Now that Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner broke out big in his rookie season for the New York Jets, and Tariq Woolen came out of nowhere to ball out in his rookie campaign for the Seattle Seahawks, the NFL — copycat league that it is — will be all over the next big, aggressive cornerback with speed and movement skills who can come in and make a professional defense better.
Fortunately for coaches and evaluators at this level, there are some interesting prospects in the 2023 draft class who might be able to match what Gardner and Woolen did in 2022. Penn State’s Joey Porter Jr., with an unofficial pre-combine 6-foot-2, 198-pound frame, has showed all those qualities, and he’s big and salty enough to make receivers think twice about their varied approaches. Georgia’s Kelee Ringo, despite a few lapses in coverage in 2022, will have NFL teams looking at his 6-foot-2, 220-pound frame, and thinking, well, there’s the kind of raw-clay prospect on whom we can take a chance.
