The 2024 NFL Draft is getting close, making it an excellent time to highlight some of the class' best players with scouting reports. Each report will include strengths, weaknesses and background information.
Here's our report on Kamari Lassiter.
Lassiter’s tape in 2022 and 2023 showed a strong outside mirror match corner who played with patience and poise, at times using a one-arm stab to disrupt the receiver's release and allow him to maintain his balance and body control and stay in phase through the early part of the route stem.
Lassiter is a lean, wiry corner. He was very comfortable playing press man, mirroring and stabbing receivers off their releases with the easy burst and acceleration to carry vertically and get his head around to locate the ball. Lassiter also showed a good feel for route concepts in zone coverage, instinctively understanding how to minimize the conflict that two- and three-man combinations placed him in.
Lassiter, while not necessarily sudden and twitchy, showed plant and burst quickness and burst when aligned in off coverage and overall showed the kind of loose hips and easy transitions and change of direction demanded to play outside corner at the next level.
Lassiter has experience playing in the slot, and it would not be surprising if some NFL coaches and teams see him transitioning more effectively inside, but I believe he has the length and athletic traits to play outside and be a quality corner at the next level.
Lassiter came out of Alabama as a four-star recruit and became a starter at Georgia in his sophomore season of 2022.
In 2022, Lassiter played both right and left corner with extensive experience lining up to the field and the boundary. The same was the case in 2023. In 2023, Lassiter played significant snaps in the slot depending on the opponent (Missouri, where he matched up man-to-man at times with Luther Burden).
He was at times deployed as a blitzer when he was aligned at boundary corner. Lassiter had a strong game in man coverage versus Alabama in the SEC Championship, especially playing press man.
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