Cowboys CBs: Jourdan Lewis Among NFL Best in the Slot?

FRISCO – Rely ’em up, and instantly the Dallas Cowboys is perhaps wealthy and deep on the difficult place of cornerback.

They’re hoping to have competitors on the “different nook,” with Anthony Brown impressing the lots reverse NFL interception chief Trevon Diggs on the perimeter. (Extra on that in a second.)

However typically omitted of the highlight: Jourdan Lewis, who has been a greater than succesful possibility within the slot. The truth is, he has settled into a task as Dallas’ beginning slot nook.

Need extra? Lewis, who was not too long ago ranked the third-best at his function by Doug Farrar of Landing Wire.

However now alongside comes a hoped-for contender for snaps.

Does second-year cornerback Kelvin Joseph stays an possibility on the surface? May he problem Brown for a beginning spot on the perimeter? Can he assist in the slot? Will defensive coordinator Dan Quinn’s scheme name for an even bigger physique to take snaps there?

Dallas is undoubtedly hoping that each Joseph and Nashon Wright will make notable enhancements of their respective second seasons with the workforce. Understanding that their two high choices [Diggs and Brown] are sturdy sufficient to anchor a formidable secondary, perhaps each Joseph and Wright have the posh of growing at their very own tempo, barring harm.

In consequence, Lewis appears poised to proceed on because the Cowboys’ slot nook in 2022 — which isn’t a foul factor for Dallas, within the least. The 26-year-old Michigan product performed in 16 video games for Dallas in 2021, making 13 begins. He completed the season combining for 61 tackles, with 11 passes-defensed, three interceptions, two fumble recoveries and one pressured fumble.

Competitors is wholesome, and if Joseph avoids authorized and NFL punishment, he figures to supply it. However in each season that he is been right here, Jourdan Lewis quietly finally ends up being the man who will get the slot-corner snaps.

It should take extra competitors than he is ever confronted earlier than to nudge him out of that function because the third man deserving point out as a “starter” alongside the ballyhooed Diggs and the underrated Brown.

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