Lewis Cine

The Minnesota Vikings add a thumper to their defensive backfield by selecting Georgia safety Lewis Cine with the No. 32 overall draft pick.

We’ll chalk this selection up as a win—for now. Harrison Smith, 33, isn’t a spring chicken anymore, and although Camryn Bynum is determined to surpass legendary quarterback Tom Brady as the greatest football player to ever live, the fact remains that he isn’t a proven starter. He’s a hard-hitting defensive back with underrated coverage skills.

The Vikings came into the 2022 draft with all kinds of needs in their secondary, so it was probably a bit of a surprise when they traded from 12 to 32. But here ...

Conclusion: Right now, Cine has the NFL attributes to be an overhang enforcer who will cause trouble on anything in front of him. He then moved to Cedar Hill. Texas to live with his uncle, enrolling at Trinity Christian. Again, he was a standout player, and again, his team won the state championship. If he’s on a line to your general direction, your yards-after-catch experience is not what you think it’s going to be. Strengths: Cine has the athleticism and tracking skills to take catches away from receivers to either seam and boundary. Cine comes down and across on plays with the hammer. Moreover, there are still a lot of good cornerbacks on the board, and Minnesota has extra picks to deal with that.

He played in 15 games in 2021 as he helped Georgia win the College Football Playoff National Championship. Cine was named Defensive MVP of the title game after ...

Cine then transferred to Trinity Christian High School in Texas, where he won a state title his senior season. He could sneak into the first round." Cine on Thursday became the first Georgia player drafted by the Vikings in a first round in franchise history. You love his football IQ and he plays fast, but you wish he made more plays on the ball in creating interceptions," Brugler added. 4. A 1st in the 1st "But he'll come downhill and hit you, he's that type of enforcing safety.

Cine is the third safety off the board and the first pick of the Kwesi Adofo-Mensah era.

Still, safety was a need for the Vikings too. This is an interesting pick from the Vikings for a number of reasons. the run with the athleticism in coverage to make plays. They selected Georgia safety Lewis Cine with the No. 32 overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft. The Vikings reportedly fielded trade calls for the pick, but decided to stand pat and take Cine, who they believe will be a major difference-maker in their defense. He has 4.37 speed and posted a great number in the broad jump as well. With the first of those three, they land Cine, who was the third safety to come off the board after Notre Dame's Kyle Hamilton and Michigan's Dax Hill.

Cine made a major impact in Georgia's national championship season and was named the defensive MVP of the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.

The draft resumes with the second and third rounds on Friday night. The reigning national champions, Georgia had five first-round picks tonight. Cine made a major impact in Georgia’s national championship season and was named the defensive MVP of the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. The Vikings like what he’s done at the highest levels of college football and think he’ll be ready to contribute right away as a rookie.

After waiting through the first 31 picks of the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft, a phone call from new Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah summoned ...

To bring good vibes to the organization and to be an asset in the long run." "I think the fact that I was selected where I was selected by the Vikings, they have a whole lot of faith in me," Cine said. "I'm from Boston, so I'm used to the cold," Cine said. "I tried not to approach it with a whole lot of expectations of who's going to pick me and who's not," Cine said. … I guess I'm gonna have to bring them things back out," he added with a laugh. It just means the most," Cine said. "I have coats. "We talk about our culture, goals of our culture – smart, tough, competitive – and I think we added somebody who's off the charts in all three," Adofo-Mensah said. "It's not a coincidence that five of those guys got drafted tonight," O'Connell said. "I think anytime you can add a really good football player, with the traits of toughness, that explosive speed – a guy who made a lot of plays on, really, the best defense in college football, [it's huge]," O'Connell said. I've still got a long way to go," Cine said. I said, 'I'm the general manager of the Vikings,' and he still didn't really get it," Adofo-Mensah smiled.

What a night. Bulldog safety Lewis Cine got the call from the Minnesota Vikings, making him the thirty-second and final pick in tonight's first round of the ...

He’s going to make his teammates better and he’s going to make the Minnesota Vikings a better football team. Lewis Cine is a talent, a contributor, and a leader. I’m on record saying that he was the only instate player I really felt Georgia missed on in the 2019 cycle and would regret not getting. If Nakobe Dean was the brain of the Bulldog defense, and Jordan Davis the heart, it often felt like Lewis Cine was the clenched right fist. Cine was a Thorpe Award semi-finalist and a first team All-SEC selection because he was undeniably a playmaker. It’s possible that every player who saw significant minutes on that unit at the end of 2021 will be drafted eventually, and that most will go in the first three rounds.

