Safety
Northern Iowa
6-4 224
40 time: 4.40
Draft board overall prospect rank: #181
Draft board safety rank: #16
Overall rating: 56*
4/14/10: Let’s take a journey through time, it’s 2009 (big stretch) April of 2009 in fact, April 25th 2009. It’s the 2nd round of the NFL round and the Raiders are on the board. Which fast 40 time player will Al Davis take? It turns out it was Michael Mitchell, who I had never heard of before that day, and I did several 7 round mock drafts last year. It turns out that Mitchell, a safety from Ohio, was viewed as a 2nd round prospect by at least one other team, and a 3rd round prospect by several others. That same thing, on a slightly smaller level, could happen this year with Quentin Scott. Scott is a hard hitter from a tiny school with linebacker size and good speed and fluidity. His teammates have nicknamed him Taylor Mays and he had some hits last year that were on that level. Unlike Mays, he can actually hold his own in pass coverage so he could legitimately play both safety positions at the next level, or at least he has the potential too. The only thing is his weak level of competition so we have to take what we saw of him in pass coverage with a grain of salt, but I love his upside and I think he has the potential to be a surprise 4th round pick. Or I could be wrong. I am kind of just going out on a whim thinking he’ll be drafted that early based on his uncanny comparisons to Michael Mitchell, but I have a good feeling about his draft position and an even better feeling about his potential.
NFL Comparison: Michael Mitchell
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