Cor'Dale
Flott.
Cor'Dale
Flott.
LSU· 6'1"· 175 lb
Flott is a long, reed-thin coverage corner who LSU moved everywhere: boundary, field, nickel and over the slot as a matchup body. The organizing trait is length married to feet — at 6-0 1/2 with a 6-2 wingspan, he mirrors in the phase without grabbing and uses the arms late rather than early.
The second trait is closing speed to the throw. He timed 4.40 and it shows on the break, letting him play off coverage and still arrive at the catch point on out-breaking routes. Against the run he is a wrap-and-drag tackler rather than a striker, and that is the honest limit: at 175 pounds he can be walled off by receivers who want to block him. The signature is that he never looks rushed in man coverage — the feet buy time his frame cannot.
Flott's slender frame and excellent quickness make him a prime candidate for a versatile defensive back role in a Fangio two-high defense, emphasizing zone coverage principles.
He projects as a Year 1 nickel or dime package contributor, evolving into a starting boundary or slot corner with significant deep safety versatility.
A traditional man-heavy Cover 1 scheme that consistently asks him to press and hold up against bigger, more physical receivers.
His fluid athleticism and intelligence are best utilized in schemes that prioritize scheme versatility and ball hawking over sheer size and strength.
LSU Cornerback Cordale Flott Official Sophomore Season Highlights
His 2020 breakout: 43 tackles and 4.5 tackles for loss, with the press-and-trail technique and the downhill run triggers on display.
Cordale Flott Highlights From LSU
Career reel across all three LSU seasons, showing the alignment versatility between boundary, field and nickel.
Giants CB Cordale Flott Film Breakdown (LSU 3rd Round)
All-22 breakdown of the draft profile: mirror feet in man coverage, length at the catch point and the run-support limits at 175 pounds.
Flott is a length-and-feet corner rather than a frame corner. LSU used him as a chess piece from the day he arrived, playing him outside, in the slot and near the box, and the versatility was not a euphemism for a lack of a position — he covered slots with the quickness required and outside receivers with the length. What he does not have is mass, and that number, 175 pounds on a six-foot frame, was the entire debate at this stage of the board.
The production line is modest but the context is not. He played 14 games as a freshman on a national championship defense, started all 10 in 2020 with 43 tackles and 4.5 tackles for loss, and started 10 of 11 as a junior with his first interception, then left with eligibility remaining. The flags are the ones you would guess: he gets displaced at the line by physical receivers and he is a drag-down tackler who will miss when asked to strike.
The board saw a developmental starter with clean man-coverage mechanics and an obvious weight-room requirement. Third round was the right neighborhood; anything earlier would have been paying for a frame that did not exist. The Giants took him at 81 and handed him a start in Week 2 when Aaron Robinson had an appendectomy — an accurate preview of the career: thrown in early, asked to grow in public.
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Length in the phase
A 6-2 wingspan on a six-foot frame lets him contest at the catch point from a trailing position without grabbing, and it shows up on fades and back-shoulder throws.
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Mirror feet in man
Stays square through the stem and matches releases without opening his hips early, the cleanest press-and-trail technique among the day-two corners in the class.
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Closing burst
A 4.40 forty plays on the break rather than just in a straight line, letting him play off coverage and still arrive on out-breaking and comeback routes.
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Positional versatility
Played boundary, field, nickel and matchup snaps over slot tight ends at LSU, giving a coordinator an actual sub-package answer rather than a single alignment.
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Disruption near the line
Recorded 4.5 tackles for loss in 2020 from defensive back alignments, evidence of a corner who reads run action and triggers downhill instead of drifting.
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Play weight
At 175 pounds he can be walled off by bigger receivers in the run game and moved off his spot at the line, and the frame does not look like it will carry much more.
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Tackling technique
A wrap-and-drag tackler who rides ball carriers down rather than striking, which produces missed tackles in space and on the perimeter screen game.
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Ball production
One interception in three seasons and 11 passes defended; he is consistently in position but does not turn coverage into takeaways at a rate that raises the floor.
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Physical releases
Receivers with a strong hand and a plan can reroute him early, and once the timing is disrupted his recovery depends on the closing speed rather than technique.
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | LSU | 14 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2020 | LSU | 10 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 2021 | LSU | 11 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Career | — | 35 | 98 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 2 |
2020 and 2021 lines taken directly from cfbstats (2020: 10 G, 43 tk, 4.5 TFL, 4 PBU, 1 FF; 2021: 11 G, 40 tk, 1.0 TFL, 1 INT, 3 PBU, 1 FF). 2019 from LSU/official records (14 G, 15 tk, 4 PD). Season totals sum to the career line shown. LSU's own bio lists 99 career tackles and 12 passes defensed because it credits 41 tackles and 4 PD in 2021; the cfbstats game log is used here. 2019 TFL and all fumble recoveries are unverified and left null rather than zero-filled.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
The realistic outcome he has largely reached: a long, lean multi-year starter who wins with technique and length, holds up in coverage, and gets exposed against the run.
The ceiling: a long, instinctive outside corner who turns positional coverage into takeaways and becomes the defense's preferred matchup on the field side.
The floor if the frame never caught up: a serviceable length corner who rotates through sub packages and roster spots without ever locking down a full-time job.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Cor'Dale Flott has played two seasons for the New York Giants, primarily as a rotational cornerback and special teams player. He has shown flashes but is still developing into a consistent starter.
The Giants never really waited on him. Flott started in Week 2 of his rookie year after an injury to Aaron Robinson and played 11 games with 23 tackles and two passes defended. From 2023 forward he was a fixture: 14 games in each of the next three seasons, 36 tackles and his first NFL interception in 2023, a career-high 51 tackles with seven passes defended in 2024, and a 2025 season in which he started 14 games and posted a career-best 11 passes defended with another interception. Next Gen Stats credited him with a 42.9 percent completion rate allowed as the field-side corner in 2025, fourth-lowest among corners targeted at least 20 times. He left New York with 53 games and 37 starts, then signed with Tennessee as an unrestricted free agent in March 2026.
In hindsight this is what a correctly priced third-round corner looks like. Nobody projected a shutdown player, and he is not one; what he became is a four-year starter whose coverage grades outran the box score, exactly what the length-and-feet profile promised. The weight concern was real and persisted — he is still listed at 175 and still loses run-game reps to blockers — but it never cost him a job, because the thing he does well is the thing the position is graded on. The Giants got a starter at pick 81 and then had to pay market value elsewhere to replace him.
Data note: from Miami