I admittedly didn’t know anything about Deonte Banks prior to the NFL Combine.
You can’t really blame me for that, either. Banks was a cornerback from Maryland who wasn’t Joey Porter Jr., a cornerback from Penn State.
Porter was the cornerback who had been linked to the Steelers for quite some time—maybe even as far back as last offseason. Banks was someone I had honestly never even heard of.
But that all changed after the Combine when I learned that Banks turned in a time of 4.35 in the 40-yard dash. Obviously, there’s more to playing cornerback in the NFL than just blazing speed.