Aaron Flowers S Oregon |
NFL Draft Profile & Scouting Report

Scouting Report: Weaknesses

• Surrendered seven scores, with a coverage below average
• Tackling finish is shaky, with thirteen misses on the year
• Takeaway production is light, with a single interception on the year
• Young and raw, with eligibility timing to confirm

Scouting Report: Summary

Flowers started all fifteen games as a redshirt freshman for Oregon, including both playoff games, an impressive workload for a young safety with good timed speed and the size to play box and deep alignments. He posted seventy-one tackles, forced a fumble, and reads route concepts to drive downhill into the run. The early starting experience on a playoff team and the size-and-range combination give him a projectable, if unfinished, foundation at the back end.

The coverage and the finish are the concerns. He surrendered seven scores with a coverage below average, his tackling finish is shaky with thirteen misses, and his ball production is light with one interception. He is young and raw, with his eligibility timing worth confirming. He is a traits-and-experience safety whose coverage detail and tackling both have to tighten to match the early opportunity.

The wager is on the youth, the size, and the starting reps, a developmental safety with starter upside if the coverage and the finishing develop. The scores allowed and the missed tackles keep the grade measured, but the trajectory and the workload are encouraging. He grades on Day 3 as a developmental back-end defender whose best football should be well ahead of him given the early starting workload on a playoff team.