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Welcome to Houston Kamari Lassiter

His 6.62 3 cone was fastest among CBs at the combine. 6.82 was second fastest.

Inside/outside versatility. Two year starter and team captain for Georgia means he’ll be ready to play day one. I suspect he’ll be tested more with Stingley on the opposite end of the field. I expect he’ll rise to the occasion!
 
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Initially, Dane Brugler of The Athletic and others reported via NFL scouts in attendance that Lassiter's 40 times clocked in at 4.63 and 4.61, a far cry from what Yields ultimately related.

If the first reported numbers had been accurate, it could have been a significant setback for Lassiter ahead of April's NFL Draft. While no one would confuse him for the fastest cornerback in the prospect pool, speed was considered an asset to his skillset.
 
2024 NFL Draft: Kamari Lassiter Scouting Report
Lassiter’s Strengths

  • He is very fluid and quick action in and out of his breaks. Had the fastest three-cone time at the combine with 6.62 seconds.
  • Natural mover light on his toes in space. It helps him in coverage and tackling. Great backpedal and break ability.
  • It comes from Georgia Kirby Smart’s Nick Saban tree, where everyone takes pride in stopping the run. Fearless as he’s Not afraid to get in the mud and offer support.
  • Good tackler in space and on blitzes in backfield vs offensive players of all sizes.
  • Great vision, play awareness, and football IQ in zone coverage. He keeps his head on a swivel and passes out his man with the ability to come back into his zone. He makes spectacular plays on the football in the zone to help teammates.
  • Day one starter, especially in the slot. He can help an NFL team right now with over 45 games of experience and 30 starts.
  • He eliminates the quick game and screens with physical play and loves to hit.
Lassiter’s Weakness

  • He’s an undersized corner without elite speed. He will get bullied at NFL guarding bigger outside Wide Receivers.
  • Best to be your slot corner or number two corner guarding smaller wide receivers.
  • He struggles to locate the ball downfield at times. He only had one interception in his entire career.
  • He is too grabby with Wide Receivers, especially downfield. Can be too physical with wide receivers trying to reroute or find the ball.
  • How fast is Kamari Lassiter? Did not run the 40-yard dash at the combine. He has moments downfield of panicking trying to keep up with wide receivers.
Projection: Late Second to Early Third Round Pick

NFL Comparison: Byron Murphy

Best Fits: Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, and the Houston Texans.

Bottom Line

Kamari Lassiter is a feisty, twitchy corner who plays every down of football like it’s his last. He’s physical despite his size, and football intelligence is off the charts. Lassiter is a day-one starter due to his ability to be sticky in man coverage, excellent in zone coverage, and fluid movements. My NFL comparison was Minnesota Viking Byron Murphy. Murphy is not the fastest corner, but he plays an aggressive style of football and is very fluid. Expect Lassiter to be picked on day two of the NFL draft and have a promising career.
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Kamari Lassiter 2024 Draft Profile

Kamari Lassiter is a 5’11, 186-pound corner with lightning-quick hips, and great football intelligence.
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Lassiter from 2022 fall camp to the beginning the 2023 season was dealing with a Lisfranc foot injury which did not require surgery. But the ligaments are stretched (stretched ligaments seldom go back to original length) and more easily re-injure in the future. Residual after such an injury translates to problems with pushoff and explosiveness...........a criticism of his play.

Another thing I'll be interested in is how/where he will be used. Kirby Smart always played his CBs on one side or the other. His side was the left. That is the side that Stingley usually played.
 
This pick is an A-. Talk about discovering underrated star players. Although he had 1 interception in 3 years at Georgia. He didn’t allow 1 td in his whole college career. He has quick reaction time and tackles well. Can break up passes and lock down. Plays with that dawg mentality. Reminds me a little of Jimmy Ward with more potential. I don’t think the colts or jags are going to like this pick. It simply doesn’t matter who you added in f.a or drafted if there matched up with Kamari. .40 time was a lil slow and in his highlights, I caught one play where he isn’t looking back. The problem with drafting slower guys to me is what happens when we’re in the conference championship and kamari gets matched up with chiefs worthy? We have to play one dimensional schemes if that’s the case and Mahomes or any good qb with fast receivers will pick us apart
 
