Old Topic (still interesting) - White Cornerbacks

Is there even a white corner in FBS football?

I'm sure there are...though I'm not aware of any in the SEC. That's why I think this actually goes to perception of high school and even junior high coaches placing players.

The fluidity of the hips and reflexes it requires are just better in black people.

Physiological differences in muscle fibers. Bias can't possibly explain ZERO white corners in competitive football. It's the same reason white sprinters are virtually non-existent these days.

They don't even recruit them.

It's part truth and part bias that plagued the NBA before the European invasion which didn't buy into America's stereotypes.

White kids in America stopped playing basketball in the late 80's because they were told they wouldn't make it and they stopped playing RB and CB positions in football. It was QB or linebacker or bust.

European white athletes helped changed the tide in basketball...and whites started getting back to the sport in positions they thought were out of bounds...point guard, small forward. (Instead of just big lumbering white center or spot up shooting guard.)

Europe is so far behind the US in football development but it would be crazy to see in maybe 20 years - some white European NFL DBs...who for some reason get more a look because they're not just a white guy from America.

If small white guys can play WR, they can play corner. But certain positions get weeded out of athletes at a young age...like QB used to be weeded out to black athletes.

If some white guy had the exact measurables as Richard Sherman or Stanley Jean-Baptist, they would never ever even think of trying to switch him to CB.

So what about the white athletes who grow up in mostly white communities?

Would you say there is a bias against white sprinters? No, white sprinters objectively cannot compete at the highest levels. Times say so, there is no argument.

This is a biological issue, not a sociological issue IMO.

People of west African descent have a higher proportion of fast twitch muscle fibers especially in the pelvic girdle, hamstrings and thighs.

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Is there even a white corner in FBS football?

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Went to HS with a white guy that started 4 years at CB at am FCS school (09-12). If he had been 3 inches taller he could've played FBS.

He was the fastest players on our HS team. It was a large HS that puts out multiple FBS players almost every year, and there were two other guys on our class that became starters in secondaries at P5 schools.

He was on the state championship relay team too

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The lack of diversity of cornerbacks in the NFL is utterly disgusting.

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well they're all black, not white, so it's not racist