Unpacking Future Packers: No. 4, Ole Miss CB Trey Amos

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21-04-2025

Unpacking Future Packers: No. 4, Ole Miss CB Trey Amos
The Unpacking Future Packers Countdown is a countdown of 100 prospects who the Green Bay Packers could select in the 2025 NFL draft.
There will be some new faces inside the cornerback room at 1265 Lombardi Avenue this season. There will be holdovers like Keisean Nixon and Carrington Valentine, but the rest of the room will be made up of newcomers like Nate Hobbs, whom Brian Gutekunst signed to a four-year deal.
The Green Bay Packers let Eric Stokes, Robert Rochell and Corey Ballentine walk in free agency and Gutekunst will look to the draft to replace them.
A potential target in the Top 100 is Trey Amos. The Ole Miss cornerback checks in at No. 4 in the Unpacking Future Packers Countdown.
A three-star recruit, Amos started his collegiate career at Louisiana before transferring to Alabama for the 2023 season. During his three seasons at Louisiana, Amos recorded one interception and 13 pass deflections. During his lone season with the Crimson Tide, Amos recorded five pass deflections.
Following the 2023 season, Amos transferred to Ole Miss. During his lone season with the Rebels, Amos recorded 50 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, three interceptions and 13 pass deflections.
"Trey Amos' greatest strength, in my opinion, is his schematic and situational versatility," Ian Cummings, an NFL Draft analyst for Pro Football Network, said. "He's one of the few cornerback prospects in the class who can truly play whichever depth and coverage type you need him to: Press-man, off-man, or zone."
At 6-0, 195 pounds and 31 1/4 arms, Amos is a tall, lanky cornerback. He uses that length to get feisty at the catch point. He's got quick feet and good body control with the recovery speed to make up for any missteps. He doesn't give up much separation in coverage. A former track athlete, Amos has the speed (4.43) to get sticky on vertical routes. The Ole Miss cornerback comfortably turns his head to locate the ball and doesn't panic when the ball is in the air.
"Amos' athletic foundation certainly helps insulate that versatility," Cummings said. "He also has tremendous explosiveness, foot speed, lateral agility, corrective twitch, hip sink, and fluidity, as well as the long speed to hedge for vertical threats and stick to hip pockets up seams."
To pair with all the physical tools, Amos sees the field extremely well. He processes things at a lightning rate and trusts his eyes, showcasing good route recognition. He's very alert in zone coverage. With his reactionary quickness, Amos arrives when the ball does and uses his length to his advantage to dislodge passes.
"He's also a high-end processor with excellent reaction-to-stimulus in man coverage and keen field vision, route recognition, and anticipation skills in zone," Cummings said. "The term "scheme-proof" has been used for Amos, and it's essentially accurate."
In run support, Amos is a willing participant. He arrives with physicality and has the functional strength to get off the receiver's blocks with ease. According to Pro Football Focus, Amos recorded 16 run stops, an impressive number for a boundary cornerback.
Amos logged 562 snaps on special teams during his collegiate career and recorded three tackles. He also blocked an extra point attempt in 2022.
"Amos is solid but unspectacular in run support -- but solid is almost all you can ask for in that phase," Cummings said. "The same football IQ that helps him in coverage makes him a reliable operator closer to the line. Amos can process run directions and engage quickly, and he also has the vision to sniff out screens and respond downhill. He's not the absolute maniac flying downhill that a player like Jahdae Barron is, but he's appropriately physical. He can use his length to encumber blocks on the boundary, and he can pry through extensions and make plays. As his four tackles for loss in 2024 exemplified, he's able to convert in that phase of the game, too."
Fit with the Packers
Amos is a dark-horse candidate to be Green Bay's first pick. He checks the boxes with his fluidity, ball skills, scheme versatilty and length. He also just turned 23 in March, so while he may not be on the "younger" side, he's in no way, shape, or form geriatric.
"I would draft Amos because he's a top-20 talent on my board, and one of the safest cornerback prospects in the 2025 NFL Draft on the surface," Cummings said. "In coverage, he's versatile, well-versed, and a natural playmaker, and in run support, he's assignment-sound, workmanlike, and always keyed in. Amos' mobility profile is one of the most exciting elements of his game, because he already has so much beyond that. But with his blend of explosiveness, speed, length, agility, and fluidity, he bears some similarity to A.J. Terrell as an athlete."
The cornerback foundation of Hobbs, Nixon and Valentine is solid. That cornerback room needs bodies and they could stand to add top-end talent, especially with Jaire Alexander's days in Green Bay numbered.
Amos has the tools to develop into a team's top cornerback. He enjoyed a breakout campaign this past season and one could argue that growth will continue at the next level. With his length, recovery speed, ball skills, physicality and special teams experience, Amos would be a great value pick in the second round.
If he landed in Green Bay, Amos would challenge for starting reps on the boundary as a rookie and could quickly become a fixture in the starting lineup in Jeff Hafley's secondary.