Vanderbilt's most decorated defender arrives at his senior year with receipts: second-team All-SEC as a return man in 2024, a top-10 national PFF coverage grade that same season, and a career-best four interceptions in 2025. Hight is genuinely multi-phase — corner snaps, return duties, even offensive packages in the triple-threat role Clark Lea keeps expanding — and seven career interceptions say the ball skills are real, not situational. However, at 6-0, 188 the frame is light for outside work, and the 2025 line is strange on inspection: four picks against just two passes defensed with tackle totals in the mid-30s, which reads more opportunistic than dominant. He also needs to show the coverage grade of 2024 wasn't the outlier year. Day 3 projection in the 2027 class, where the return-game value is the roster hook and the nickel is his likeliest NFL home.
Full scouting view →| Year | Team | GP | Tot | INT | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Vanderbilt | 12 | 35 | 4 | 2 |
| 2024 | Vanderbilt | 12 | 33 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023 | Vanderbilt | 11 | 38 | 1 | 1 |