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My only quibble is I suspect you are choosing Sherman due to his NFL mastery rather than his Stanford apprenticeship.  Sherman struggled after his transition from WR and often wasn't the best DB on the field during his two year stint at Stanford. 

In 2009 Sherman was still learning to play CB, though he was still easily our best CB that year. In 2010 Sherman was extremely good, though that was widely missed by many Stanford fans.
His stats in 2010: 50 tackles, 4 INTs, and 13 passes defended. More importantly, teams quit throwing to his side of the field - the true sign of a great CB.
In 2009 he had 62 tackles, 2 INTs, 10 passes defended.

The only other CB candidate I saw listed in this thread was Terrence Brown. Brown had two good years: 2011 with 43 tackles, 1 INT, and 6 passes defended; 2012 with 65 tackles, 1 INT, and 10 passes defended. However, we noticed him a lot because teams were still throwing at him. I don't think he was as good as Sherman.

Carter in 2014 41 tackles, 1 INT, and 10 passes defended ... and a fair amount of having teams look to the other side of the field.
In 2013 he had 59 tackles, 1 INT and 8 passes defended.

I think the only other possible CB candidate was Wopamo Osaisai. He developed into a pretty good CB as well. In 2008 he had 67 tackles (was too many tackles by our defensive backfield that year - and previously), 0 INTs, 8 passes defended. In 2007 he had 45 tackles, 1 INT, and 8 passes defended. Based on my memory of the sum total of his contributions, he wouldn't beat out the other three (though he was faster).

Finally, while it won't make the cut, Ronnie Harris is quietly on pace for a pretty good single season - though picking up some INTs would help. At what we hope is about the halfway point of the season, he has 25 tackles, 0 INTs, and 9 passes broken up ... and opposing teams starting to go after Holder instead of his side. If he were to get to 18 passes broken up that would be in the region of the national leaders over the past several season (currently he's tied for ninth).

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My only quibble is I suspect you are choosing Sherman due to his NFL mastery rather than his Stanford apprenticeship.  Sherman struggled after his transition from WR and often wasn't the best DB on the field during his two year stint at Stanford. 

In 2009 Sherman was still learning to play CB, though he was still easily our best CB that year. In 2010 Sherman was extremely good, though that was widely missed by many Stanford fans.
His stats in 2010: 50 tackles, 4 INTs, and 13 passes defended. More importantly, teams quit throwing to his side of the field - the true sign of a great CB.
In 2009 he had 62 tackles, 2 INTs, 10 passes defended.

The only other CB candidate I saw listed in this thread was Terrence Brown. Brown had two good years: 2011 with 43 tackles, 1 INT, and 6 passes defended; 2012 with 65 tackles, 1 INT, and 10 passes defended. However, we noticed him a lot because teams were still throwing at him. I don't think he was as good as Sherman.

Carter in 2014 41 tackles, 1 INT, and 10 passes defended ... and a fair amount of having teams look to the other side of the field.
In 2013 he had 59 tackles, 1 INT and 8 passes defended.

I think the only other possible CB candidate was Wopamo Osaisai. He developed into a pretty good CB as well. In 2008 he had 67 tackles (was too many tackles by our defensive backfield that year - and previously), 0 INTs, 8 passes defended. In 2007 he had 45 tackles, 1 INT, and 8 passes defended. Based on my memory of the sum total of his contributions, he wouldn't beat out the other three (though he was faster).

Finally, while it won't make the cut, Ronnie Harris is quietly on pace for a pretty good single season - though picking up some INTs would help. At what we hope is about the halfway point of the season, he has 25 tackles, 0 INTs, and 9 passes broken up ... and opposing teams starting to go after Holder instead of his side. If he were to get to 18 passes broken up that would be in the region of the national leaders over the past several season (currently he's tied for ninth).