Top safety prospect improves draft stock with historic day at NFL Scouting Combine

He also logged a 4.38 40-yard dash time and 1.49 10-yard split. 

Here is a look at his 40-time overlayed against some of the NFL's fastest wide receivers.

Emmanwori was already projected to be picked somewhere in the first two rounds and be one of the first safeties off the board, and his performance in Indianapolis only helped his draft stock.

He had a monster 2024 season for South Carolina, recording 88 tackles and intercepting four passes, returning two of them for touchdowns. 

Combine stars can tend to be misleading at times because it does not always translate over to the football field. Running and jumping in shorts is not the same as doing it in pads while you are trying to chase down and tackle an opponent. It does not always mean that you will fit in with a team's defensive scheme or locker room. But having those sets of skills certainly helps.

It also helps that he has a couple of years of big-time performance and production at an SEC school, against top-tier college competition, to show that he can also get things done on the field.

He might have made himself into a first-round pick on Friday when everything gets added together.