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Prospect Profile: Iowa CB Desmond King

Cornerback | Iowa | Senior

Height: 5-foot-10 | Weight: 201 pounds

College Stats

2016: recorded 58 tackles (42 solo), 3.5 tackles for loss, seven pass breakups and three interceptions (one returned for a touchdown) in 13 games; returned 26 punts 264 yards; returned 27 kickoffs 750 yards (27.8 yards per kickoff return led the Big Ten)

Career: recorded 263 tackles (174 solo), 9.5 tackles for loss, 33 pass breakups and 14 interceptions (three returned for a touchdown) in a school-record 53 games (also started a school-record 51); won the Jim Thorpe Award, was one of five finalists for the Walter Camp Player of the Year, and was named a Consensus All-American after the 2015 season in which he recorded eight interceptions to tie a single-season school record (Nile Kinnick — the namesake of Kinnick Stadium — in 1939 and Lou King in 1981); First-Team All-Big Ten selection in 2015 and 2016

Combine Results

40-yard dash: did not participate (abdominal strain)

Bench press: 14 reps of 225 pounds

Broad jump: 9 feet, 9 inches

Vertical jump: 34 inches
3-cone drill: 6.