Kris Abrams-Draine 2024 NFL Draft: Combine Results, Scouting Report For Missouri CB

NFL TRANSITION

Abrams-Draine is one of the better corner prospects in the 2024 draft with his traits profile and his versatility to play outside, the slot and multiple coverage concepts. Abrams-Draine is thin-framed and smaller than desired to play outside corner, but he showed the short-area quickness, hip transition and physicality to play press man. 

There were many snaps in which he disrupted the receiver’s release timing with a well-placed jam off the ball. In press man, Abrams-Draine consistently matched vertical releases and stayed in phase through the route with excellent balance and body control; he was in a position to get his head around and locate the ball. 

Abrams-Draine played significant snaps of off-coverage, and while he showed the sudden burst to plant and drive, there were also snaps in which he lost contact with the receiver at the top of the route stem with a little stickiness in his transitions and change of direction. 

Overall, Abrams-Draine is a strong corner prospect with the athletic and competitive traits to be effective in playing press and off-coverage. Given that he has experience playing both, the question is whether teams will see him better transitioning as an outside corner or a slot corner. It might be that he gets snaps outside and inside. The bottom line is that he has the quickness and twitch to develop into a quality NFL corner with position and coverage versatility.

OTHER NOTES

Abrams-Draines came to Missouri from Alabama as a four-star recruit at wide receiver. As a freshman in 2020, he played five games at WR. Beginning with the 2021 season, he transitioned to corner and started 10 games. Abrams-Draines was a three-year starter at corner, earning First-Team All-SEC and Second-Team All-American in 2023. 

Abrams-Draines played significant snaps outside as the boundary, field and slot corner in Missouri’s sub-defenses. He has outstanding positional versatility.