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Stanford.
R.j.
Stanford.
Utah
Scheme fit: Stanford's best fit is in a quarters or Cover-3 matching defense, where his anticipation and ball-hawking skills can be fully utilized within a disciplined system.
As a rookie, Stanford projects as a quality special teams member and a depth safety with potential to develop into a starting free safety by his second or third season.
Stanford would be a poor fit in a Cover 2 heavy scheme that asks safeties to play a deep half without much read-and-react responsibility, diminishing his playmaking instincts.
Stanford possesses the versatility and football IQ to contribute quickly on special teams while growing into a significant role within a zone-heavy secondary.
Relative Athletic Score (Kent Lee Platte) benchmarks combine/pro-day numbers against every measured prospect at the position since 1987. 10.00 is elite; 5.00 is average.
— No athletic data recorded
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Utah | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.