Football is increasingly a game dictated by numbers.
The draft profile for Caleb Downs should begin there.
Let’s start with these numbers, from charting data collected while I studied his 2025 college football season. Downs played 208 snaps aligned as a half-field safety, with another 97 snaps aligned as a middle-of-the-field safety. The Ohio State defender aligned as a boundary cornerback for 50 more snaps, a slot corner for another 168 snaps, and even played 41 snaps down in the box.
But the pre-snap numbers are just a part of the story. A brief snapshot of a bigger picture.
After the snap, Downs rotated to the middle of the field for 232 of
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