Following Combine Meeting With Steelers, Maryland CB Deonte Banks Delivered Friday Field Show – Steelers Depot

The Pittsburgh Steelers actually have been busy assembly with cornerbacks on the 2023 NFL Scouting Mix and that’s signal that the crew will finally choose one in some unspecified time in the future through the 2023 NFL Draft. A kind of cornerbacks the Steelers had a proper assembly with in Indianapolis, Maryland product Deonte Banks, confirmed out nicely through the on-the-field drills on Friday.

Within the annual mix drills, Banks registered an official 40-yard sprint time of 4.35-seconds with a reported 10-yard cut up time of 1.49-seconds. He additionally registered a tremendous 42-inch vertical leap to go together with an equally spectacular broad leap of 11’4″. On the heels of that testing, we’ll have to attend and see what his 20-yard shuttle and three-cone instances are when his Maryland professional day rolls round.

At Maryland, Banks, who measured in on the scouting mix at 6001, 197-pounds with 31 3/8-inch arms and 9 3/8-inch arms, recorded 83 whole tackles, two interceptions, and 11 passes defensed in 28 video games performed over 4 seasons. He additionally had half a sack which got here this previous season. Professional Soccer Focus graded out his protection in 2022 at 74.3 along with giving him an NFL passer score towards of 71.4.

NFL Community’s Daniel Jeremiah, who not too long ago projected Banks to the Minnesota Vikings at twenty third total within the first spherical of the 2023 NFL Draft, made it identified that he’s an enormous fan of the Maryland product.

“Whether or not you need to say [Banks] is a No. 2 nook, no matter, he’s out on the sector when the beginning lineup rolls on the market,” Jeremiah stated. “I feel there are 20 of these guys.”

As for Banks and his protection expertise, he described them on Thursday when he held his mix media session.

“I bodily impose my will on folks all recreation,” Banks stated, in accordance with Vikings crew web site. “I press all day, and I’m actual bodily. I really feel like that’s what separates me.”

With Banks being a Maryland product, there’s likelihood that Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin already knew fairly a bit concerning the younger cornerback previous to speaking to him in a proper assembly in Indianapolis. In spite of everything, Tomlin’s son, Dino Tomlin, began his school profession at Maryland previous to transferring to Boston Faculty. The Steelers have clearly drafted a number of Maryland gamers over the course of the final a number of years as nicely.

Previous to his Friday subject session at Lucas Oil Stadium, Banks teased the media with what they need to anticipate to see.

“Y’all going to see me,” Banks stated.

Properly, we certainly noticed him on Friday and the identical goes for all 32 NFL groups. The one query now could be which crew will take him within the first or second spherical. Perhaps it will likely be the Steelers.