Fom now till the 2024 NFL Draft, we’ll scout and create profiles for as many prospects as attainable, inspecting their strengths, weaknesses, and what they’ll convey to an NFL franchise. These gamers might be potential top-10 picks, all the way in which all the way down to Day 3 picks, and precedence undrafted free brokers. Immediately, a scouting report on Utah S Cole Bishop.
#8 COLE BISHOP/S UTAH – 6020, 206 POUNDS. (SENIOR))
NFL Mix
MEASUREMENTS
Participant
Ht/Wt
Hand Measurement
Arm Size
Wingspan
Cole Bishop
6020/206
9 1/2″
29 3/4″
73″
40-Yard Sprint
10-Yard Sprint
Quick Shuttle
3-Cone
4.45
1.52
N/A
8.01
Broad Leap
Vertical
Bench Press
10’4″
39″
N/A
THE GOOD
– Three-year starter with numerous various taking part in expertise at each security and slot positions– Performs with loads of vitality, by no means having to fret about effort– Has excellent short-area burst to shut on receivers and runners– Comes downhill rapidly and hits with ferocity– Can match tight ends and slot receivers nicely in zone or man protection– In a position to spy on cell quarterbacks and defend the flat nicely concurrently– Exhibits nice consciousness and anticipation with play recognition– Marked enchancment with making performs on the ball within the air or to pressure fumbles– Very efficient blitzer off the sting or disguising as a nook– Good lengthy velocity to vertically carry receivers as a deep security if want be– Robust tackler who drives by guys
THE BAD
– Restricted to being a powerful security and slot CB due to lack of sideline-to-sideline velocity– Tends to be overaggressive and over-pursues on operating performs– Has issue readjusting at occasions with speedier operating backs to take correct angles– Too many missed or damaged tackles by diving at legs– Doesn’t have ultimate size to high-point balls and make deflections of taller receivers– Exhibits stiffness in his means to flip his hips and switch with receivers fluidly– Struggles to shed blocks from tight ends and OL close to the road of scrimmage– Tries to learn QBs at occasions, and it causes him to go away his zone of protection
BIO
– 1,726 snaps whole in 3 seasons (708 SS, 428 Slot CB, 400 FS) based on PFF– Began 29 video games and performed in 35 video games whole for Utah College– 197 whole tackles, 30 missed tackles, 21.5 TFLs, 12 PDs, 3 INTs, 7 TDs allowed, seven penalties, 7.5 sacks, 4 FFs in 3 years of play– 2024 Reese’s Senior Bowl invitee– 2023 Faculty Soccer Community All-America Second Workforce– 2023 Jim Thorpe Award Semifinalist– Three-time Pac-12 All-Convention (2023 Second Workforce; 2021 and ’22 Honorable Point out)– Three-star recruit by 247sports and Rivals out of Starr’s Mill HS– First-team all-state as a junior, all-region and all-county as a sophomore– Invited to Blue-Gray All-American Bowl– 101 tackles, 9 move breakups and 5 interceptions his junior season, additionally recording 5 rushes for 145 yards and a landing as a senior.
TAPE BREAKDOWN
Cole Bishop is a 3-year starter for an excellent Utah protection that possesses excellent measurement for a security and plenty of expertise taking part in a number of positions. You possibly can inform rapidly that he’s very clever on the sphere and is ready to diagnose performs fairly rapidly, whether or not he’s down close to the road of scrimmage or as a field security in the course of the sphere. He can play all around the subject, however he’s finest when he’s allowed to learn and react in brief areas of house. He has the physicality to be a field participant and the motion expertise to cowl in house. His effort and motor are at all times evident and when watching him, the man appeared to be across the soccer very often. This man appears to be like to essentially lay the wooden on receivers if they arrive into his space, and he actually hustles to get there in a rush. Caleb Williams from USC threw up a balloon for his receiver after being pressured, and sadly for him, he obtained to fulfill Bishop coming downhill in a rush.
