Reggie
Robinson II.
Reggie
Robinson II.
Tulsa· 6'1"· 205 lb· 4.44s 40
"Mel Kiper's most improved cornerback in college football, a 6-1 Tulsa press corner who led his league in breakups as a senior after three anonymous seasons."Pre-draft read
Robinson is a big, physical press corner who plays to the size on his roster card. At 6-1 and 197 pounds he jams receivers at the line, uses long arms to reroute them and stays on top of vertical routes, and he led his conference in passes defended as a senior because he is always around the ball.
He is comfortable in press-man and in off-zone with his eyes on the quarterback, is a willing tackler in run support and blocked four kicks in his career. The looseness is the question. He is a little tight in his hips turning to run, and quick releases from smaller receivers can get him grabbing to recover. The signature is length plus ball production, a developmental outside corner with real senior-year momentum.
A press-man defense that plays its outside corners at the line and asks them to reroute and squeeze receivers to the sideline.
Year 1 fourth corner and special-teams contributor, with a ceiling as a starting boundary corner in a press-heavy scheme that protects him with safety help.
A pure off-man defense that asks corners to mirror quick, twitchy slot receivers in space without contact at the line.
Reggie Robinson II: Unknown NFL Superstar
Pre-draft film study of the press technique and ball production that made him a riser.
Reacting to Reggie Robinson Tulsa Highlights
Analyst walkthrough of his senior-season tape at Tulsa.
Reggie Robinson Highlights
College cutup of the breakups and interceptions from his conference-leading 2019 season.
Robinson is the rare prospect whose senior year changed everything. A Cleburne, Texas, product who played 45 games with 34 starts at Tulsa, he spent three seasons as a solid but anonymous American Athletic Conference corner and then became the best defensive back in his league in 2019.
The numbers were the argument. As a senior he led the conference with seventeen passes defended, including thirteen breakups, ranked second in the league with four interceptions, added 38 tackles and two fumble recoveries, and blocked a kick. He was named the conference's defensive player of the week after a five-tackle, three-breakup, one-interception game against UCF in which his pick set up the game-winning field goal. He closed with 132 career tackles, 34 career pass breakups and four blocked kicks.
He became a genuine riser. Mel Kiper called him the most improved cornerback in college football, and Robinson became Tulsa's first drafted player since 2011 and the program's highest pick since 2006. The caution was that all of this came from one season at a Group of Five program against receivers he would not face again, and that his hips were tighter than his production suggested. Dallas, which badly needed secondary help, took him at 123.
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Press-man length
At 6-1 with long arms he jams receivers off their route stems and stays attached down the sideline.
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Conference-best ball production
Led his league with seventeen passes defended and thirteen breakups while ranking second with four interceptions.
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Special-teams value
Blocked four kicks across his college career, an immediate way onto an NFL roster on day three.
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Willing run support
Fits and tackles rather than avoiding contact, a trait that made him a complete outside corner at his level.
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Steep improvement curve
Went from anonymous starter to conference defensive back of the year, suggesting the development was not finished.
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Tight hips
A little stiff turning and running, which shows up against receivers who can stack him vertically off a clean release.
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One-year producer
Three quiet seasons preceded the breakout, raising the question of how repeatable the 2019 tape really was.
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Level of competition
Faced American Athletic Conference receivers, a step below the ones he would see every week in the NFL.
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Recovery grabbing
When beaten off the line by a quick release, he reaches and holds instead of running through the route.
Relative Athletic Score (Kent Lee Platte) benchmarks combine/pro-day numbers against every measured prospect at the position since 1987. 10.00 is elite; 5.00 is average.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.44sp50
- Vertical
- 36inp50
- Broad jump
- 132inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.09sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.18sp50
- Bench
- 22repp50
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Tulsa | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | Tulsa | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | Tulsa | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | Tulsa | — | 38 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 0 |
| Career | — | 45 | 132 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 |
Career figures of 45 games, 34 starts, 132 tackles and 34 pass breakups plus the 2019 line come from Tulsa's official draft release; his career pass-defended total is listed as breakups only, while the 2019 figure of seventeen includes his four interceptions. A separate tracking site lists 36 games and 90 tackles, so only the school's published figures are used and the earlier seasons are left empty rather than derived.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A developmental press corner whose value lives on special teams and in emergency defensive snaps.
The ceiling: a long, physical corner who takes a few years to stick and then becomes a productive starter.
A one-year Group of Five producer whose hips and level of competition end the career before it starts.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
He never got a defensive snap. Robinson played five games as a rookie in 2020, all of them on special teams, logging 65 special-teams snaps with one tackle and one forced fumble, while the coaching staff moved him from corner to safety and back again during a season with no offseason program because of the pandemic. Even as Dallas fielded one of the worst pass defenses in the league, he did not play a single defensive down.
A turf-toe injury cost him all of 2021 on injured reserve, and Dallas waived him in March 2022. Houston claimed him, then waived him in May; Cleveland claimed him, released him with a failed physical, and re-signed him days later. He never appeared in another regular-season game. His career totals are five games, one tackle and one forced fumble. In hindsight the miss was as much circumstance as evaluation: a one-year breakout from a Group of Five school needed development and reps, and a pandemic rookie year plus a position shuffle plus an injury gave him none of it.