Tariq Woolen is quickly proving that the NFL got too cute with his draft evaluation. _RyanFowler_ on why Woolen is so unique and is having so much early success. Seahawks | SeahawksNation | GoHawks
A former wideout, Woolen has made it look easy through the first month of his NFL tenure.
In a day in age where athletic profiles often trump technicality—where teams will opt to bring a player in and coach them up to produce a refined product—you’d be hard-pressed to find a rookie corner in football with the production ceiling as high as Woolen’s early in the 2022 campaign. A tick over 200 pounds, the UTSA product is a wiry, aggressive corner whose vertical prowess on the perimeter presents an intimidating matchup for smaller wideouts.
While many past NFL ceiling defenders have made the switch from receiver to corner, Woolen’s technical prowess and continued improvement in his mirroring ability are years ahead of where guys like Trevon Diggs out of Alabama and Quinton Dunbar out of Florida were out of college—both of whom were four-star wideouts at the prep level before making the jump to the defensive side of the ball in the SEC. What stands out for Woolen is his lower-half explosion and fluidity.
Although many apparently found flaws in Woolen’s game that led him to slip to day three back in April, his game is vastly unique in the fact that his herculean testing numbers aren’t just percentiles to ‘wow’ at on a spreadsheet—he can flat out play football. Still early in the fall with lots of snaps to be played, early signs from Woolen have sent a clear message to executives across the league who got cute when it came to his evaluation.
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