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Chiefs scouting report: UCF Knights CB Brandon Adams

UCF Knights cornerback Brandon Adams would be an ideal target for the Kansas City #Chiefs in the 2025 NFL draft.

The Kansas City Chiefs hit on several cornerback selections in recent drafts, and those young, talented defenders played a massive role in the team winning back-to-back Super Bowls.

The Chiefs should still add more cornerback depth in the 2025 NFL draft to stay healthy and cost-effective in the defensive backfield.

UCF lists cornerback Brandon Adams at 6 foot 3 inches, 190 pounds, but he’s likely closer to 6 foot 2 inches according to the measurements Dane Brugler from The Athletic used in his cornerback summer preview.

Either way, Adams possesses the size and arm length to present a significant obstacle for most NFL wide receivers. He projects as a mid-Day 3 selection in the upcoming draft.

Adams uses his long arms to jam and re-route receivers at the line of scrimmage. His independent hand usage is more advanced than what many prospects put on film, but there’s still room for him to improve the accuracy of his punches.

Adams moves surprisingly well for a tall cornerback. He recovers from false steps with quick, corrective footwork to mirror the wide receiver’s release. He takes advantage of the sideline as an extra defender on outside releases, shrinking throwing windows. Adams accelerates quickly to stay attached to receivers on vertical routes. He rarely surrenders open downfield throws in man coverage.

Adams’ large frame makes it hard to decelerate and stay attached to the receiver on comeback and curl routes. He gets grabby on these plays, which will lead to penalties in the NFL. Despite his impressive physical tools, Adams doesn’t deconstruct blocks at a high level. He knows he must improve as a run defender before entering the league.

UCF faces Cincinnati at home on Oct. 12 at 2:30 p.m. CST. The Bearcats feature several NFL prospects on offense, including quarterback Brendan Sorsby, wide receiver Xzavier Henderson, and tight end Joe Royer.

Brandon Adams rallies to stop Serhii Bohachuk in Round 8

Brandon Adams stopped Serhii Bohachuk in Round 8 of their junior middleweight fight Thursday in Puerto Rico.

Brandon Adams turned defeat into victory with two punches Thursday night.

The one-time title challenger, face to face with big puncher Serhii Bohachuk, was behind on the cards and slipping on a wet ring in Puerto Rico with time winding down when the tide turned instantaneously.

Adams hurt Bohachuk with a left hook late in Round 8 and moments later ended the scheduled 10-round junior middleweight fight with the same punch, maintaining his contender status in the process.

Bohachuk, who had stopped his first 18 opponents, will have to rebuild.

“Man, I just tried to dig deep regardless of whatever was happening during that fight,” Adams said. “It was me against him. I had to embody that and use all the strength I had to connect on those punches.”

The conditions inside the outdoor ring in Guaynaba weren’t ideal, as both fighters had trouble with their footing.

And Adams was stalked by the aggressive, hard-punching Ukrainian the entire fight, which evidently began to wear him down. Adams alternately engaged Bohachuk toe-to-toe and moved in and out, a strategy that was effective at times.

However, he appeared to take more and more power shots as the fight progressed. Adams, who lost a point in Round 3 for low blows, was down on the cards 69-93, 68-64 and 68-64 after seven rounds.

Of course, that didn’t matter given the events of Round 8. Bohachuk (18-1, 18 KOs) seemed to be in control when Adams rocked him with the first left hook. The second one knocked him into the ropes and down, hurting him badly.

Bohachuk was able to get up but referee Ramon Pena, convinced the 25-year-old couldn’t continue, stopped the fight. The official time was 2:47.

Adams has now won two consecutive fights since he was nearly shut out in a bid to take Jermall Charlo’s middleweight title in June 2019. The Los Angeles fighter stopped Sonny Duversonne in two rounds in December.

Bohachuk had never been past six rounds before Thursday.

Brandon Adams rallies to stop Serhii Bohachuk in Round 8

Brandon Adams stopped Serhii Bohachuk in Round 8 of their junior middleweight fight Thursday in Puerto Rico.

Brandon Adams turned defeat into victory with two punches Thursday night.

The one-time title challenger, face to face with big puncher Serhii Bohachuk, was behind on the cards and slipping on a wet ring in Puerto Rico with time winding down when the tide turned instantaneously.

Adams hurt Bohachuk with a left hook late in Round 8 and moments later ended the scheduled 10-round junior middleweight fight with the same punch, maintaining his contender status in the process.

