Tonight I learned: Morris Claiborne was a unanimous All-american in 2011

Claiborne won the Thorpe

So Mathieu can't be an unanimous All-american, but still be an All-american because "it's hard to place" his position?

I'm just saying that's what people argued in 2011: "Was he a safety or was he a corner." He lined up at both and even linebacker at times. But lets get it straight. He was voted as an AA corner in 4 of the 5 selectors that determine whether you're considered a unanimous AA.

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Claiborne was a wet glove on dudes the entire year. It’s disappointing that his pro career was a flash in the pan comparatively.

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Yeah, expected more, but he dealt with a ton of injuries and IIRC was forced into being a zone corner when he was a pure man corner throughout college.

His suspension probably hurt him

I say this all the time. TM7 was the greatest playmaker in the history of LSU but he was never the best pure cover corner on any team he played on at LSU. Patrick Peterson, Claiborne, heck I would say maybe Therald Simon were all better at that than him.

TM7 wasn’t a bad corner at all and as a pure playmaker no one is better than TM7. That dude just had a knack for making plays but a lot of his biggest plays we remember him for were not even playing as a corner. They were either in special teams or blitzing off the edge.