{"id":114649,"date":"2025-06-08T22:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/114649\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T22:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:23:12","slug":"ole-miss-cb-trey-amos-already-a-problem-for-nfl-receivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/114649\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss CB Trey Amos already a problem for NFL receivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now-former Ole Miss cornerback Trey Amos<\/a> has made a strong first impression with the Washington Commanders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Commanders in April selected Amos in the second round (No. 61 overall) of the 2025 NFL Draft. Bryan Manning of Commanders Wire<\/a> wrote Saturday Amos \u2018is making significant strides\u2019 in off-season practices and in place of absent veteran Kendall Fuller.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn one of his more impressive plays, he managed to stay upright after his feet got tangled with (wide receiver) Michael Gallup and got under a tipped pass for an interception on the second play of the drill,\u201d Zach Selby of the team\u2019s official site wrote last week. \u201cHe nearly got a second one later in the day while working against Luke McCaffrey and kept up with Deebo Samuel when lined up against him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Washington considered drafting Amos in the first round. However, the Commanders were able to get him later after some teams backed off in the pre-draft process due to a back injury, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n

Amos joined a cornerback room featuring returnees Mike Sainristil, Marshon Lattimore and Noah Igbinoghene, as well as free-agent addition Jonathan Jones. Lattimore was acquired a year ago in a midseason trade. He skipped the voluntary portion of the off-season program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amos has the been the primary beneficiary of the previously-occupied reps.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to see a lot of being physical at the line of scrimmage against wide receivers,\u201d Amos said before the draft, when asked the type of player an NFL team would be getting. \u201cBeing a technician. I feel like I\u2019m a box of all traits. I can play man, I can play zone and do it all. Just going out there and showing what I can do. Be on the lookout.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"OleOle Miss CB Trey Amos (Photo credit: USA Today Images)<\/p>\n

His last, and most productive, was at Ole Miss in 2024. He was named both an All-American and All-SEC.<\/p>\n

Amos started all 13 games and finished with 50 tackles, three interceptions, 13 pass break-ups, three tackles for loss and a forced fumble. He also played previously at Louisiana and Alabama.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shows a lot,\u201d Amos said of his three-school college journey. \u201cMental toughness. It was a long journey. It taught me patience, and at the end, I just wanted to have fun my last year. But I learned so much through UL, \u2018Bama and Ole Miss. All three schools built me. I found a way. I knew my time was coming and proceeded to do what I have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bleacher Report\u2019s Brent Sobleski named Amos as\u00a0one of eight early steals<\/a>\u00a0from this year\u2019s rookie class.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really look up to Pat Surtain,\u201d Amos said. Surtain was the 2024 AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year. \u201cI really love how smooth he is, rarely gets beat. Always on top and looking smooth. He\u2019s very efficient. I try to model my game as him and put everything in my toolbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s different, but I just do my best to be a great technician at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Amos is one of nine defensive starters Ole Miss is replacing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Returners TJ Banks and Cedrick Beavers were the first-team corners at the end of spring practices. <\/p>\n

However, Ole Miss has since added South Alabama\u2019s Ricky Fletcher and Clemson\u2019s Tavoy Feagin. The Rebels also brought in transfer defensive backs Jaylon Braxton (Arkansas), Sage Ryan (LSU), Wydett Williams (ULM), Kapena Gushiken (Washington State) and Antonio Kite (Auburn).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was definitely an eye-opening thing for me,\u201d Braxton told the Ole Miss Spirit in February<\/a> of the Rebels\u2019 success with transfers. Ole Miss put together its third straight Top 3 portal class. \u201cI was actually with Trey on my (official visit) here. He was telling me this is a great place to be and if you\u2019re looking to do one-and-one, you see how I did it. You can do it here, too. That\u2019s my plan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now-former Ole Miss cornerback Trey Amos has made a strong first impression with the Washington Commanders.\u00a0 The Commanders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,6,5357,7207,25561,899,1788,28557,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-114649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-ole-miss-football","12":"tag-ole-miss-rebels","13":"tag-ole-miss-rebels-football","14":"tag-ole-miss","15":"tag-regwall","16":"tag-trey-amos-20-catholic","17":"tag-washington","18":"tag-washington-commanders","19":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114650087709242315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}