Bohachuk, who had stopped his first 18 opponents, will have to rebuild.

“Man, I just tried to dig deep regardless of whatever was happening during that fight,” Adams said. “It was me against him. I had to embody that and use all the strength I had to connect on those punches.”

The conditions inside the outdoor ring in Guaynaba weren’t ideal, as both fighters had trouble with their footing.

And Adams was stalked by the aggressive, hard-punching Ukrainian the entire fight, which evidently began to wear him down. Adams alternately engaged Bohachuk toe-to-toe and moved in and out, a strategy that was effective at times.

However, he appeared to take more and more power shots as the fight progressed. Adams, who lost a point in Round 3 for low blows, was down on the cards 69-93, 68-64 and 68-64 after seven rounds.

Of course, that didn’t matter given the events of Round 8. Bohachuk (18-1, 18 KOs) seemed to be in control when Adams rocked him with the first left hook. The second one knocked him into the ropes and down, hurting him badly.

Bohachuk was able to get up but referee Ramon Pena, convinced the 25-year-old couldn’t continue, stopped the fight. The official time was 2:47.

Adams has now won two consecutive fights since he was nearly shut out in a bid to take Jermall Charlo’s middleweight title in June 2019. The Los Angeles fighter stopped Sonny Duversonne in two rounds in December.

Bohachuk had never been past six rounds before Thursday.

Serhii Bohachuk, Brandon Adams make weight for NBCSN fight

Serhii Bohachuk and Brandon Adams on Wednesday made weight for their junior middleweight fight Thursday on NBC Sports Network.

Junior middleweight contender Serhii Bohachuk and former title challenger Brandon Adams made weight for their fight Thursday in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico (NBC Sports Network).

They both weighed 153.8 pouinds. .2 under the division limit.

Bohachuk, a former amateur star for his native Ukraine, has garnered considerable attention by stopping all 18 of his opponents but this is a step-up in opposition.

Adams (22-3, 14 KOs) is a solid boxer-puncher who lost a decision to 160-pound titleholder Jermall Charlo in June 2019, after which he moved down in weight. He’s coming off a second-round knockout of Sonny Duversonne in December.

Serhii Bohachuk (left) and Brandon Adams made weight for their fight Saturday in Puerto Rico. Tom Hogan / Hoganphotos-Ring City USA

The fight was scheduled to take place on Dec. 3 but Bohachuk had to pull out after contracting COVID-19.

The card begins at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT on NBC Sports Network. The undercard fights will be streamed on Twitch beginning at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT.

The weigh-in results for other fights on the card are as follows:

  • Danielito Zorrilla (139.6) vs. Ruslan Madiyev 139.6, 10 rounds, junior welterweights.
  • Bryan Chevalier (127.4) vs. Carlos Zambrano (127.0), eight rounds, junior lightweights.
  • Fernando Vargas Jr. (159.8) vs. Salome Flores Torres (162.0), four rounds, super middleweights.
  • Harold Laguna (135.2) vs. Darwin Alvarez (138.8), four rounds, junior welterweights.
  • Jorge Diaz (146.0) vs. Felipe Munoz (143.0), four rounds, welterweights.

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Serhii Bohachuk, Brandon Adams make weight for NBCSN fight

Serhii Bohachuk and Brandon Adams on Wednesday made weight for their junior middleweight fight Thursday on NBC Sports Network.

Junior middleweight contender Serhii Bohachuk and former title challenger Brandon Adams made weight for their fight Thursday in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico (NBC Sports Network).

They both weighed 153.8 pouinds. .2 under the division limit.

Bohachuk, a former amateur star for his native Ukraine, has garnered considerable attention by stopping all 18 of his opponents but this is a step-up in opposition.

Adams (22-3, 14 KOs) is a solid boxer-puncher who lost a decision to 160-pound titleholder Jermall Charlo in June 2019, after which he moved down in weight. He’s coming off a second-round knockout of Sonny Duversonne in December.

Serhii Bohachuk (left) and Brandon Adams made weight for their fight Saturday in Puerto Rico. Tom Hogan / Hoganphotos-Ring City USA

The fight was scheduled to take place on Dec. 3 but Bohachuk had to pull out after contracting COVID-19.

The card begins at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT on NBC Sports Network. The undercard fights will be streamed on Twitch beginning at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT.

