DJ Turner II

No. 20 · 4th season

Five seasons, hundreds of cornerbacks, and then there was DJ Turner

Charles Burks has been watching cornerbacks in Cincinnati Bengals practices for five years. Before that, he built his coaching career all the way up from the small-school level. He has seen a lot of players come through.

So when Burks says no cornerback he has ever coached has done what DJ Turner II has done, that means something. Not a polished soundbite for a press release — the kind of thing a position coach says when a player has genuinely surprised him.

For Turner, that kind of recognition lands differently than a highlight or a statistic. A position coach's whole job is watching the same players every day until they stop surprising him. Turner apparently hasn't.

What happens next is the question. The endorsement is in. The rest is on him.

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