No one wants to feel old.
If that sounds like you, dear reader, then you might not want to read this list of the top cornerback prospects in the 2021 NFL draft. Why not, you ask? Because a number of these players have NFL ties, either through siblings or — in most cases — through their fathers. That’s right, you’ve reached that point in life where some of the players you grew up watching are now watching their own children embark on NFL journeys.
Nothing ages a fan more than that.
But these athletes offer more than a last name, they offer the potential to become lockdown cornerbacks at the next level. Here are the top 11 cornerbacks in the 2021 NFL draft. For the rest of the draft class, you can check out the handy Touchdown Wire Scouting Hub: Touchdown Wire’s top prospects in the 2021 NFL draft class
Note: The percentiles in parentheses listed next to pro day data are compared to all historical athletic testing (combine and pro day) at the respective position of the player. Kudos to Pro Football Focus, and their Pro Day Schedule and Results Tracker, for this. As there was no scouting combine in 2021, and pro day schedules vary, we may not have all testing information for all prospects at publication time. For offensive tackles whose positional specificity is in question, we will include percentiles for both positions per PFF’s data.
