Ross
Cockrell.
Ross
Cockrell.
Duke· 6'0"· 191 lb· 4.56s 40
Cover-3 match with single-high safety and heavy reliance on versatile defensive backs in both run support and coverage.
Immediate special teams contributor with a ceiling as a reliable nickel safety or sub-package deep half defender.
Man-heavy schemes that frequently ask safeties to cover slot receivers one-on-one without safety help.
A willing tackler with good agility for his size, best utilized in schemes that maximize his coverage versatility from depth rather than on isolated island coverage.
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
- 4.56sp50
- Vertical
- 36.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 122inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.28sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.32sp50
- Bench
- 10repp50
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Duke | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | Duke | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | Duke | 13 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | Duke | 13 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 49 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 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.