportunity to play within a better defense again, we should see a rebound performance in 2022. At almost 34 years old, McCourty is coming off his lowest-graded season since 2011, when he was still playing cornerback for the Patriots. Thornhills second season was something of a letdown, given how good he was in his first, but a torn ACL in Week 17 of that debut season probably impacted his play in Year 2. Our exclusive database, featuring the most in-depth collection of NCAA player performance data. Armani Watts, S, Texas A&M: Round Thats because, at 205 pounds, hes more than willing to mix it up. Tyree Gillespie, Missouri. 2018 NFL Draft Safety Rankings - DraftUtopia.com S Rankings 2017 NFL Safety Rankings Projected Rounds: 1. Smiths rookie season was in 2012, and he has never had a poor healthy season since that point the kind of consistent excellence that Smith has been able to maintain for the Vikings is freakish at the safety position. But when the team traded Adams to Seattle, Maye was able to step into that role and show that he can also do a bit of everything well. There's Bryan Cook was a distinctly unremarkable playing heading into 2021 and looked like a probable UDFA prospect, however, following an Cam Taylor Britt is a good NFL prospect who really elevated his stock with an impressive combine and senior bowl performance. Its the 2022 NFL Drafts most underappreciated group at maybe the most A seventh-round rookie, Kamren Curl was one of the steals of the draft a year ago, one of the standout rookies of the season. Most importantly, though, Branch finishes plays. 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