Top cornerback prospect sees private workout spoiled by hamstring injury
Avieon Terrell didn't have the day he had hoped for.
Top cornerback prospect sees private workout spoiled by hamstring injury originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . In the race to be the top cornerback in the 2026 NFL Draft, each contender has taken a different path through the pre-draft circuit.
LSU's Mansoor Delane established himself as the favorite with his excellent platform season and put an exclamation point on his profile with a sub-4. 40 40-yard dash. Tennessee's Jermod McCoy, after an exceptional 2024 campaign, missed the entire year with an ACL tear -- among the biggest injury questions of this class.
Clemson Tigers cornerback Avieon Terrell is my favorite from the bunch. But after a hamstring injury postponed his pro day into a not-so-private workout, it flared up again to spoil the festivities. Avieon Terrell injury update On Monday, Terrell had the opportunity to show scouts what they were missing from the Clemson pro day.
Fate had other plans. Adam Schefter reported that he aggravated the hamstring injury on the first run of his day, ending it early and all but guaranteeing that we won't get public testing numbers. That's obviously not ideal for Terrell, who showed plus athleticism on tape but isn't the type of no-doubt track star that doesn't need to run.