The two cornerback spots on the NFL's first-team All-Pro list in 2022 went to rookie Sauce Gardner and second-year player Pat Surtain II, who scalded the league by allowing a combined 79 catches for 870 yards, five touchdowns and four picks in 1,069 coverage snaps. They are both recent top-10 picks, the receivers they covered were rarely targeted, they gave up almost no big plays and they are each just 22 years old.
Both Surtain and Gardner have lived up to all possible hype, and while other first-round corners haven't been that successful, they're good more often than not.