Miami safety Kam Kinchens says he's most looking forward to facing Mahomes and Rodgers

Miami safety Kam Kinchens sits down with Rick Spielman and Ryan Wilson at the NFL Combine.

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All right we’re here with Cam kitchens safety University of Miami and Rick I know you’re excited to talk about Cam and I think it’s for the same reasons that that I love the way he plays uh Rick uses a saying he plays with his hair on fire I think that pertains to

The way cam played last season yes he does and just phenomenal watching you on tape um but just wanted to get started with you um why do you think you should be the number one safety coming off the board this year my ball production first though you know some people probably had

More picks Than Me overall but what I did in two years you know nobody else in the class did so and I think I I bring everything to the table you know I can go out there and cover tight ends cover slots I could go on the box and be your

In your run support and then I can play the post exceptional so can you tell us what’s the biggest strength of your game and what do you think you need to work on to be successful at the next level I think my instincts you know you’re not

Having too many bad players on tape you know my average is kind of you know good and I have Splash players in there I think the thing I can work on the most is is probably open field tackling you know most people might say I do it well

But you know it’s a room of improvement you’re the last line of defense you can’t let nothing to get behind you so what do you enjoy more if you’re playing deep safety uh pass break up on a deep post one-on-one or if you’re coming downhill and you’re blowing up the

Running back what makes you feel better I don’t like pass bre CU I like catching picks you know that’s why I didn’t want to say interception that’s why I want to make it a little tough for you if the ball there you know I’m trying I’m

Trying to pick the ball off but he’ll probably be catching a pick because you know I’m trying to get a ball back to the offense so they can score some more points but um you know pass break up or making a tackle I think making a tackle

You know just blowing up the running back coming downhill yeah okay does that do you think that sets the tone for the stadium for your team when you make a big hit coming up yeah and and it let it let the running back know you know

You’re not the biggest guy here you know I’m coming to show you too so all right Rick and I talked a lot about you in the fall I want to ask you about the UNC game and mold and my memories is a little foggy but I know that tzw Walker ran a

Post and scored a touchdown were you in coverage on that play or no which the one look I don’t know if we we were trying to determine whether it was a busted coverage or were you supposed to Big Post Yeah it was in the Red Zone I

Think oh no that’s a different one then in the red zone no was I was doubling three so okay so wasn’t you no okay okay what about Drake May facing him how was that great you know when you yeah when you look when you look everywhere you

Know one of the top rated quarterbacks in the country so there always a great opportunity to go against him when you’re studying these quarterbacks and you played against some good quarterbacks how do you get prepared for those guys because the one thing that shows up on tape especially with routes

In front of you is your anticipation skills and that’s why you have so much ball production but as you get prepared during the week to face these quarterbacks and you’re going to see some of these guys playing in the NFL what is the secret or the key ingredient

For a safety to get ready for a quarterback like a drake May first it depends on your your scheme you know what y’all do a lot you know y want to drop back and man a lot you want to drop back in zone a lot or you going to

Send a lot of pressure so you got to kind of find those plays that kind of fit your scheme against that quarterback so you know what he does when that play comes up so if he’s a man you know and you got a one high he might try to look

You off to go to to his where he actually want to go then you know you got some quarterbacks that that fear pressure to where when when they when they sense pressure or see it about to come they going to say set go and they going to go automatically to where they

Want to go at or they you know some you know if it’s a 3 by one and you know you have a backside Corner they love going to the backside so it’s like simple stuff to uh what you going to do in these scenarios and then it’s always

About you don’t want to watch it in the whole detail because your defense don’t do everything the other defense did so you want to you know kind of key in on what y’all do similar and what the quarterback did to that defense I want to ask you sort of related to what Rick

Just asked you when you get to the league uh in a few months now what quarterback are you most interested in going up against and not a pbu with intercepting when you have that opportunity who’s at the top of the list Aaron Rogers and Pat Mahomes probably

Yeah Aaron Rogers got a couple of mentions uh uh yesterday we talked so what I’m assuming is a AFC East team doesn’t draft you then you don’t want to go there because you may not play against Aon Rogers or no I’m all good whatever I get opportunity don’t put

Words in C’s mouth I always do I put words in his mouth all the time all right Rick you want to ask C another question before we go to the social media part of the interview here that steo has us doing if there is one defensive you watching the league that

Said man I wish I was that guy or I want to be that guy or I think I’m going to be that guy what safety do you think your game resembles the most probably Antonio Winfield and Mah H high so he’s known Antonio Winfield Antonio’s in high

School because he played with his son in Minnesota he’s he’s everywhere he’s you can see him in the box like when I watch his F you can see him in the Box One play you can see him in the slot One play you can see him in the post he’s

Just he’s so active and communicating and he going to get the ball you know and he’s one of those people punching the ball out stripping the ball you know making big hits going going to make picks so love watching Rick is Kim’s bigger than Antoine right yes yeah is he

Faster are you f you faster I don’t I know watch Play We we’ll find out in a couple days all right so maybe this is the same answer if so you can just say it but if there’s another guy growing up that was your football goat not necessarily safety no at

Re okay you know what’s funny yesterday we talked about of edge rushers and we have two Troy palalo fans out of the edge rushers which I I thought that was Ed Reed and Troy Ed was drafted 2002 Troy was drafted 2003 they’re both in Hall of Fame for obvious reasons all

Right Rick I’m going to ask you I’m just going to ask you uh something we do for social media here we want you to build the ultimate defensive back so I’m going to give you a category and you tell me which player yeah past or present fits

That role that makes the perfect defense now this is going to touch your mental quickness okay so I could see it on the field but can you ask these really tough questions that we’re going to be throwing your way it could be anybody anybody anybody yeah I mean not the rock

But someone who plays football so uh all right so ultimate we’ll say ultimate safety the plays the positions you play size Derwin James a dur okay all right he’s off to a good start Speed you can’t really tell who fast so it could be anybody Mel hide Mel hide

That’s perfect all right strength strength I still go Derwin Derwin again okay all right ball hackey Ed Reed that’s an easy one toughness Sean Taylor that’s a great one football IQ Ed Reed that’s when you say cam kitchens that’s that’s the cam kitchens answer I could

Have said cam kitchen for a bunch of them that’s that’s the right answer cam thank you so much for joining us here CBS Sports HQ good luck this week and we are looking forward to seeing you next year in the NFL thank you