Prospect Profile: Kamren Kinchens, S, Miami

Context

Plays both split safety and post safety as well as lining up in the box on occasion.

Coverage

His maximum range in coverage is a complex mix of two deficiencies and one excellent trait, with one of the deficiencies making more or less of an impact depending what routes he is facing. He is athletically limited, he isn’t very twitched up and his first few steps after the top of his drop are adequate at best. His acceleration is not his best trait. He also has technical deficiencies in both his backpedal and his drive mechanics. Backpedal is too high and a little cumbersome, meaning he has to sink his weight as part of his transition. He will also run around the transition at the top of his drop, taking far too many steps to transition into forward motion. This deficiency is worse when covering routes towards the sideline, but far less noticeable when breaking on balls thrown over the middle of the field. Helpfully for his range and play speed, he’s a high processor at the position and gets off his spot quickly. All of this means that from the post safety position, he is only able to make plays on routes on the sideline at or just outside the numbers, whereas he’s a threat to pick the ball off on balls thrown over the middle into intermediate areas of the field because his drive mechanics are better when he is moving more linearly. Adept at reading the QB, most often breaking on the ball at the beginning of the QB’s release.

In man coverage, he still has the deficiency in drive mechanics, as well as his footwork looking messy, that ends up hurting him in breaking on the football in a timely manner. But, he also maintains his processing chops and will read receivers’ hips, giving him a jump on routes and getting him close enough to in-phase to have a chance of making a play on the ball when it is thrown. While he is also better at covering routes thrown over the middle of the field in man, the exception to the rule here is post routes. When he faces a savvy receiver who can set him up, he is liable to sit on the possibility of an intermediate route at the expense of being deeper than the deepest. It means he can get beaten badly on post routes run well that freeze him near the break-point. His ball skills are excellent, and he will pick the ball off over the middle. Over ten INTs the last two years tells you all you need to know. He’s also a ball hawk and goes for the ball when running into receivers who have caught the ball and can dislodge it. He has good timing and accuracy on his pass break-up attempts. He also turns and locates the ball when covering downfield, is able to contort his body to high-point the football, and has good timing to his leaps. He has a quick trigger on WR screens and Running Backs leaking out of the backfield. He is an elite open field tackler, coming from high to low and rarely if ever beaten vs all competition.

Run Support

Aggressive, tough and competitive in the running game. He makes hard hits on bigger ball carriers and will meet Running Backs hard in the hole. He will also take on bigger OL blockers and while he won’t routinely get off the block and tackle the ball, he can affect the runner. He takes outstanding run entry angles and is very rarely wrong with the angle he takes to the ball. He accelerates into tackles, makes form hits with his shoulder and wraps up.

SUMMARY
Outstanding run support, takes elite angles to the ball. Outstanding tackler. He has excellent ball skills and processing, but technical and athletic deficiencies hold him back.

PRODUCTION 
JR: 1 Sack, 63 To. Tackles, 2 PBUs, 5 INTs
JR: 57 To.Tackles, 1 FF, 4 PBUs, 6 INTs
Injury: Head/neck injury (missed 4 weeks ’23)

RAVENS FIT
Athleticism 2
Intelligence 5
Versatility 4
Grit 5
Scheme 5