.adamgorney and RivalsWoody hosted their first Twitter Spaces of the CFB season. Here were five questions picked out for further discussion:
From a talent perspective, McClain is phenomenal. He’s so smooth in coverage, he had Pick Sixes in his junior year when teams were foolish enough to throw his way, he’s a quiet kid but in coverage he’s fearless and competes hard. From that line of thinking, the Lakeland, Fla., standout has all the tools to be special from Day 1 in the SEC.
Two things that are different about these two: McClain has only been playing the position for a few years exclusively where Stingley was groomed from early on to be an elite corner. And two, Stingley was rocked up at 185 pounds in high school and is now 195 in the NFL. At that pace, McClain would have to gain 20-30 pounds to keep up physically.
McClain certainly has the skills to step in early in the SEC and shut down top receivers. But I do wonder if DB coaches will take it a little slower with him, get some more pounds on him and then send him out to lock down one side of the field.