Tarik Cohen is one of the more enjoyable players in this year’s NFL draft. A 5’6 product of a small school, North Carolina A&T, Cohen ran a 4.42-second 40-yard dash at the league’s scouting combine. He’s a human lightning bolt on the field, and he does cool flips that look better-suited to gymnastics than football.
Bears pick Tarik Cohen went viral in college for these wild backflip catch stunts
Cohen can do things with his body that most humans cannot do.
Here’s Cohen catching two footballs while mid-backflip:
Watching him do this makes my whole body hurt:
And fear not: Cohen’s skills definitely transfer over to the gridiron.
SB Nation’s Harry Lyles talked to Cohen at the NFL Combine. He explained what he’ll bring to the team that would pick him — the Bears, as it happens.
“My vision and the fact that I can make a play with the ball without getting like 20 carries a game,” Cohen said. “The suddenness to make an explosive play I feel like will transition well.”
Cohen’s an interesting guy off the field, too. He’s got a keen sense of what he wants to do with his life, and football isn’t the only thing.
“I feel like I want to play at least three years in the league; that’s the average,” Cohen said. “I want to meet the average, get a good name for myself, and then take off in marketing and then do a lot of philanthropy work.”
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