The second day of testing at the NFL Scouting Combine was a good one. The defensive backs and tight ends took to the field and Cowboys fans had eyes firmly fixed on the cornerbacks and safeties. So let’s get into the risers and fallers from the second day of testing.
Risers:
Daylen Everette, CB, Georgia
Everette checked every box for an NFL outside corner. He ran a 4.38s 40-yard time and jumped 37½” in the vertical leap, earning a 9.92 Relative Athletic Score (RAS). The on-field session matched the tape with
a very smooth pedal, confident agility, and he consistently extended away from his frame to finish catches on the gauntlet. The big thing was the functional athleticism, he didn’t just test well, he looked like he could play top-down coverage in the NFL without panic.
Chris Johnson, CB, San Diego State This one was the most impressive overall corner workout, and Johnson needed it coming from a small school. He registered a 4.40s forty time with a 38” vertical, then in drills he was the cleanest mover. He showed the smoothest backpedal, a sharp plant-and-drive, and easy transitions that showed he could turn on a dime. There were a couple of double-catches out there, but the movement and control looked like an every-down corner who can survive easily at the next level.
Toriano Pride Jr., CB, Missouri
The headline is the blazing 4.32s forty time, plus a 37½” vertical and 10’8” broad jump, but the story was his competitiveness during the field work. Early during the workouts he did have some hiccups, then he settled in and started stacking cleaner finishes. Teams love when a guy corrects on the fly in a scripted setting.
Kenyon Sadiq, TE, Oregon
The measurements killed any size nitpicks and the testing was nuclear. Sadiq blasted a 4.39s forty time, registered a 43½” vertical jump, along with a massive 11’1” broad jump, all in the 99th percentile. He didn’t do the catching drills, which matters because of the dropped passes in 2025, but he left the Combine proving he’s a seam-bender unicorn. Pro days are important now to show the catching skills off to raise that stock some more.
Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon
This is a name Cowboys fans need to know and he delivered a complete first-round safety workout. He registered an elite 9.67 RAS thanks to a 41” vertical jump, 10’5” broad jump, and a blazing 4.35s forty time with a 1.52s 10-yard split. On the field he showed fantastic change-of-direction skills for his build, and displayed clean hands even on throws outside his frame. When a safety is both explosive and clean technically, it’s hard to poke holes.
D’Angelo Ponds, CB, Indiana
The combine gave everyone the why behind his tape. There’s no getting away from the fact he’s small and measured just under 5’9” and 182 pound, but the explosiveness is real. He led all the corners with an insane 43½” vertical jump. He’s not for every scheme outside, but the movement and explosion combination he showed in Indianapolis makes him a very real role player instead of a nice college story.
Fallers:
Davison Igbinosun, CB, Ohio State
The measurements were all good and what you want, but the workout didn’t translate. The jumps were an issue with a 34” vertical jump and 10” broad jump, both not very reassuring. Then the on-field reps were where it hurt. The movement looked off with stiff hips, and he struggled to locate and adjust to the ball when put under stress. That’s the exact set of issues you can’t hide in the NFL.
Emmanuel McNeil-Warren, S, Toledo
This one is tough as it wasn’t exactly bad, just that he didn’t pop as much as the guys around him, meaning his ranking will fall with some scouts. He ran a 4.52s forty time, had a 35½” vertical jump, and a 10’2” broad jump, all are fine and not bad. The on field drills again were fine, but his workout stopped popping by comparison to the other safeties. Add a few moments where he failed to finish drills cleanly, and the day reads like a good player, but didn’t separate.
Miles Kitselman, TE, Tennessee
Kitselman had the roughest tight end testing getting a poor 5.83 RAS after he ran a 4.90s forty time (34th percentile), the worst broad jump in the class at 9”, and a bottom-tier vertical jump at 34½”. The drills didn’t rescue him either, he looked labored and didn’t catch cleanly to offset the athletic deficit. This kind of day may have shifted him from being a draftable TE3 to camp competition guy.