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— Jim Hester (@Jh86Guy) March 8, 2024
Bishop has wonderful anticipation and diagnoses performs rapidly. His urgency when coming downhill is so sudden and he tackles together with his total physique more often than not, actually driving by guys. There are positively occasions when his reckless deserted nature will get the perfect of him, and he tries to ankle deal with too rapidly or throws his physique round, permitting for damaged tackles. There have been points with this after I watched him in opposition to the 2022 Florida staff with Anthony Richardson on it, which in and of itself creates its personal units of issues. Bishop obtained run over on one play after which had issue shedding a deal with as nicely.
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— Jim Hester (@Jh86Guy) March 8, 2024
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— Jim Hester (@Jh86Guy) March 8, 2024
Nonetheless, he’s an excellent tackler who is aware of the way to take the proper angles to get to runners and receivers. One space that’s evident he has issue attending to is bottom operating performs due to the time it takes his lengthy velocity to get going, being a brief strider. Blitzing from a number of spots is one thing he’s very adept at. His snap rely timing and anticipation are impeccable when he’s requested to go after the quarterback. These subsequent two clips spotlight his means to anticipate, react, and end the job when in run-defense conditions. He can present persistence after which shut rapidly on a runner, or he can use his instincts to utterly disrupt the road of scrimmage, screaming after a man to hit them within the backfield.
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— Jim Hester (@Jh86Guy) March 8, 2024
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— Jim Hester (@Jh86Guy) March 8, 2024
When his protection expertise, this previous yr, Bishop actually made loads of enhancements to his sport. Transferring extra so to the robust security place allowed his soccer intelligence and instincts to shine. He was good in zone protection and is aware of the way to determine the routes the quarterback is concentrating on to set off downhill rapidly on receivers. This enables him to get his palms on the ball and, on the very least, hardly ever permits yards after the catch. He’s finest when he may be close to the road of scrimmage and never be tasked with masking loads of grass.
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— Jim Hester (@Jh86Guy) March 8, 2024
Bishop can play in off-man protection and is aware of the way to mirror receivers nicely. He lacks the vary to play sideline-to-sideline however can carry guys vertically if he’s already on the again finish. His backpedal is somewhat stiff, and he has some issue turning his hips fluidly to reflect quick routes. Bishop can match up in opposition to tight ends and spot-drop in zone protection, however the lack of arm size could also be regarding for him getting boxed out by greater guys. He additionally tends to learn the quarterback’s eyes an excessive amount of, which causes him to take a seat beneath for too lengthy, as this clip exhibits.
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— Jim Hester (@Jh86Guy) March 8, 2024
Bishop has good, not nice, ball expertise. He can leap vertically nicely, however his lack of arm size can present up in contested catch conditions. This exhibits up in his interception in opposition to Oregon St., the place you actually see the athletic means to make an important play on the ball.
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— Jim Hester (@Jh86Guy) March 8, 2024
CONCLUSION
Bishop has loads of fascinating traits that groups search for in a powerful security, and he actually examined nicely on the NFL mix to hopefully quell among the long-speed considerations previous to that. He has good measurables for the place, may be very instinctual and sensible, and performs with a ferocity that groups will love. His means to match up with tight ends and slot receivers is interesting, nevertheless it’s his means to learn and react that can permit him to carve out a job within the NFL for years to come back. He’s a troublesome child that provides you with every thing he has, and the nice factor is, he’s very younger and there’s loads of room nonetheless to develop for him. He might want to clear up his tackling method, enhance his turning on routes, and be stiff in his backpedal with a purpose to sustain with sooner guys on the subsequent stage.
I see loads of Talanoa Hufanga when he was popping out of USC in Cole Bishop. Each guys are heat-seeking missiles on the sphere who’re sensible, powerful safeties who can play a number of positions. You don’t suppose they need to be capable of make as many performs on the ball as they do, however their instincts, intelligence, and physicality permit them to make up for athletic limitations. I believe that Bishop might be the same sort of participant. An above common starter that’s reliable to convey protection and a bodily nature to a staff. Pittsburgh simply so occurs to be available in the market for a participant like him, nevertheless that can all depend upon what they do in a deep free company security class as nicely. Bishop is likely one of the finest robust safeties on this draft and the upside for continued progress in areas of enchancment is there as nicely.
Projection: Late Day 2Depot Draft Grade: 8.1 – Rotational Participant (third Spherical)Video games Watched: at Oregon St. (2023), at USC (2023) at Florida (2022), at Washington St. (2022)
