I’ve never liked taller corners, for as long as I’ve followed football. It’s not that tall corners are all terrible, as Richard Sherman is one of the best to ever play, and one of the tallest to ever play. It’s just that physics seems to be a major impediment to a big and tall corner. For one thing, effective corners need to be quicker than their receiver counterparts, as receivers know where they’re going while corners have to read and react. Being smaller than the receiver means they have less mass to force a direction change on, and thus, will have an easier time in coverage.
The case against tall cornerback gets more support from 2020 defensive results