Expert Commentary: Pick No. 42 — Kamari Lassiter
  • Draft Grade: A

  • Pre-Draft Rank: 44

  • School: Georgia

  • Height: 6' 0"

  • Weight: 186
Just like McKinstry in the last pick, Lassiter isn’t a burner. However, he’s a physical, talented cornerback that has the ability to tackle in the open field and come in as a Day 1 starter at nickel for the Texans. This is a great pick.
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Top 10 cornerbacks of the 2024 NFL Draft:

Closing out week two of our positional draft rankings, we talked about the wide receivers on Wednesday, so now it’s time to discuss the guys who are going to cover them in the pros. Personally, I d…
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A more comprehensive writeup of Lassiter:

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7. Kamari Lassiter, Georgia​

6’0”, 185 pounds; JR



A four-star recruit in 2021, Lassiter appeared in all 15 games as a true freshman (158 total snaps), recording 11 tackles, one interception and three pass break-ups. The following season he started all 15 contests, recording five TFLs and four PBUs. 2023 was when he started to receive recognition nationally, putting up nearly identical numbers outside of doubling his PBUs, which earned him second-team All-SEC accolades.



Man-coverage:

+ This guy has been a true lockdown boundary corner over the past two years, only allowing 12(!) catches for 128 yards and one touchdown on 34 targets (35.3% completion rate) and 310 snaps in man-coverage

+ Has well-coordinated, quiet feet at the line and easy gas to run with guys vertically, not look like he’s straining

+ Keeps his eyes locked on the hips of his man and anticipates routes from trail-position in impressive fashion for a young corner

+ Has some highly appealing reps on tape vs. fade routes, where he stays on top and then battles for the ball with the target in high-point situations

+ Generally rolls off his ankle and at his hips in impressive fashion for a lankier build, in order to not get lost on speed-cuts

+ Uses his length very well to sustain contact with receivers and stay in phase even against double-releases

+ Even as receivers release inside of him and put Lassiter to their back-hip, the corner often still has a hand on the pad to slow those guys down and stick to them once they break towards the middle

+ Packs the closing burst to re-enter the picture after separation is created by scheme, as receivers cross-release against man-coverage and he has to work around his teammate



Zone-coverage:

+ Surprisingly quick to redirect in off-coverage and drive forward in quarters, which was backed up by a 93rd-percentile three-cone drill at the combine (6.62)

+ You see him in that three-quarter turn in cover-three peak back at the quarterback and slow his feet momentarily in case the receiver stops or the ball driven to the back-shoulder, without making himself vulnerable of getting run by

+ Really works back down the stem in order to wrap around for PBUs on curl/hitch routes

+ Doesn’t panic or prematurely commit his hips or shoulder when he has to wait for receivers to release out of stacks

+ Displays the sudden acceleration to not allow receivers to detach on secondary routes

+ While he could have been penalized a couple more times, because Lassiter consistently turns and looks for the ball late, refs typically left the yellow cloth at their belt even as he ran into and got tangled up with the receiver

+ Times his jumps and plays the ball at its apex very well when playing with his eyes on it

+ Finished in the top-ten among corners in this class for PFF coverage last season (87.2), holding opposing QBs to 15-of-39 throwing his way for 136 yards and no TDs (no INTs either)



Run defense & tackling:

+ Shows a willingness to get his hands dirty and get involved in the run game, even as he back cuts it up between the tackles

+ You see some big-time collisions between him and running backs near the sideline

+ Even as receivers are already wrapped up, Lassiter joins the party and makes sure that guy goes backwards a lot of times

+ Quickly IDs screens and tosses aside blocking receivers – Has plays on tape, where he barrels down on tunnel screens and puts South Carolina’s 220-pound receiver Xavier Legette on his backside

+ You see him chase down running backs at full sprint from behind who have five yards on him a few times

+ Actually wraps and drives his feet as he races up against completions in front of him – only missed four tackles each of the past two seasons (8.2% career miss rate)



Weaknesses:

