Ohio State defensive back Jeff Okudah speaks at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis on Feb. 28, 2020. Credit: AP/AJ Mast
INDIANAPOLIS — Jeff Okudah is looking forward to competing against NFL wide receivers. As the top cornerback in this draft class, he should get that opportunity very soon.
But first, he wants to compete against people in the league who play the same position he does . . . and were once in the same place he is now.
That’s why, on a white board back home in his apartment, he wrote out all of the numbers that players such as Jalen Ramsey and Patrick Peterson and Stephon Gilmore posted when they were at the NFL Combine.