Chicago Bears: 10 viable draft prospects to watch at the combine

CB Josh Jackson, Iowa

I bet if you were to tell me at the beginning of the college football season last year that Josh Jackson would be some folks’ number one overall cornerback in this year’s draft, I would have questioned you a bit.

It’s funny how one season as a college football player can change everything.

All Jackson did last year with the Hawkeyes is make play after play, changing game after game in enormous ways.

Very rarely do you find a player like Jackson. He has such a nose for the football that it’s comical at times. Do you remember watching Ed Reed play football? If you do, you know what I mean by dubbing it “comical.”

Reed was one of those players who seemed to come up with the football every single game he played. Obviously, that wasn’t the case, but my goodness did it feel that way.

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Jackson boasts a 6’1″ frame with some of the longer arms you’ll see on a corner. He’s coming off a year where he posted a silly 27 passes defensed to go with eight interceptions.

By the way, he can in fact intercept a pass without using only one hand — I checked.

If Chicago wants a ball hawk, which I believe they do, Jackson is someone who is racing up draft boards at the moment and following the combine, and should be taken whenever a team feels right doing so.