– With his lanky build, Lassiter will be vulnerable to push-offs going up against bigger-bodied outside receivers

– Only has average recovery burst when he gets into trail position and guys gain half a step on him, to still affect the catch-point

– There are some conflicting reports around what Lassiter ran in the 40 at Georgia’s pro day, but the consensus seems to be in the high 4.5s, after skipping that portion of the combine

– Hasn’t intercepted a pass since his freshman season (nearly 1000 coverage snaps since then), being more focused on ripping passes to the ground rather than into his body

– Could be more pro-active with attacking blockers out on the perimeter and establish first meaningful contact with his arms



Nobody has shut down wide receivers in man-coverage over the last couple of years quite like Lassiter – and he did so in the SEC. I couldn’t believe how little attention he got coming in this past season and I’ve held him in this regard ever since. I have to imagine that the lack of ball-production is what created the separation between him and that tier of the top five names generally considered to be ahead of him. However, those are the only guys who have been able to gain separation on him recently, at least based on consensus rankings. Because he’s fairly light, I could see Lassiter have some issues dealing with big alpha receivers, especially as he transitions to a league that allows the offensive player to be a lot more physical with their counterpart than the other way around, but I don’t have any problem with him going at the end of the first round since he can be a quality starting boundary corner in a press-man heavy system from day one.
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I had Lassiter behind only Mitchell, Arnold, and DeJean. Relatively even with Wiggins. Ahead of McKinstry, Rakestraw, Tampa, and everyone else.

All that to say I'm pretty warm and fuzzy about the pick.

So of course I'd watched his game vids, but I hadn't seen some of the more in-depth stats like what've been coming out tonight. And an interesting thing about those stats when matched up with his tape.. taking into account the paltry 15 catches for 136 yards given up in 2023, the 0 tds surrendered, the 38.7 comp. %, but only 8 passes defensed and 1 int in total.. is that opposing coaches and QBs - largely SEC or CFP coaches and QBs - just absolutely didn't wanna test this dude. And when they did it very rarely worked out ok.

Alright DeMeco, let's show him this level and let him f*ck*n' work..
 
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Lassiter from 2022 fall camp to the beginning the 2023 season was dealing with a Lisfranc foot injury which did not require surgery. But the ligaments are stretched (stretched ligaments seldom go back to original length) and more easily re-injure in the future. Residual after such an injury translates to problems with pushoff and explosiveness...........a criticism of his play.

Another thing I'll be interested in is how/where he will be used. Kirby Smart always played his CBs on one side or the other. His side was the left. That is the side that Stingley usually played.
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Looking at Kamari Lassiter relative to other players on this roster I see him competing for the nickel role first but having the flexibility to play outside if Okudah/Henderson don’t get it done.

One thing I notice about him, King and Myles Bryant. The 40 times caused them to slip in their drafts but the 3 cone and 20 yard shuttle were elite for their position on draft day. Lassiter had the top 3 cone time and 3rd short shuttle among all CBs at the combine. Imo those two drills are a better indicator of success at the nickel position, maybe just CB in general.

I think he’s an excellent fit in this defense and can’t wait to see how the competition shakes out.

Caserio mentioned in his post day 2 press conference that he had inside/outside versatility at CB. And he also mentioned Myles Bryant as a guy who had CB/safety versatility. I am liking the makeup of the DB room with the offseason additions.

The pass rush we should be getting will make everything look even better :)
 
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Lassiter from 2022 fall camp to the beginning the 2023 season was dealing with a Lisfranc foot injury which did not require surgery. But the ligaments are stretched (stretched ligaments seldom go back to original length) and more easily re-injure in the future. Residual after such an injury translates to problems with pushoff and explosiveness...........a criticism of his play.

Another thing I'll be interested in is how/where he will be used. Kirby Smart always played his CBs on one side or the other. His side was the left. That is the side that Stingley usually played.
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And yet he ran some the fastest agility drills at the Combine/Pro Day, fastest 3-cone and 3rd fastest short shuttle. So it seems like he’s still pretty explosive in his short area quickness/agility.

Finding his 10 yard split in the 40 seems beyond me right now
 
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