One of the nation’s top cornerbacks who was a semifinalist for the Thorpe Award and a second-team All-SEC selection \u2026 Started all 12 games of the regular season at cornerback and totaled 50 tackles with 4.5 tackles for loss, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery for a touchdown, one interception for a touchdown and eight pass breakups … His eight PBU ranked 10th in the SEC \u2026 Did not play in the Music City Bowl after declaring for the draft \u2026 According to PFF, his 83.3 coverage grade among cornerbacks ranked second in the SEC during the regular season and 18th in the FBS (min. 300 coverage snaps) … Allowed only one touchdown catch on 451 coverage snaps \u2026 Owned two defensive scores with a pick-six at Mississippi State (9\/27) and a fumble return for a touchdown vs. Syracuse (8\/30) … Became the first SEC player with an interception return and fumble return for a touchdown in the same season since Missouri’s Cale Garrett and Alabama’s Trevon Diggs accomplished the feat in 2019 … Logged four total tackles with three solo stops in road win at Florida (11\/22) … Tied his career-high with seven tackles, logged one pass breakup and posted a half-TFL in win vs. New Mexico State (11\/15) … Posted six total tackles vs. No. 18 Oklahoma (11\/1) … Made five total tackles with one TFL in road win at Kentucky (10\/25) and also logged his first-career forced fumble … Totaled four tackles and one pass breakup at No. 6 Alabama (10\/18) … Logged four solo tackles with one TFL vs. Arkansas (10\/11) and added his sixth pass breakup of the year … Snagged his first career pick-six at Mississippi State (9\/27) and finished the overtime victory with six total tackles, including a career-best 2.0 TFLs … Posted a career-high seven tackles in SEC opener vs. No. 6 Georgia (9\/13) … Started the home opener vs. ETSU (9\/6) and had a pair of pass breakups in his Neyland Stadium debut … Started at cornerback in his Tennessee debut vs. Syracuse (8\/30) and earned SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Week honors after making an immediate impact in the secondary, finishing with four tackles, a fumble recovery for a touchdown and three pass breakups, all career bests … Provided a swing in momentum against the Orange with a 22-yard fumble return for a touchdown late in the first quarter, the first scoop-and-score for the Vols since 2023 … His three PBUs were the most by an SEC player in Week 1.<\/p>\n
2024 \u2013 RS-FRESHMAN (COLORADO)<\/p>\n
Part of a cornerback rotation at Colorado that included Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter \u2026 Earned All-Big 12 honorable mention honors from College Football News \u2026 Played in all 13 games with one start and also was a major contributor in special teams coverage \u2026 Finished the season with 24 total tackles, six pass breakups, two interceptions and one tackle for loss \u2026 In his first career start against Arizona, limited future top pick Tetairoa McMillan to only five receptions for 38 yards, while collecting his second career interception and returning it 46 yards \u2026 Delivered a breakout game against Kansas State (10\/12) after Hunter left for injury \u2026 Finished with two tackles and his first career interception, returning it 59 yards, that helped set up a touchdown against the Wildcats \u2026 Collected a career-high three solo tackles in Alamo Bowl vs. BYU (12\/28).<\/p>\n
2023 \u2013 FRESHMAN (AUBURN)<\/p>\n
Played in four games before earning a redshirt \u2026 Saw action against UMass (9\/2), Samford (9\/16), Vanderbilt (11\/4) and Maryland (12\/30) \u2026 Made three solo tackles in Music City Bowl against Maryland.<\/p>\n
A four-star recruit who played for head coach Tanner Rodgers at Eagles Landing Christian Academy in Georgia \u2026 Ranked the No. 20 cornerback prospect in the country by On3 and No. 48 by 247Sports \u2026 The No. 18 overall prospect in the state of Georgia by On3 \u2026 Played cornerback, wide receiver, quarterback and running back for a squad that went 7-5 and made the second round of Georgia’s AA playoffs \u2026 Accounted for 1,112 yards of total offense (647 receiving, 279 passing and 186 rushing) and 13 touchdowns \u2026 On defense, was credited with 40 tackles and three interceptions \u2026 Also made a big impact on special teams, returning two punts for touchdowns along with a kickoff \u2026 Named the 2022 Region 5-2A Athlete of the Year \u2026 A three-time all-region baseball player (two-time all-state CF), part of an all-state 4×100 relay in track and a basketball letterman \u2026 Parents are Bengie and Crystal Hood \u2026 Has two sisters and five brothers \u2026 Brother, Brandon, played running back at Colorado in 2024 before transferring to UMass \u2026 Uncle, Roderick Hood, played eight seasons in the NFL after appearing in 47 games as a defensive back for Auburn \u2026 Majoring in journalism and media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the nation’s top cornerbacks who was a semifinalist for the Thorpe Award and a second-team All-SEC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34086,2468,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-208980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-homepage","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}