Player Summary:

A third-year Safety, started 40 out of 44 career games, with no impactful injuries in 2017. 1^st year in Vic Fangio's defensive scheme, where he is primarily utilized as a boundary cover 2 safety but is also positioned as a cover 3 hook/flat or seam/flat defender. Possesses solid height and very good weight with a muscular build, displays good acceleration and short area with a combination of solid speed and agility.

As a cover 2 boundary safety, displays very good mental processing with his positioning according to QB eyes as well as understanding the route concepts vacating his zone after diagnosing no other possible threat to his zone. Has good acceleration to break on the ball and demonstrates very good ability to contest the catch.

As a cover 3 seam/flat defender, has very good play strength and the ability to jam larger tight ends at the line of scrimmage and maintain this contact throughout the route stem. Displays very good discipline understanding route concepts and sticks with a receiver's seam route despite several jab steps faking a more underneath inside route.

As a slot defender in man to man against larger TEs and elite route running RBs, demonstrates very good hip fluidity both on defending seam routes (in hitch seam passing concept) while in a soft squat off-man coverage, breaks and flips hips exactly when the elite running back-receiver does running a 7 yard stutter and go.

In press man against TE, again shows his hip fluidity when the TE attempts to cross his face at top of route stem. Very good run supporter flows well-maintaining gap responsibility against a zone run play while displaying very good block shedding ability shedding the blocker often by using their momentum against them or to even dodge lineman, especially on screens. Very good tackler in closed spaces and when taking angles. Displays very good mental processing in the run game with his tackling angles as well as having the competitive toughness to take an angle that will keep a runner in bounds when the opposing team is driving with under a minute in the half and no timeouts. Good tackler shoots the legs and wraps up.

As a deep single high safety, he shows marginal ball tracking skills, awkward flipping hips with defender behind him causing him to then be off balance, misjudge the depth of the ball, shows marginal jumping ability, and misses out on a pick that an adequate deep safety would make. Adequate speed limits his range in the passing game despite his very good short area burst.

Has a tendency to lose his leverage when facing bigger receivers and tight ends from the slot position, attempts to play receiver straight up with his physicallity later as the route stem progresses and loses his original leverage and angle to cut off route.

As a cover 3 SS, has adequate eye discipline against PA, will often lose the RB in the flat on PA by moving his eyes to other receivers assuming the RB stays in to block after PA . Displays adequate mental processing against end around motions/plays and will keep eyes on the end around receiver on opposite side and visually ignores his responsibility for contain in the run defense. He has a tendency to go low and launch while tackling which will occasionally make him susceptible to spin/juke moves by more agile runners.

Overall, Adrian Amos is a starting strong safety you can win with using his versatility to fit either a cover 2 scheme as a deep boundary/field safety or cover 3 scheme as hook/curl or seam/flat defender. His mental processing and acceleration make him an asset as a boundary safety while his tackling, run support, hip fluidity, inside man coverage, and mental processing make him a valuable hook/curl seam/flat cover 3 defender.

Measurements:

Height: 6000
Weight: 218
40YD: 4.56
10YD: 1.60
Arm: 32.25
Hand: 9.125
Vertical: 35.5
3 Cone: 7.09
Pro Shuttle: 4.03
Broad Jump: 122
Bench Reps: 21

Games Scouted:

MIN@CHI 10/09/2017
CAR@CHI 10/22/2017
CHI@NO 10/29/2017
DET@CHI 11/19/2017
CHI@PHI 11/26/2017