{"id":881498,"date":"2026-05-03T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/881498\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T17:00:55","slug":"roderick-hood-giants-john-harbaugh-will-get-the-best-out-of-colton-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/881498\/","title":{"rendered":"Roderick Hood: Giants’ John Harbaugh will ‘get the best’ out of Colton Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, New York Giants<\/a> fans have learned the backstory behind the team’s second-round pick, Tennessee cornerback Colton Hood.<\/p>\n

Hood comes in NFL-ready, having been trained by the likes of former All-Pro Patrick Peterson<\/a> and his uncle Roderick, who once played for current Giants<\/a> head coach John Harbaugh.<\/p>\n

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Roderick Hood believes Harbaugh will get the best of his nephew, just as he did for him back when they were in Philadelphia with the Eagles in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

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“Harbs has an uncanny knack for being super tough and then pulling back the reins,” Roderick told the New York Post<\/a>. “He will kick your butt, but then he will love on you. He’d have a situation where he would be really, really tough on me and then he would bring me to his office and say, ‘I think you are a heck of a player, but I need you to be better.’<\/p>\n

“You could respect that he’s just a hard-nosed player who cares about you but is not going to let you slack. He won me over from that. I respect the honesty and that he demanded greatness from me, so I’m super excited for Colton because I know that Harbs is going to get the best out of him.”<\/p>\n

Colton Hood has modeled his game after some of the NFL’s top corners, some of whom Uncle Roderick personally mentored after retiring from the NFL. He has a leg up because of that and will also not suffer culture shock under Harbaugh.<\/p>\n

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“My uncle always told me how good of a person [Harbaugh] was, but also how hard of a coach he was and how good of a coach he was. Definitely somebody I want to be coached by and somebody I want to play for,” Colton said, per The Post.<\/p>\n

Roderick is confident Colton will be a success at the pro level, but still has room to grow. He has all the tools and the temperament.<\/p>\n

“There’s nothing he can’t do,” Roderick said. “Pressing and playing man-to-man is the toughest thing as a cornerback. I think he can do [zone] just as well. A lot of times, you see switch routes that a lot of teams pass off, but Colton wasn’t asked to pass those off because Tennessee<\/a> had a young secondary. I think he can go in and play any kind of defense you ask him to. He definitely has to get better, though. It’s always about evolving.”<\/p>\n

That improvement now falls onto the shoulders of Harbaugh and his staff.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: Roderick Hood: Giants’ John Harbaugh will ‘get the best’ out of Colton Hood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By now, New York Giants fans have learned the backstory behind the team’s second-round pick, Tennessee cornerback Colton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[14026,7,519,2909,1917,56,2321,2469,6,10229,16562,119093,526],"class_list":["post-881498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-colton","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-john-harbaugh","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-patrick-peterson","tag-roderick","tag-roderick-hood","tag-tennessee"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116511723235769215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881498","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=881498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}