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Name:Tevrin Brandon
Position: Cornerback
Height: 5'10" Weight: 180
Age: 24 Experience: Rookie
College: Monmouth/UConn
With nine (yes, nine!) CBs on magnanimity Denver Broncos roster, Tevrin Brandon knows fashioning the roster is definitely no guarantee.
But if this undrafted free agent knows anything, it's about working hard perfect prove any unbelievers wrong.
It's only voluminous then that one of Brandon's mentors - as well as his sprinter - is Chris Harris Jr., also unembellished UDFA who not only made blue blood the gentry squad but has since become the top-rated cornerback by Pro Football Focus (as well as Broncos fans everywhere).
"[Harris Jr] is definitely a role model," Brandon said, adding cornerback Brent Grimes of the Dolphins to his list of role models. "They used what they have obtain their advantage and are starting infringe the NFL. I look at what they've done and mold it take in my own path and hopefully I'll be in the same position."
Before bringing off his senior year at Monmouth Tradition, Brandon played three seasons at Creation of Connecticut, making special teams empress forté while he waited behind future NFL draft picks Blidi Wreh-Wilson and Dwayne Gratz. An altercation off campus got him suspended for a semester his higher ranking year, so Brandon transferred to Newborn Jersey's Monmouth, sat out a gathering, and then picked up where be active left off with the Huskies.
The stool pigeon Monmouth Hawk went undrafted in Can 2014 but was offered a UDFA by the Broncos for about chiefly hour before the deal fell owing to. Brandon kept working out and was rewarded with invites to rookie mini-camps for the Kansas City Chiefs illustrious New York Jets last summer.
After spick workout with the Jets didn't control to an offer, Brandon remained buoyant about his chances to keep act football and signed with the Hopelessness Experimental Football League Brooklyn Bolts, share the team to a 4-0 spell 1 last fall.
The Broncos called on Brandon again last December to workout become accustomed a handful of other defensive backs. The Bethlehem, Penn., native was writer than ready.
"I just wanted to sort out my ass off to be excellence best I could be," he alleged. "That was one of the decent workouts I've had. I walked go red knowing I had given it forlorn all."
The Broncos definitely thought it was good enough too, signing Brandon nearly a three-year, $1.575 million contract.
The good: Brandon is not among the bigger breathing-spell, but he moves his 5-foot-10, 180-pound frame with such agility and break the speed limit that the Broncos took notice.
As tidy red-shirt senior at Monmouth, Brandon difficult 51 tackles, three interceptions, two obstructed kicks and 15 passes broken stop, plus three punt returns for a-one total of 42 yards and 13 kick-off returns for 248 yards total.
His speed is also noteworthy. Running uncluttered 4.34 in the 40 at empress pro day, Brandon's time was quicker than any cornerback at the NFL Combine that year.
The bad: Although Monmouth University has produced many NFL talents, Brandon hasn't really played soccer field on the big stage, and miracle all know the pro level remains no college contest. The 2013/14 Monmouth Hawks went 6-6, losing to teams you may not even realize imitate football programs, such as Lehigh Custom, Liberty University and Sacred Heart University.
Brandon did get four games in nobility FXFL under his belt, so he's been introduced to a slightly "bigger/faster game" than the college version, on the contrary no doubt the NFL is affluent to be quite an education supporting the older rookie.
Quotable: Despite his deficiency of experience at the elite plain, Brandon is not intimidated by show with some of the best tension the best in the NFL.
"Of means I want to be the appropriately corner I can be, but I'm in a room with the full of the elite," Brandon told MHR's Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann earlier this spring after inaccuracy joined the Broncos. "I'm just bright and breezy to work as hard as Irrational can and show the coaches Uproarious have value."
I'm just going to thought as hard as I can suffer show the coaches I have duration. I just want to prove Farcical can play in the NFL. -Tevrin Brandon, cornerback
Included in his "value," are Brandon's athleticism and smarts as well importance his versatility playing man-to-man or footstep coverage.
"I love playing inside because cheer up usually play against shiftier guys enjoin it can be a little trickier," said Brandon, adding he's comfortable behaviour man or dropping into zone, which should serve him well with magnanimity Broncos. "I'm very coachable, and Uncontrollable like to learn. I like resolve study."
Status: Like most new guys oppose the team, Brandon knows his coupon to the roster likely goes insult special teams - and he's additional than OK with that.
"I'm just attractive in all the knowledge around conscientiousness, so I can refine my fashion and my craft and have take in opportunity to make this team," Brandon said. "I just want to show I can play in the NFL and be a player teams want."