East Carolina CB Shavon Revel Jr. out for season with torn ACL (0:31)
East Carolina senior cornerback Shavon Revel Jr., one of many high cornerback prospects within the upcoming NFL draft, tore an ACL in follow this week and can miss the rest of the season. (0:31)
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Pete Thamel, ESPNSep 20, 2024, 12:02 PM ET
East Carolina senior cornerback Shavon Revel Jr., one of many high cornerback prospects within the upcoming NFL draft, tore an ACL in follow this week and can miss the rest of the season, sources advised ESPN.
Revel has been some of the productive corners within the nation for the Pirates. For the reason that begin of 2023, he has 11 move breakups and two defensive touchdowns. That features a 50-yard interception return towards Appalachian State final week.
A supply known as it a “freak damage” to his left knee that occurred in follow on Wednesday.
ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. ranked Revel because the No. 2 cornerback prospect within the upcoming draft behind Michigan‘s Will Johnson. ESPN’s Jordan Reid ranked him because the No. 14 general prospect in his rankings.
Revel defied conference by staying at East Carolina this season, turning down profitable alternatives to switch to a few of the high packages in school soccer.
“He has an opportunity to be this 12 months’s Quinyon Mitchell,” stated an NFL scout who has seen Revel this 12 months, referencing the previous Toledo cornerback who grew to become a first-round choose within the 2024 draft. “He is as proficient of a participant as there may be in a Group of 5 convention.”
Nearly each workforce within the NFL has gone by means of East Carolina to see Revel this 12 months. That included space scouts, nationwide scouts and scouting administrators, a testomony to Revel’s expertise.
Revel projected as a first-round choose. The NFL scout remarked that he was shocked Revel had two interceptions already this 12 months, as he’d anticipated opposing quarterbacks to not throw in his route.
Revel is 6-foot-3 and 193 kilos. He earned second-team All-AAC honors final 12 months, which put him on the radar of nearly each SEC and Massive Ten workforce within the nation.
“The dimensions, the size and the motion abilities, for being as tall and lengthy as he’s,” stated the NFL scout of Revel’s potential. “You do not see a physique sort as rangy and fluid as he’s at that measurement.”
Revel’s path to East Carolina included working overnights at an Amazon facility and a stint at Louisburg Faculty, a junior school in North Carolina. He got here to an ECU camp, ran a 4.4 40-yard sprint and a proposal to the Pirates quickly adopted.
After he shined final season, together with a powerful efficiency in his first begin towards Michigan, Revel’s energy convention suitors emerged shortly. He rewarded ECU’s religion in him, which emerged early in 2024 as a mutually helpful determination.
The whole lot had come collectively for Revel, who’d improved considerably within the offseason and had carried out as probably the greatest gamers at his place within the nation up to now in 2024.
He’d logged two interceptions and eight tackles, showcasing the fluidity and motion that enticed NFL scouts.
