Senior Bowl Spotlight – Aaron Colvin, CB Oklahoma – 2014 NFL Draft
Alex Dunlap, RosterWatch.com

Aaron Colvin, CB Oklahoma

Height: 6’0″
Weight: 195 pounds
40 yard dash: 4.45-4.55 (estimated/reports)
NFL Comparison: Antoine Cason
Player Notes: From the Oklahoma Athletic Department – Semifinalist for the Thorpe Award … All-Big 12 First Team by coaches, AP and San Antonio Express-News … All-Big 12 Second Team by Phil Steele and Athlon Sports … played in 11 of 12 games, missing the Iowa State (11/16) and Tulsa (9/14) contests due to injury

Scouting Notes:

Aaron Colvin will frustrate a receiver, but he might frustrate a quarterback more. Especially
when that quarterback has no time to sit in a pocket and deliver a football.

Colvin is sticky through the first part of stems on the route tree, and that’s all he has to be until further notice when the defensive line in front of him can get pressure on the quarterback. He’s a read-and-react corner. Scouts will like that he’s high-cut and plays with a high butt. He keeps chest lowered extending distance of backpedal steps in
man coverage.

Fellow Senior-Bowler Mike Davis, Jaxon Shipley and current Buffalo Bills special teams whiz Marquise Goodwin couldn’t get off Colvin early in routes through their entire careers at Texas save a Goodwin double-move or two in garbage time. Colvin locked down the right side of the defensive secondary for Oklahoma.

Colvin would not move from side-to-side in “star” coverage, and is generally not thought of as strictly a boundary or field-type corner because his forte is not in any aspect of making plays on the ball as much it is on making plays at the body, staying patient and falling into the receiver’s hip pocket in trail techniques.

Colvin is not the most physical corner in run support, but the fact is, you generally don’t hear a peep about him (or the player he is covering through games), which goes to show that Oklahoma HC Bob Stoops might be onto something when he says Colvin is “truly one of the best defensive backs we’ve ever had here.”