NFL Draft Profile: Deuce Vaughn, Running Back, Kansas State Wildcats
#22
Pos: RB
Ht: 5052
Wt: 179
Hand: 0948
Arm: 2768
Wing: 6700
DOB: 11/2/2001
Hometown: Round Rock, TX
High School: Cedar Ridge
Eligibility: 2023
Deuce Vaughn
Kansas State Wildcats
One-Liner:
An explosive playmaker with elite top-end speed and the wiggle to make any defender miss a tackle.
Evaluation:
This could be quietly the most explosive player in college football and has all the tools you want to see. He has elite breakaway speed, extremely agile with the shiftiness to make anyone miss their tackle and if that doesn’t work he has the power to run through the defender. He is a very small running back, but it doesn’t prevent him from dominating a football game. He is a patient runner with phenomenal field vision and can turn a loss of yards into a five-yard gain and the defense can’t stop it from happening. He is a smooth and clean route runner with very good hands. He also understands how to get open and be a great outlet for his quarterback. On the downside, his size makes him a little bit of a liability in pass protection. He has an outstanding work ethic and no matter the score, he is giving everything he has. Powerful legs that never stop moving. This gives him the ability to be very fast and still can run through a defense. He can sometimes get caught in the backfield by taking an extra cut, but that doesn’t happen too often. Though he is a powerful runner, he doesn’t have great strength and can be overwhelmed easily. He is almost a carbon copy of former NFL and Kansas St running back Darren Sproles, so he should have no problem finding success at the next level. However, it may take time for him to get used to the NFL as there will be a lot of players just as fast and much better at tackling.
Grade:
2nd-3rd Round
Background:
Deuce Vaughn is a hard nosed back from Round Rock, Texas. He accumulated a lot of awards in 2021 where he was a Consensus and First Team All American. Not only has he been a start at Kansas State, but also in High School at Cedar Ridge where he totaled more than five thousand all purpose yards and fifty touchdowns while also being a letter winner in track and field. Vaughn was born on November 2, 2001 to Christpher and Marquette Vaughn and has two sisters, Cienna and Camryn. Vaughn’s family has some NFL experience with his dad being an NFL Scout for the Dallas Cowboys.
Quotes:
"It's the work ethic that you see with Deuce Vaughn that I think everybody feeds off of his work ethic, whether it's on the field, it's in the classroom, it's in the film room, it's in the weight room. The kid works so hard. And to see your younger players watch arguably your best football player put the work in on a daily basis in all these areas, as well as doing community service, to say: You can do all these things and be successful. And so Deuce is becoming a tremendous leader for our football team." – Kansas State HC Chris Klieman on RB Deuce Vaughn
