All right, our number five safety in college football is the reigning Nagurski Award winner,

which is given to the best defensive player in college football.

So you might hear that and say, how on earth is this guy number five in your rankings?

We'll get into some of his negatives a little bit later,

Dahl.

But it is Xavier Watts out of Notre Dame.

What made him the defensive player of the year

in college football last year?

And what is some of the strengths of his game? Well it was the obvious one is that he led the country and interceptions with seven right?

He just he's a ball hawk and from a free from a free safety spot like Notre Dame

at every other position has guys who are really

fundamentally sound, they're great tacklers, they're shut down corners, they do all those things.

Savior Watts is the one guy that forced to turnovers, right? Seven interceptions,

three pass breakups last year, a force fumble to go with it against USC.

He's just, he's like just one of those classic fine sea ball get ball free safeties, right can play single high he can play too high he's really aggressive in the run in the run game maybe sometimes too aggressive but you can't question the attitude and the effort

and the bawhalking skills that he brings

to Notre Dame's secondary, right?

And if they're going to force turnovers

instead of just being like a really good kind of grind you down defense it's because of

Xavier Watts so he has a very very important role in this defense but that's what

makes him so good is his athleticism is 98.6 PFF gas score, obviously incredibly high,

and his ball skills, right?

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