2019 NFL Combine: 10 players who bombed

Joejuan Williams, CB, Vanderbilt

There are always defensive back prospects that get scouts drooling when watching them on tape. They see these big, relatively fast guys and they project them to the NFL as the type of press corner who can be left on an island with anyone. Unforuntately there are very few of those guys and the ones typically billed as that later in the process are more developmental players who have traits. That is the case for Vanderbilt’s Joejuan Williams.

Heralded by NFL Draft Twitter as a “slept on” prospect, Williams could build off that momentum with a strong showing in Indiainapolis. Instead he came out looking slow and not agile enough to be a shadow corner at the next level.

Williams posted a 4.73 40 yard dash. That was tied for the eighth worse of any defensive back in the class. For a corner who projected as a man-to-man press corner, that is not fast enough. He would truly beating the odds if he becomes a top two corner for a team running that slow.

It was not all bad as Williams did post a favorable 17 reps on the bench press. For a man who has great length with 32.5 inch arms, that is a great number. Williams did look a little better on the field during the defensive back drills.

Scouts love his tape, but corner is a position that lives and dies by the stop watch. With Williams posting a slow 40 and some unimpressive agility drills, it could tank his stock. At 6-foot-3, he will find a home in the NFL. There just are not that many players that big who have played corner at a high level. However it looks like he is much more of a project with limited athletic upside than previously expected.