2022 WorldWide Rams Draft Profile: Ahmad "Sauce" Gardner | Cincinnati | CB

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Player Bio: Ahamad "Sauce" Gardner attended Martin Luther King Jr High School in Detroit, MI. At MLK, he helped his school win the Divison III State Championship in 2018, catching four passes for 126 yards and two touchdowns. He garnered Associated Press First-Team All-State selection at defensive back, was named First-Team All-State, and earned a spot All-Detroit Football Team at the defensive back from the Detroit News. He was tabbed as one of the Top-20 Detroit Public School League players in 2018. 
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ACCOLADES
2022 NFL Combine Participant
2021 AP All-American First Team
2021 AFCA All-American First Team
2021 FWAA All-American First Team
2021 Sporting News All-American First Team
2021 All-AAC Defensive Player of the Year
2021 Jim Thorpe Award Semifinalist 
2020 FWAA All-America First Team
2020 USA Today All-American Second-Team 
2020 AFCA All-American Second-Team 
2020 AP All-AAC First-Team 
2020 The Athletic All-AAC First-Team  
2020  Bednarik Award Watchlist
2020 Jim Thorpe Award Watchlist
2019 FWAA-Shaun Alexander Freshman All-America Team
2019 All-AAC First-Team 
2019 PFF All-America Third-Team 
2019 All-Freshman Team 
2019 The Athletic Freshman All-America Team

AHMAD "SAUCE GARDNER
OFFENSIVE GUARD
HOMETOWN                      |           CLASS
DETROIT, MI                       |           JUNIOR 
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DRAFT YR:  2022              COMBINE INVITE: YES

​HEIGHT                    WEIGHT                    ARMS
 6' 3"                190 lbs            33 ½"

HANDS                   PROJECTED 40-TIME            DRAFT GRADE
 9 ⅝"                       4.40                       6.72

SCHOOL:  CINCINNATI                                             |                    CONFERENCE: AAC
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COMBINE RESULTS
40 YD DASH     |     BENCH PRESS     |     VERTICAL JUMP     |     BROAD JUMP     |     3 CONE DRILL     |     20 YD SHUTTLE    
​       4.41         |              DNP              |              DNP             |              DNP          |             DNP             |              DNP                      
 
​PRO DAY RESULTS
40 YD DASH     |     BENCH PRESS     |     VERTICAL JUMP     |     BROAD JUMP     |     3 CONE DRILL     |     20 YD SHUTTLE    
​       4.43         |              23                  |              37 ½             |            126”          |              6.99            |              4.5​​​​​​​​​​​​

game film
#1 Ahamd "Sauce" Gardner vs alabama (2021)

#1 ahmad "sauce" gardner career highlights

Strengths

• ​He is a genuine candidate as a legitimate shutdown corner.
• He can play man-to-man coverage, press coverage, and zone -coverage to cover one side of the field without safety assistance.
• He has the perfect size, strength, and speed for a corner to match the more prominent and faster receivers.
• Posses good ball skills, a ball hawk who has in-depth skill in breaking on the ball, breaking up passes, and high points the ball with excellent soft hands.
• He is very agile with excellent fluid hips that can flip and run with the receiver.
• A very cerebral player has excellent eye discipline and vision.
• An aggressive cornerback that can come up for run support

​Weaknesses

• He is a bit slim can use more bulk to his frame at the next level.
• His aggressiveness can be used against him by the smarter or veteran quarterbacks.
• He tends to gamble on breaks and sets him up for double-moves that he tends to bite.
• He needs to take better angles to the ball to take himself out of the play.

​Draft Projection: 1st Round

NFL Comparison: Jalen Ramsey (Los Angeles Rams)

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