Strengths

• Savvy cover skills to recognize and anticipate routes. Understands what's coming and has good ball skills.
• Trusts his eyes with very good awareness. Has very good reaction skills to break quickly on the ball.
• Has at least adequate straight-line speed and good balance, fluidity to change direction.
• Alert defender for zone coverage, showing good understanding of route progressions occurring behind him and a quick burst downhill to break on underneath passes in front of him.
• Good instincts and anticipation reads and reacts with discipline. Dangerous with the ball in his hands.

Weaknesses

• Will slip off tackles and needs to finish more consistently.
• Fails to maintain inside technique in man coverage. Not a press corner.
• Struggles to break down in space and can be a liability against the run at the second level.

Josh Blackwell percentiles vs other Cornerback's (NFL Combine historically - higher value represents better perfomance)