Jalen Pitre is an anomaly.
It’s difficult to discuss the Baylor defensive back because we don’t see many players like him. A ball-hawking, hard hitting safety from the smallest school in the nation’s most defensively-ridiculed conference? Pitre was the Big 12’s only defensive 2021 Associated Press All-American on defense and he earned it.
Pitre had an excellent senior season that included 75 total tackles, three sacks, five forced turnovers and seven passes defended over the course of 14 games in addition to an astonishing 18.5 tackles for loss. The fifth-year senior has an absolute knack for making plays behind the line of scrimmage and has shown off incredible versatility during his tenure at Baylor, making quite the intriguing and difficult to evaluate draft prospect for NFL scouts.