The weigh-in results for other fights on the card are as follows:

  • Danielito Zorrilla (139.6) vs. Ruslan Madiyev 139.6, 10 rounds, junior welterweights.
  • Bryan Chevalier (127.4) vs. Carlos Zambrano (127.0), eight rounds, junior lightweights.
  • Fernando Vargas Jr. (159.8) vs. Salome Flores Torres (162.0), four rounds, super middleweights.
  • Harold Laguna (135.2) vs. Darwin Alvarez (138.8), four rounds, junior welterweights.
  • Jorge Diaz (146.0) vs. Felipe Munoz (143.0), four rounds, welterweights.

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Fight Week: Claressa Shields vs. Marie-Eve Dicaire headlines PPV card

Fight Week: Claressa Shields-Marie-Eve Dicaire headlines a pay-perv-view card on Friday.

FIGHT WEEK

Three-division titleholder Claressa Shields returns to the boxing ring against Marie-Eve Dicaire in an all-woman pay-per-view show Friday night in Shields’ hometown of Flint, Mich.

***

SERHII BOHACHUK (18-0, 18 KOs)
VS. BRANDON ADAMS (22-3, 14 KOs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdxDXZrpEs

  • When: Thursday, Feb. 27
  • Where: Municipal Boxing Gym Felix Pagan Pintor, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  • TV/Stream: NBC Sports Network
  • Division: Junior middleweight (154 pounds)
  • At stake: No titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: None
  • Odds: NA
  • Also on the card: Danielito Zorrilla vs. Ruslan Madiyev, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Prediction: Bohachuk UD
  • Background: Bohachuk couldn’t have had a better start to his professional career, having stopped all 18 of his opponents in six rounds or less since turning pro in 2017. However, Adams, a former title challenger, represents a step up in opposition for the 25-year-old Ukrainian. The Los Angeles resident, a solid boxer-puncher, lost a wide decision to middleweight titleholder Jermall Charlo in June 2019 but bounced back to stop Sanny Duversonne in two rounds this past December. Bohachuk was last in the ring last September, when he knocked out Alejandro Davila in six rounds in Mexico. Bohachuk is ranked by two of the four major sanctioning bodies, Adams by one.

***

CLARESSA SHIELDS (10-0, 2 KOs) VS.
MARIE-EVE DICAIRE (17-0, 0 KOs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1P0kH0_w_U

  • When: Friday, March 5
  • Where: Dort Financial Center, Flint, Mich.
  • TV/Stream: Pay-per-view (FITE TV)
  • Division: Junior middleweight (154 pounds)
  • At stake: Shields’ WBC and WBO, Dicaire’s IBF and vacant WBA titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: None
  • Odds: NA
  • Also on the card: Raquel Miller vs. TBA, 10 rounds, junior middlweights; Danielle Perkins vs. Monika Harrison, six rounds, heavyweights; Nadia Meknouzi vs. Samantha Pill, eight rounds, light heavyweights
  • Prediction: Shields UD
  • Background: Shields and Dicaire are the first women to headline a pay-per-view card since Laila Ali outointed Jacqui Frazier in 2001. The fight was originally set for May but was postponed multiple times, which accounts for Shields’ long layoff. She last fought in January of last year, when she defeated Ivan Habazin by a near-shutout decision to capture two vacant junior middleweight titles. DiCaire, who has been out of the ring since November 2019, will be making the fourth defense of her title. Shields is thrilled to be in the featured fight of a pay-per-view event. She told ESPN: “I’m super excited to be having my first pay-per-view card and I’m hoping that everybody who has been waiting on me to fight, everybody that supports me, that they all get behind me and get behind the women athlete movement and just join us because not only are we yelling equal pay, equal opportunity, equal TV time, we’re also working just as hard. We’re equally working.” Shields has begun training for her MMA debut.

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TONY YOKA (9-0, 7 KOs)
VS. JOEL DJEKO (17-2-1, 8 KOs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1MsVzZHudU

  • When: Friday, March 5
  • Where: H Arena, Nantes, France
  • TV/Stream: ESPN+
  • Division: Heavyweight (unlimited)
  • At stake: No major titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: None
  • Odds: NA
  • Also on the card: Estelle Yoka Mossely vs. Verena Kaiser, 10 rounds, lightweights
  • Prediction: Yoka UD
  • Background: Yoka, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist, is looking to take another step toward his first shot at a world title. The 6-foot-7 Frenchman is coming off a shutout decision over Christian Hammer this past November, also at the H Arena. The 28-year-old Parisian has yet to fight outside his native country. Joel Tambwe Djeko is a 31-year-old Belgian who is based in Essex, England. He’s coming off a first-round knockout of John Cortez in January of last year, his eighth consecutive victory.

