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Amos, a reliable zone corner with an appetite for man to man pressure, visited the Packers this spring.
Trey Amos might be the answer for the Green Bay Packers’ secondary conundrum — depending on what the question is.
If the Packers are looking for more depth on the outside, Amos fits nearly perfectly. If the Packers are looking for a polished, practical replacement for Jaire Alexander, Amos is close to ideal. If they’re looking for more help in the slot, well, then Amos wouldn’t be very much help. But with Nate Hobbs and Keisean Nixon and even Javon Bullard around to handle those duties, you have to wonder why, in that case, the Packers really feel they need one more slot corner.
Amos, currently ranked 39th on the NFL Mock Draft Database consensus big board, seems about as close to a ready-made fit for the Packers as you could hope to find. A hair under 6-foot-1, Amos is a sturdy 195 pounds and runs a swift 4.43-second 40-yard dash, though at times he doesn’t look quite that fast on the field.
What he is, though, is a solid outside corner, albeit one with a bit of an itinerant football past. Amos began his college career at Louisiana but transferred to Alabama after three seasons with the Ragin’ Cajuns. He spent just one season in Alabama before transferring to Ole Miss, finishing out his college having played a whopping 61 career games.
His last season appears to have been his best. Playing almost exclusively outside (he had exactly two snaps in the slot as a senior), Amos earned himself a first-team All-SEC nod and led the Rebels in interceptions and passes defensed.
Those ball skills appear to be the strength of his game. On tape, Amos loves to use his long arms (79th percentile wingspan, per Mockdraftable) to poke the ball away late, often finishing a pass deflection with a healthy hit to the receiver as well. Even if he wasn’t always a full-time starter, Amos made plays wherever he went in his college career. His 31 career passes defensed are the most among any corner in the consensus top 200.
Though he doesn’t play much inside, Amos does have some schematic versatility. Pro Football Focus rated him among this class’s best corners in both man and zone coverage, though they noted he “does some of his best work from Cover 3 and quarters schemes.” That echoes what Dane Brugler wrote in The Beast (“I liked him best in zone (Cover 2, Cover 3, quarters)”) and would be music to Packers’ defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley’s ears if Amos ended up in Green Bay.
The Packers do appear to be interested. They’re using their pre-draft visits to focus more heavily on the top of the draft this year than in the past, and that’s where they need to be looking if they’re interested in Amos. Though he’s 39th on the consensus board, PFF ranks him as the 28th best player in the...
