2021 NFL Draft DB Prospect Rankings: 5 corners could go in Round 1, but uncertainty around who will be selected 1st (Football 4/22)
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We've made it to the secondary and our last group of prospect position rankings. Will Brinson welcomes on Josh Edwards to break down his top 10 defensive backs, combining both cornerbacks and safeties onto the same list. It's a list that includes several players with famous football-playing fathers including #10 Asante Samuel Jr, #5 Jaycee Horn and #1 Patrick Surtain II. Trevon Moehrig out of TCU is the highest-rated safety according to Josh, but the Top 10 is dominated by CBs. We know a slew of them will be selected in the first round, but there remains uncertainty about which one will be first off the board...
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| 0:44.4 | Welcome to the Big Six Podcast, CBS Sports Daily NFL Podcast. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Wilbrenson. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm your host, and we are going to do some defensive |
| 0:53.3 | back rankings in this episode. |
| 0:56.6 | We are wrapping up our full positional breakdown for the entire draft. |
| 1:02.1 | If you look in the feed running backs, wide receivers, quarterbacks. |
| 1:04.8 | This is Thursday, by the way. |
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