Fight Week: Claressa Shields vs. Marie-Eve Dicaire headlines PPV card

Fight Week: Claressa Shields-Marie-Eve Dicaire headlines a pay-perv-view card on Friday.

FIGHT WEEK

Three-division titleholder Claressa Shields returns to the boxing ring against Marie-Eve Dicaire in an all-woman pay-per-view show Friday night in Shields’ hometown of Flint, Mich.

***

SERHII BOHACHUK (18-0, 18 KOs)
VS. BRANDON ADAMS (22-3, 14 KOs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdxDXZrpEs

  • When: Thursday, Feb. 27
  • Where: Municipal Boxing Gym Felix Pagan Pintor, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  • TV/Stream: NBC Sports Network
  • Division: Junior middleweight (154 pounds)
  • At stake: No titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: None
  • Odds: NA
  • Also on the card: Danielito Zorrilla vs. Ruslan Madiyev, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Prediction: Bohachuk UD
  • Background: Bohachuk couldn’t have had a better start to his professional career, having stopped all 18 of his opponents in six rounds or less since turning pro in 2017. However, Adams, a former title challenger, represents a step up in opposition for the 25-year-old Ukrainian. The Los Angeles resident, a solid boxer-puncher, lost a wide decision to middleweight titleholder Jermall Charlo in June 2019 but bounced back to stop Sanny Duversonne in two rounds this past December. Bohachuk was last in the ring last September, when he knocked out Alejandro Davila in six rounds in Mexico. Bohachuk is ranked by two of the four major sanctioning bodies, Adams by one.

***

CLARESSA SHIELDS (10-0, 2 KOs) VS.
MARIE-EVE DICAIRE (17-0, 0 KOs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1P0kH0_w_U

  • When: Friday, March 5
  • Where: Dort Financial Center, Flint, Mich.
  • TV/Stream: Pay-per-view (FITE TV)
  • Division: Junior middleweight (154 pounds)
  • At stake: Shields’ WBC and WBO, Dicaire’s IBF and vacant WBA titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: None
  • Odds: NA
  • Also on the card: Raquel Miller vs. TBA, 10 rounds, junior middlweights; Danielle Perkins vs. Monika Harrison, six rounds, heavyweights; Nadia Meknouzi vs. Samantha Pill, eight rounds, light heavyweights
  • Prediction: Shields UD
  • Background: Shields and Dicaire are the first women to headline a pay-per-view card since Laila Ali outointed Jacqui Frazier in 2001. The fight was originally set for May but was postponed multiple times, which accounts for Shields’ long layoff. She last fought in January of last year, when she defeated Ivan Habazin by a near-shutout decision to capture two vacant junior middleweight titles. DiCaire, who has been out of the ring since November 2019, will be making the fourth defense of her title. Shields is thrilled to be in the featured fight of a pay-per-view event. She told ESPN: “I’m super excited to be having my first pay-per-view card and I’m hoping that everybody who has been waiting on me to fight, everybody that supports me, that they all get behind me and get behind the women athlete movement and just join us because not only are we yelling equal pay, equal opportunity, equal TV time, we’re also working just as hard. We’re equally working.” Shields has begun training for her MMA debut.

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TONY YOKA (9-0, 7 KOs)
VS. JOEL DJEKO (17-2-1, 8 KOs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1MsVzZHudU

  • When: Friday, March 5
  • Where: H Arena, Nantes, France
  • TV/Stream: ESPN+
  • Division: Heavyweight (unlimited)
  • At stake: No major titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: None
  • Odds: NA
  • Also on the card: Estelle Yoka Mossely vs. Verena Kaiser, 10 rounds, lightweights
  • Prediction: Yoka UD
  • Background: Yoka, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist, is looking to take another step toward his first shot at a world title. The 6-foot-7 Frenchman is coming off a shutout decision over Christian Hammer this past November, also at the H Arena. The 28-year-old Parisian has yet to fight outside his native country. Joel Tambwe Djeko is a 31-year-old Belgian who is based in Essex, England. He’s coming off a first-round knockout of John Cortez in January of last year, his eighth consecutive victory.