The No. 1 rule for defensive backs on any level of football is normally pretty simple: Whatever happens, don’t get beat.
No matter what, stay with your man, or lockdown your area. Stripped down to its most basic definition, that is essentially what it means to be a cornerback or a safety.
Shadow Creek High School product and incoming defensive back Jalen Emery hardly gets beat.
By adding the 5-foot-9-inch corner to the 2021 roster, UH football will be getting a player who plays like a fighter jet.
Far from the days of “three yards and a cloud of dust,” what we now know football to be is a game of air, and it sometimes seems like Emery’s feet hardly touch the ground.