New Mock Draft from Field Yates of Espn (Subscription required) was handed over to Kentucky Cornerback Maxwell Hairston to Green Bay Packers at the first place in the first round of Draft 2025.
Yates believes that the improvement of the corner can allow Packers and Jeff Haffa to play more men in 2025 and later, and called Hairston a “magnet for playing football”, which could “fly” during a 40-jard dashboard in combine NFL combine in Indianapolis.
Hairston played in 32 matches with 20 starts in Kentucky. He broke up 10 passes, intercepted six subsequent passes, forced three fumble and had 2.5 struggle for losses. A two-time choice of All-Sec (2023, 2024), Hairston produced three six career. He left five games with a shoulder injury in 2024.
Size will almost certainly be a limiting factor for Packers. Hairston competed at the Bowl Senior-a significant event for decision-makers in Green Bay-but only 5-11 and 179 pounds on a mobile phone. His arms are only 31 1/2 ″ length, so it is possible that Packers do not perceive him as a real perspective of the corner on their board, taking into account its weight and lack of length.
Not everyone agrees that Hairston is the prospect of the first round.
Daniel Jerremiah from NFL Media is currently evaluating the hairstyle No. 44 General perspective At this point in the process before striving. Here is the scout report of Jeremiah:
Hairston is a slim, athletic defender with ideal speed and liquidity. Within the press reach, it turns on the jam with one hand before turning and wearing vertical routes. Has a lot of explosion/speed. Within the coverage of the relationship, he likes to settle and catch receivers at the break point. He will have to play cleaning his hands in the field at the next level. In defense, Kentucky went back to play in the middle of the field compared to some formations/movements, but he was slow to diagnose and react from this alignment. He is willing to support and is vigorous shiny. Last season he was circumscribed to seven matches due to injury. He had a very productive season 2023 (five intercourse), but he wasn’t much goal in the matches that I studied since the last year. In general, Hairston offers a tempting mix of physical skills and production.
Data Brugler from Athletic is not so high on Hairston, its general perspective No. 54. His scout report:
Hairston moves quite effortlessly in all areas of the field and plays with lend a hand in the scope of human reach, while showing belief and awareness in the cover. It is a natural doing pieces at a fishing point, but it is also more crazy than robust, which will appear against physical receivers NFL and support.
What Brennen Rupp, Packers Wire Draft analyst about Hairston on No. 23?
“Maxwell Hairston is a feisty corner, which in the last two seasons has recorded six interceptions and 10 deviations. Hairston only played in seven matches last season, when he fought because of shoulder injury. It has a loose lower half and is Screaph on the run, “wrote RUPP. “Adopting Hairston is at the age of 23, it is a bit too rich for my blood, and Packers fans may not like a corner with the history of arms injury. He weighed 179 pounds in Bowl senior. This can be too light for Green Bay’s preferences. It is worth monitoring what it weighs in Combine. Yates has Minnesota Vikings, who took the defensive equipment of Oregon Derrick Harmon with the next choice. I think it is more likely that Brian Gutekunst is investing in trenches in the first round. “
