D’Angelo Ponds, South Florida product who won title with Indiana, prepares for NFL draft

If there’s one thing NFL scouts and executives will nitpick on Indiana cornerback D’Angelo Ponds, it’s his size. A member of loaded state championship-winning high school football teams of Chaminade-Madonna, Ponds was largely overlooked by college football teams in the 2023 recruiting class on the sole basis that he was small. The next two months before the late April draft will determine how much his diminutive size is weighed by NFL teams versus his elite speed, tenacity and ball skills.