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2025 Guide: What Ourlads’ NFL Scouting Services said about JAHDAE BARRON:
Texas | Hometown: Austin, TX | HT: 5107 | WT: 194 | 40 time: 4.39 | Hand: 0912 | Arm: 2934 | Wing: 7334
Three year starter. First team All-SEC, first team consensus All-America and winner of the Jim Thorpe award for the best defensive back in the country. Good size and strength with a physical demeanor. Versatile defensive back who played safety, corner, and nickel. Primarily a nickel until his senior year where he switched to an outside corner. Was mostly a boundary corner with some nickel reps situationally. Played a lot of quarters with some cover three and quarter, quarter, half. Had significant reps as a hard corner. Limited man concepts but was often matched up in quarters. In off coverage shows a smooth backpedal transitioning into a lateral run. Mixes in a lateral shuffle and press and bail. Changes speeds well to maintain cushion. Also used to press and flashes a stiff two or off-hand jam on outside releases. Excellent zone awareness versus route combinations. Adept at the palms concept reading outside to inside receivers. Quickly makes the pattern read adjustment matching receiver based on the route. Has vision to easily make cover four switches. Closes voids in zones extremely well and reads the quarterback delivery key. As a hard corner gets under the corner route and plays up to the flat. Excellent ball skills with a knack for finding the throwing lane, quickly breaking and getting to the catch point. Incredible production making plays on the ball. As a nickel was solid playing underneath zones and could match a slot up the field. Can be physical attacking blockers with strong hands. Makes a lot of big hits tackling but has a bad habit of not always gathering and wrapping. Has had some misses as a result. Some hip tightness creates separation in man coverage and recovery speed is suspect. Versatility makes him a fit for most NFL defenses.
2024 Stats: 67 T, 2.5 TFL, 1 sack, 11 PBU, 2 QBH, 5 INT. OSR:6/25. VJ-35. Draft projection: 1st round