Lewis Cine played for Deion Sanders at Trinity Christian. He was selected in the first round of the NFL Draft last night.

He won state titles at Everett and Trinity Christian before a national title at Georgia this season. Sanders gave the 6-foot-1, 200-pound safety a shoutout on Twitter Friday morning. Be frugal my brother but take care of you."

The first day of the draft was a chaotic mess. One of the more fun first rounds in recent memory topped its own Marquise Brown trade with an A.J. Brown.

If the Vikings were as high on Cine as Kwesi Adofo-Mensah implied after the draft, then maybe the difference between Cine and Hamilton wasn’t all that big to them. Perhaps the Vikings just weren’t as high as Hamilton as I am. Cine could learn more in his time in the NFL. If he developed his cover skills in man-to-man coverage, he’d become a much more formidable option. To combat the two receivers, the Vikings send out two corners ( Patrick Peterson and Chandon Sullivan). To combat the other side, they send out Harrison Smith to cover the tight end and Cam Dantzler to cover the wideout with Bynum playing high safety. The Vikings did not get the best safety in the draft, though. He doesn’t have the ball skills of a true cover safety either, only notching one interception in his career. Imagine you are a quarterback playing against the Vikings. Say you’re in a 2×2 formation, with two receivers on one side of the formation, and a receiver and tight end split out on the other side. The Rich Hill chart has the Vikings losing the trade by about 50 points, equivalent to a third-round pick. Detroit is a division rival, as easy as that is to forget. Bynum, Cine, and Harrison Smith can all be on the field at the same time, not unlike the three-safety sets the Vikings used over the last two years. At the time, it made some sense to pass on Hamilton. After all, the Vikings have Cam Bynum and feel pretty good about him. At pick No. 12, the Vikings were on the clock.

Born in Haiti, the safety played under Deion Sanders in high school and was an MVP of the college football title game for Georgia.

His explosiveness showed in the broad jump, in which he led all safeties with a mark of 133 inches (11 feet 1 inch). 1. Cine, 22, was the last of the record-setting five Georgia Bulldogs defenders drafted in the first round on Thursday night. Here are five things to know about the newest Vikings defender.

After trading back in the draft, the Minnesota Vikings selected Lewis Cine with the 32nd pick on Thursday. What can they expect from his rookie season?

Grabbing a player like Lewis Cine with the 32nd pick is great value and fills an immediate need for their defense. After trading down from the 12th overall pick, the Minnesota Vikings landed Georgia safety Lewis Cine with the 32nd overall pick on Thursday night. Malik Willis was not selected in the first round and could be a massive target on Day 2.

Georgia safety Lewis Cine said he would strive to play in a smart, rugged manner and bring a physical element to the Vikings' defense while complying with ...

From what I hear he is a very laid-back guy. "Old-school. Real old-school. "It's the fact that I can be all-out physical and just do me on the football field and be OK with it," Cine said. "I think he will fit in with our defensive staff here. "Let me say that for sure because now at this level last thing I want to happen is to be fined. I can just enjoy the game and be OK with that, and then once I'm off the football field, just be calm, laid-back me."

The Minnesota Vikings introduced Georgia safety Lewis Cine as their 2022 first round draft pick on Friday at TCO Performance Center.

He played high school football for Deion Sanders, then became a star for Kirby Smart at Georgia. The Bulldogs had a historic night Thursday, with five defensive players drafted in the first round. At 6-1 and 200 pounds, Cine showed his athleticism at the NFL Combine with a 4.37 40-yard dash and 36.5-inch vertical. A lot of things you do in football, you can’t do in the outside world or you’ll get arrested. It still hasn’t hit me," Cine said. He’s a safety who plays violent, but within the rules and delivers big hits. "That was a great moment, something I’ll never forget for the rest of my life." He was about to give up, head to his couch and take a nap. His numbers on the field speak for themselves. He called TCO Performance Center "elite." You want to come chase dreams with us?’ He just starts yelling," Adofo-Mensah said. Then, his phone rang and it was a Twin Cities area code. I was real excited to get the call."