Ron
Brooks.
Ron
Brooks.
LSU· 5'10"· 190 lb· 4.37s 40
Ron Brooks fits best in a Cover-2 or Cover-3 zone-heavy scheme that prioritizes speed and coverage versatility from the safety position.
As a rookie, capable of contributing immediately as a special teams gunner and nickel corner. His ceiling is a starting boundary cornerback due to his recovery speed.
He would be a poor fit for a man-heavy defense that frequently isolates cornerbacks on an island against larger, more physical receivers.
His elite speed and coverage instincts make him a valuable asset in schemes that leverage athletic defensive backs in zone coverages and require depth at multiple positions.
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.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.37sp50
- Vertical
- 38inp50
- Broad jump
- 120inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- 12repp50
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | LSU | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | LSU | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 27 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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.