Redskins: 3 safety prospects to watch at the 2019 NFL Combine

With Alabama’s Deionte Thompson slated to skip the combine, due to recent surgery, one candidate for the top safety spot has been eliminated. Now it’s a two-man race between Florida’s Chauncey Gardner-Johnson and Delaware’s Nasir Adderley.

Both players are very good athletes, but their talents have yet to be quantified, so the NFL Combine could be big for teams looking to find separation between the two of them. There are unique traits that only one of each possesses. You’ll see what makes Gardner-Johnson special on the next slide, but with Adderley, the Delaware product, it is undoubtedly the way he mends his physical prowess into the intricacies of the game.

Adderley currently measures in at 5-foot-11, 200, but a combine measurement that says otherwise, and puts him at 6-foot-0, could be a game changer. One inch doesn’t make a difference when you see his range, however. He has very good range as a safety in deep coverage, and his aggression makes him a force to be reckoned with.

While Adderley can do more to fine tune some parts of his game, and while there will surely be a difference in his range when he’s defending faster throws by NFL quarterbacks, and not FCS quarterbacks, Adderley’s shown he has immense potential, and at the combine, he can confirm that. He’ll shed some light on if his speed is real speed, or if it was distorted by a lesser caliber of players around him.