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Ahmad Gardner: 'Everybody Wants to Score the First Touchdown on me'

The top-ranked cornerback in the 2022 NFL Draft joined the "Richard Sherman Podcast" last week.

CINCINNATI — The 2022 NFL Draft is a little over a month away, and Ahmad Gardner's draft stock has steadily risen these past few months. He recently appeared on The Richard Sherman Podcast to discuss his game with the All-Pro cornerback.

The two cornerback mavens broke down tape together during the interview, and Sherman wanted to know how Gardner changed things up with his technique to never allow a touchdown in his college career.

"You gotta think," Gardner said about switching things up. "I've never allowed a touchdown. So everybody wants to score the first touchdown on me. So they just get to studying me a lot. So I be like, 'man, I gotta do something different.' Just like playing Alabama. They knew I wanna get hands on, but I'm like, 'I might inch a little bit and then get hands on' like two yards down the field. So it just depends on who the opponent is. I just try to switch things up so the receiver or offensive coordinator can't get a beat on me."

No college ever got a beat on Gardner, not even Alabama, who couldn't complete a pass for positive yardage against him in the College Football Playoff. Since Feb. 1, Gardner has risen from the 16th-best consensus prospect in 2022 to the sixth-best prospect.

He is considered the best cornerback in this draft and hasn't been selected later than the 14th pick in any of the major mock drafts released over the past week. Gardner will be the Bearcats first opening round pick in fifty years and will likely be the highest selection in program history.

Check out the full interview here.

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