Xavier
Crawford.
Xavier
Crawford.
Central Michigan· 5'11"· 187 lb· 4.48s 40
Xavier Crawford is best suited to a Cover-2 or Cover-3 zone heavy defense that prioritizes athletic zone defenders with good play recognition skills for underneath coverage, rather than a man-heavy approach where his agility might be exposed.
As a Year 1 player, Crawford could contribute as a backup boundary corner or be deployed as a nickel CB in zone-heavy packages, with a ceiling as a reliable starting zone corner in a scheme that values his instincts and ball skills.
A man-coverage intensive scheme with a heavy emphasis on mirroring athletic receivers would highlight his struggles with sustained agility and quick-twitch movements, making him a poor fit.
Xavier Crawford projects as a depth piece with potential to develop into a starting zone corner in a scheme that can mask his athletic limitations in man-to-man situations.
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
- 4.48sp50
- Vertical
- 37.5inp50
- Broad jump
- —in
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- 11repp50
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Oregon State | — | 70 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 2017 | Oregon State | — | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018 | Central Michigan | — | 24 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| Career | — | — | 111 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 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.