STRENGTHS
Kelvin is a fluid athlete with the size, speed, and strength to play multiple positions in your defensive backfield. He has the athletic talent to be considered as one of the better and most intriguing corners in the draft. He has excellent hands to make the interception and watching him catch the ball I wonder why he didn’t consider playing receiver on the other side of the ball. Kelvin does a solid job when playing man-to-man defense or in zone coverages. As I stated before, Kelvin is an intriguing and talented defensive back, and if and when he matures he could be a solid number 2 corner for the team that selects him.
CONCERNS
There is a list, as long as my arm of concerns about how Kelvin panics when he gets beat and how he doesn’t play up to his 40 times and lacks the agility to recover, and how he tries to guess too much in zone coverages and that causes him to freeze and how sloppy and poor a tackler he is but, I’m not going to harp on all of those concerns. My biggest concerns are that Kelvin has to upgrade and gain more maturity because what I see on film is a lack of maturity and confidence in his ability to be the player he thinks he is.
BOTTOM LINE 4.56
For all of Kelvin’s size and athletic talent, it surprised me when I turned on the film and saw a player who lacked the passion to match up and try to dominate. Against Florida, he got beat and didn’t catch the Tight End from behind and that told me two things. First, he doesn’t play to his speed, and second, when he gets beat he surrenders. Getting beat in coverage is just a part of the job but giving up after you get beat is not and poor tackling skills because you hesitate, is not a part of the job description also. If Kelvin matures and learns to handle adversity as well as success, he could become one of the best defensive backs from this draft class, lord knows he has the talent. But for me personally, if I was a GM, I would let another team go through the growing pains and see where he is at after his first contract is up. But that’s just me, and many players over the years, have proven me wrong before, because my profiling is not absolute, when it comes to the draft. Hopefully, Kelvin will be one of those that will prove me wrong, but I do see a long road ahead of him before that will happen.
