Deommodore Lenoir

Born October 6, 1999, in Los Angeles, California, Deommodore Lenoir attended Salesian High School in Los Angeles before playing college football for the University of Oregon Ducks. On September 9, 2020, Lenoir announced his decision to forgo his senior season and declared himself eligible for the 2021 NFL Draft. He received an invitation to play in the 2021 East-West Shrine Bowl before it was cancelled due to COVID-19. NFL.com lead analyst Lance Zierlein projected Lenoir as a sixth or seventh-round pick, while Bleacher Report ranked him as the fifteenth-best cornerback prospect and projected him as a fourth-round selection. The San Francisco 49ers selected Lenoir in the fifth round with the 172nd overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, making him the second cornerback drafted by the team and the twenty-fifth cornerback selected overall. He signed a four-year, $3.76 million rookie contract. Strengths include exceptional instincts and ball skills demonstrated by his eight career interceptions, physical tackling ability at 200 pounds despite standing just five feet ten inches tall, outstanding versatility allowing him to excel in both man and zone coverage, and impressive durability evidenced by starting sixty-four of seventy-nine career games. During the 2022 playoffs, Lenoir emerged as a postseason star, recording interceptions in back-to-back playoff games against the Seattle Seahawks in the Wild Card Round and the Dallas Cowboys in the Divisional Round, helping propel San Fran…