At their rookie camp that May he repeatedly won praise from Carroll, who after one lively scrimmage told a nest of microphones, unprompted, “I like Donny Lisowski. He was never the same player after that. The Baltimore Ravens' Marlon Humphrey is second, at … It’s a mystery, but Sehorn was the last … Just get a practice rep. Just make the team! This is one of the ways Africans have dissipated body heat over thousands of years in sub‑Saharan conditions. For a while there Lisowski believed he might get invited to another NFL camp and become the first regularly contributing white cornerback in the NFL since the Giants’ Jason Sehorn, who took his last snap at the position in 2002. Although Mueller played running back and linebacker at his suburban Denver high school, Jim Harbaugh and his Stanford staff projected the teenager as a cornerback, the spot where Mueller would one day be replaced, in a manner, by a converted receiver named Richard Sherman. Though his size and his stats suggested that cornerback was Fox’s natural position, the NFL insisted it was not. I’ve played at every possible level: college, semi-pro, Arena, CFL, NFL. Patrick Peterson, Cardinals. Sports Illustrated, however, pointed out that Sehorn wasn’t truly the last white cornerback. “I see you!” Sherman yelled, leaning backward and nodding at the white cornerback. 38 broke up a 40-yard fade down the opposite sideline. After I ran a 4.43 at the combine. In the spirit of Italian sprinter Piettro Mennea, who in 1979 broke the world 200 record by running it in 19.72 (still the best time by a nonblack athlete), Cioffi defeated the favorite in that state title race, Anthony Averett, who now starts at cornerback for Alabama. New Chapter! “I could make those plays. Just be on the roster with CORNERBACK next to your name instead of SAFETY.”. The last well-known white cornerback was Jason Sehorn, formerly of the New York Giants. It means overlooking Ethan Kilmer’s single magnificent snap as a corner for the Bengals in ’06, and it completely neglects another member of the Cincinnati secondary that season, the real Sehorn—the last white player to start a regular-season NFL game at the position. I’m a corner.”. NFL.com senior analyst and personnel guru Gil Brandt ranks the greatest cornerbacks in NFL history. Richard Sherman liked the first two plays, but the slant is what launched Seattle’s second-year cornerback from the sideline, his yet-to-be-famous dreads flying, Donny Lisowski thinking he’d died and gone to football heaven as coach Pete Carroll’s hip‑hop selections scored the scene from speakers taller than Donny. Nah. Kilmer’s claim to fame at State College: all the times he humored his teammates by leaping and touching the 12-foot ceiling in the locker room. “There’s no sound on these clips,” Tucker says. The last time we even got a glimpse of a white cornerback … It’s not as likely that a white teenager is out there saying, I wanna be Richard Sherman.”. “At 5' 11", 185 pounds. “That’s no longer the goal. But those days have passed; Lisowski is out of the game. So while it’s clear that not many players at the position are white, does that mean there are currently zero white cornerbacks in the league? Todd Goodrich/University of Montana (left), Rod Mar (right). Today Peterson is the outside linebackers coach at Texas State, his childhood dream of becoming the next Sehorn having ended with a gruesome elbow and shoulder injury his sophomore year. And Sherman is one of the biggest community activists in the NFL. These players can change the outcome of a game by shutting down the other team’s best player. The brash Sherman is also one of the league’s more intelligent and thoughtful players. Known for being one of the league’s biggest trash talkers, Jalen Ramsey can certainly back it up. Take a look at how all 24 of his selections stack up. The quietly effective Darrelle Revis was the league’s best cornerback with the New York Jets earlier this decade.