The Dallas Cowboys\u2019 cornerback room looked like swiss cheese with all the holes it had. DaRon Bland remains a solid piece when healthy, but the other young CBs\u2014Shavon Revel Jr. and Caelen Carson\u2014have yet to take a step up to the podium. Bringing in veteran Cobie Durant on a one-year deal to patch some holes helps but the real help will come with drafting a top prospect at the CB position.<\/p>\n
Mansoor Delane has coverage instincts that seem almost pre-cognitive. He reads route concepts with the ease of a veteran, often arriving at the catch point before the receiver realizes the ball is even there.<\/p>\n
At 6-foot, 190 pound, 4.44 40-yard dash speed, he has the tools to ply his trade. In over 350 pass coverage snaps, he only allowed 13 receptions for 147 yards. Most impressively, he didn\u2019t allow a single passing touchdown all season and held opponents to a 37.1 percent completion rate.<\/p>\n
Delane could use some strength and weight training, to stay to top of his game on go routes and bumps. But he\u2019s the CB to start first on the outside, then anywhere they need him.<\/p>\n
His comps are Kool-Aid-McKinstry, Trent McDuffie, and Devon Witherspoon.<\/p>\n
He posted zero penalties showing the discipline to compete without drawing flags.<\/p>\n
The other needy position on the Cowboys roster is EDGE. The fact that Averill Reese, David Bailey and Rueben Bain had already been drafted, opened the door to draft the best CB of the class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys\u2019 cornerback room looked like swiss cheese with all the holes it had. DaRon Bland remains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,448,5105,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-853909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallascowboys","12":"tag-detroit-lions-draft","13":"tag-detroit-lions-mock-draft","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116348435434967869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853909","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=853909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}