Declaring a player will be the top draft prospect at his specific position his final college season is typically a dangerous game. Like the NFL, the college football world spins at a torrid pace, and reputations often don't stick for anointed youngsters.But e sentially guaranteeing Derek Stingley Jr. will be the consensus CB1 in the 2022 draft cla s feels safe. He's been that good for that long at LSU, and the recently turned 21-year-old's physical attributes appear to be off the charts.Stingley was the No. 1 cornerback recruit in the country and No. 3 overall player in the 2019 high school cla s, per . Vladislav Namestnikov Jersey He then had an Adrian Petersonian true freshman season with the Tigers, a legendary debut on LSU's dominant national-title winning squadron. Stingley was fully prepared for the gauntlet of dynamic offensive talent that annually resides in the SEC -- and the College Football Playoff -- with 15 pa s breakups and six interceptions as an 18 year old.That season was so phenomenally sticky that the consensus opinion on Stingley's coverage abilities and NFL upside didn't budge after a five pa s-breakup, zero-pick 2020 in seven games for the Tigers. And the genetics in the Stingley family are robust. Derek's dad played in the Arena Football League. His grandpa, Darryl, was a first-round pick by the in 1973.At 6-foot-1 and 195 pounds, Stingley was built to play on the perimeter in today's NFL. He's long, hyper-fluid when changing directions, and scary explosive with recovery speed cornerbacks dream of, all of which make him a magnet for the football.He's ultra physical too. Check how he squeezed e sentially out of Los Angeles Kings Jersey bounds to force an incompletion on this vertical route. And that win down the boundary is all over Stingley's film. Buffalo Sabres Jersey Here's an almost identical rep against another NFL receiver, 2021 sixth-round pick .Considering Stingley was playing against high school wideouts the season before this play, it's almost unfathomable the 6-3, 211-pound Williams couldn't get back inside to make a play on the football.My favorite Stingley pa s breakup came on yet another future NFL pa s catcher, Texas' ( , fifth round, 2020). It demonstrates the full arsenal at the cornerback position. Effortle s, explosive hip flip and turn, stays in phase down the field, absorbs the push off, regroups, finds the football, and extends with one arm to knock away the football without bodying the receiver.That is Pro Bowl cornerback caliber awarene s. When scouting cornerbacks, I'm not just tracking pa s breakups, although I believe ball production is vital. I note where the cornerback is in relation to the receiver on catches he allows. Is he off the screen? Or in the pocket of the wideout battling to the ground?Stingley's lo ses are awe-inspiring. The receptions he allowed in 2019 were still amazing displays of sticky coverage. Alabama's beat him for two out-of-the-ordinary touchdowns -- one when Stingley thought an audible was occurring at the line and another when his feet got Carter Hutton Jersey tangled in Smith's with the ball in the air. On this throw acro s the field, check out how Stingley battled the entire play to increase the catch's degree of difficulty against the future Heisman winner.Stingley did get some help from that teammate bump midway through the route, but recovering on that deep over and timing his attempt at batting the pa s down were exquisite. No one could cover Smith in the SEC. Stingley gave him everything he could handle as a true freshman.How about this "lo s" against Pitts down the seam.Those type of clearly contested reps are as much a staple of Stingley's film as the outstanding pa s breakups or dazzling interceptions. Like this one on a pa s from, yep, another NFL player, Utah State's . You know, the quarterback the drafted in the first Francois Beauchemin Women Jersey round of 2020 to be the heir apparent to . And the football gods carefully planned Stingley's story to unfold at LSU. He went to high school seven miles from LSU's Baton Rouge campus in Louisiana, where he had 27 career interceptions.Stingley proved in that sparkling true freshman season he has all it takes to be picked early in the first round whenever he enters the NFL draft. There are no athletic limits to his game. He's aware well beyond his years and has already produced like a first-round pick.In fact, predicting Stingley to land inside the Top 5 doesn't feel risky at all.