Top 5 cornerbacks in college football for 2019

#2 Kristian Fulton, LSU

Kristian Fulton, LSU

If you recently watched tape on LSU’s Greedy Williams this is the guy who outplayed him and surprisingly returned for his senior campaign. The six foot, 200 pound corner was heavily utilized in man-coverage as part of LSU’s defensive scheme, where he displayed the ability to mirror and match off the line. He has the long arms to reach around receivers and make plays on the ball.

Fulton allowed only 41.5 percent of the passes his way to be caught and gave up a minimal 49 yards after the catch, while intercepting one pass and knocking down another nine. Unlike Greedy, this year’s clear CB1 for the Tigers has no problem defending in-cuts and he had a great interception on one of those versus Georgia.

Unfortunately what those two do have in common is that neither one of them is overly excited to act in run support. Unless he takes a big step back in 2019, I don’t really see Fulton falling out of the first round next year and he will have plenty of opportunities to go up against some of the nation’s best receivers – Texas’ Colin Johnson, Vanderbilt’s Kalija Lipscomb, all those Alabama receivers and plenty of others.