With the lifespan and pay of a RB versus a Corner, would think that these kids who think twice. Duke was our best RB over the last decade and even he wishes he played corner.
Bro...
We have a kid right now who can be a P5 Corner recruit but he wants to play WR. (I'm switching him anyway though lol)
(not saying this applies to CJ but)
It's getting harder and harder to find kids who want to play DB these days. It's this "me first" and "give me attention" generation.
Football is very offensive centric right now.
They all want to touch the football. Some of them don't want to buy-in to the process of learning DB. Takes a lot of development and growing pains. They don't want to get moss'd on social media either.
They rather play the pretty boy positions and run fancy routes and catch the football.
There's kids out here who are 5'11"-6'2" and are pedestrian at WR...with little to no offers...and a position change could change their entire life.
Just the height alone will get you noticed at DB. Scouts covet length at DB.
You could be mediocre, but if a scout arrives to spring practice and sees a 6'2" kid at DB, he immediately starts evaluating him. And even if he's not 'that' good, if he's got the physical tools and attitude, most scouts think they can work with him.
Both of the Freshman CB's I have in college right now were WR's at some point in high school and made the switch. Both were 6'1" and pedestrian at WR. They made the switch and turned into D1 Corners. One started as a True Freshman and only has 2 years total of CB under his belt.
Every school I've coached at in the past 10 years has had 2x/3x as many WR's on the roster as DB's.