Montaric
Brown.
Montaric
Brown.
Arkansas· 6'0"· 196 lb· 4.55s 40
"A small-town Arkansas corner with average testing numbers who led the SEC in interceptions as a senior, then turned the 222nd pick into a three-year, thirty-three million dollar extension."Pre-draft read
A press-and-trail boundary corner who plays bigger than his weight. Brown is six feet even and around 190 pounds, and his value comes from feel rather than speed: he reads the stem, keeps his eyes disciplined and finds the ball late in the route, which is how a seventh-round pick led the SEC in interceptions as a senior.
The athletic testing is average across the board — a 4.55 forty, a 4.44 short shuttle, an 11-rep bench — and it shows when a genuine burner stacks him vertically. He compensates by playing with leverage to the sideline and by tackling willingly in run support, which is rare for a small-school Arkansas corner who could have coasted on coverage. Recovery speed is the hard ceiling on the profile.
A zone-heavy defense built on Cover 3 and quarters, where a corner keeps his eyes on the quarterback and drives on throws in front of him.
Year 1: special teams contributor and fourth corner. Ceiling: a full-time boundary starter who produces takeaways in zone.
A pure man-press system that asks him to travel with a number one receiver, because his recovery speed cannot bail out a lost rep.
Jacksonville's zone structures let him do the one thing he does better than anyone at his draft slot: find the football.
LOCKDOWN DB: Montaric "Busta" Brown Highlights
Arkansas coverage tape from the All-SEC senior season.
Montaric Brown my GOODNESS!
The team's own clip of a signature play against the Jets.
Montaric Brown (2025-2026) Highlights
His 12-start season with two interceptions and a team-leading 12 breakups.
Brown grew up in Ashdown, a small town in southwest Arkansas near the Texas and Oklahoma lines, raised primarily by his mother Danica and his stepfather Eddie Richard. He played wide receiver and safety at Ashdown High School, where his senior year produced 110 tackles, seven interceptions and 52 catches, and he committed to Arkansas without ever leaving the state.
The college arc was slow and then steep. He redshirted in 2017, played 11 games as a rotational freshman in 2018 with nine tackles and a single breakup, then became a real contributor in 2019: 10 games, 38 tackles, an interception returned 12 yards, three breakups and a fumble recovery. His junior year in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season brought 31 tackles, two tackles for loss, an interception, six breakups and a forced fumble in eight games.
His senior year is the one that got him drafted. Brown started all 13 games in 2021, recorded 54 tackles, six pass breakups, a forced fumble and five interceptions, a total that led the Southeastern Conference and earned him first-team All-SEC honors on a nine-win Arkansas team. He left Fayetteville with 42 games, 132 tackles, seven interceptions and 16 breakups, a productive corner whose combine numbers never matched the tape.
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Led the SEC in interceptions as a senior
five picks in 2021, the kind of ball production that seventh-round corners almost never have.
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First-team All-SEC honoree
voted onto the conference's top team by people who watched him cover league receivers every week.
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Reads route stems and breaks late
he plays the quarterback's eyes without losing the receiver, a mature trait for a small-town prospect.
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Willing in run support
54 tackles as a senior from the boundary, and he does not avoid contact when the ball goes outside.
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Four-year production curve that rose every season
nine tackles as a freshman, 38, 31 in eight games, then 54 with five picks.
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Average athletic testing across the board
a 4.55 forty, 4.44 shuttle and 34-inch vertical leave no margin against NFL vertical speed.
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Recovery speed is a hard ceiling
once a receiver stacks him past the stem, he does not have the gear to close the gap back.
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Light frame for a press corner
190 pounds at six feet means bigger receivers can box him out at the catch point.
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Late bloomer with one elite season
the interception total came in a single year, and evaluators had to bet it was real.
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| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
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| 2018 | Arkansas | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | Arkansas | 10 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 | Arkansas | 8 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 2021 | Arkansas | 13 | 54 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| Career | — | 42 | 132 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 2 |
Season lines follow Sports Reference and sum exactly to the career totals shown: 42 games, 132 tackles, four tackles for loss, seven interceptions, 16 pass breakups, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. The 2021 line is independently confirmed by cfbstats, which lists the same 13 games, 54 tackles, one tackle for loss, five interceptions, six passes broken up and one forced fumble. He redshirted in 2017, so no row exists for that year rather than a line of zeros. Interception return yards total 12, all from 2019. Sacks are verified zeros across every season.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Boundary corner who wins with anticipation and tackling rather than top-end speed.
Undersized, average-testing corner whose instincts and zone feel made him a paid starter.
Jacksonville defensive back whose role peaked as a rotational starter before fading out.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Jacksonville took him 222nd and got a starter. Brown spent his rookie year almost entirely on special teams, appearing in eight games with one start and six tackles, then earned a part-time defensive role in 2023, starting six of 12 games and playing more than half the snaps with four pass breakups. That was the proof-of-concept season.
The full-time job came in 2024: all 17 games, 10 starts, a career-high 75 tackles, six tackles for loss, eight breakups and his first NFL interception. He followed it with a 12-start 2025 season of 51 tackles, two interceptions and a team-leading 12 pass breakups, plus a playoff start with six tackles. On March 9, 2026 the Jaguars signed him to a three-year, $33 million extension, which is the clearest verdict available on a pick made at the very end of the draft. Through four seasons he has 52 games, 29 starts, 166 tackles, three interceptions and 24 breakups, and he is being paid like a starting corner rather than a roster survivor.