It would be unwise for Broncos to give up on CB Isaac Yiadom

The second-year cornerback has received a lot of hate and derision from fans since his lackluster Week 1 performance but did Isaac Yiadom show anything worth salvaging?

Denver Broncos' second-year cornerback Isaac Yiadom played a poor game against the Oakland Raiders, but it wasn’t all bad. There were some bright spots in his game, both in coverage and against the run.

He finished with eight tackles.

The bright spots can be hard to see because of the number of glaring mistakes Yiadom did make, which were exacerbated by Derek Carr choosing to pick on him and the coaches being slow to adjust. After watching the game, Yiadom's mistakes and plays allowed were not completely on him. That lessens the blow some.

Still, it's hard to get over the fact that Yiadom relinquished eight catches in coverage. On a few of them, he doesn’t really deserve the blame he got, though.

On one deep pass, Yiadom was supposed to get help from Will Parks, who never came over to provide that support. Five other completions were quick passes to take advantage of the Broncos playing off coverage, and Yiadom came up quickly to make the stop.

The last two really are just on Yiadom where he got beat deep with no safety help and got beat quickly to the inside.

“Again, at some point, he’s going to have to break some of those up," head coach Vic Fangio said on Thursday. "We were rolled up to him a fair amount. I probably should have done it more, but you can never roll up to a corner every play of the game and at some point, they’re going to have to break some of those up.”

Most of the flaws we saw in Yiadom's game were on display in the first half, but the Broncos coaches eventually made adjustments and his play drastically stepped up. That shows that Yiadom can improve his play and be a solid cornerback for this team.

Even in the first half, one thing that showed up was that Yiadom was pretty quick to come up and make the tackle on underneath throws.

So what adjustments did the Broncos make to bring out a better version of Isaac Yiadom?

The biggest one was the coaches made sure his back wasn’t to the ball. In the first half, he had to play with his back to the line of scrimmage, which isn’t a strong suit for him. When he couldn't see the ball coming, he had issues reading receivers to make a play on it.

The Broncos also made an adjustment that let Yiadom be a little more physical at the line of scrimmage. Yiadom proved at Boston College that he is a solid press corner, and letting him use that skill-set helped him play better in the second half. He is a physical corner and limiting that just hinders his game.

Despite the early issues in coverage, which, again, weren’t all on Yiadom, he was good in the second half and was stout as a run defender. He showed a lot of promise that the Broncos can still work with, and they know how to use him better.

When Bryce Callahan comes back, Yiadom will go back to being a depth corner and won’t see the field as often as the Broncos continue to develop him. Fans may want to give up on Yiadom, but he has shown plenty for Denver to keep working with.

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