MOBILE, Ala. — Quiny­on Mitchell has plen­ty of rea­sons to smile this week, but for at least a moment after Tuesday’s Senior Bowl prac­tice, he couldn’t help but acknowl­edge a bad taste in his mouth.

The tal­ent­ed cor­ner­back from Tole­do spent most of the day shin­ing on a field full of tal­ent­ed receivers and defen­sive backs. But late in Wednesday’s pro­ceed­ings, Michi­gan receiv­er Roman Wil­son beat him off the line then blast­ed to the out­side for an easy com­ple­tion as Mitchell stumbled.

The pair has been com­pli­men­ta­ry of each oth­er this week, but Mitchell wants revenge on Thursday.

“He got me at the end. I didn’t real­ly like that,” Mitchell said. “I’m feel­in’ salty about that. He’s got­ta catch me tomorrow.”

Oppos­ing receivers haven’t caught much on Mitchell this week.

The 6‑foot, 193-pound cor­ner­back put togeth­er a dom­i­nant sea­son for the Rock­ets, but did it in the Mid-Amer­i­can Con­fer­ence and play­ing pre­dom­i­nant­ly off cov­er­age. In 2022, Mitchell had five inter­cep­tions for Tole­do and returned two of them for touch­downs. Teams learned their les­son and chal­lenged him far less fre­quent­ly this past fall.

This week, NFL clubs have asked about his abil­i­ty to play press man, and he’s responded.

“Com­ing here and show­ing I can play press man, it shows I can com­pete against the best,” he said. “When­ev­er you throw at me, I’m going to chal­lenge you. … In our scheme, by best way to impact the game was to play off. But I work on press man at prac­tice. My team­mate across from me, Chris McDon­ald, he played a lot of press.”

Mitchell entered the week wide­ly con­sid­ered by eval­u­a­tors and draft ana­lysts as a poten­tial first-round pick. NFL Net­works’ Daniel Jere­mi­ah had him ranked No. 19 over­all on Wednes­day morning.

The Senior Bowl week has only increased his stock. A cor­ner­back might not be the most pop­u­lar pick among Bron­cos fans in the first round, but Mitchell and a group of oth­ers might tempt coach Sean Pay­ton and gen­er­al man­ag­er George Paton come April.

Oth­er obser­va­tions from Wednesday:

First-round poten­tial 

DT T’Vondre Sweat, Texas. Sweat is a force. There’s real­ly no oth­er way to say it. He’s been almost impos­si­ble to con­tain in one-on-one sit­u­a­tions. Sweat didn’t weigh in at the begin­ning of the event, but said Wednes­day he’s not con­cerned about his weight and that he played the entire sea­son at 360–365 pounds for the Longhorns.

“Y’all seen me this year,” Sweat said. “I can do it all.”

Sweat’s pro­duc­tion and abil­i­ty to impact the mid­dle of an oppos­ing offense is easy to see on film. So teams, he said, have most­ly asked him about how much he loves the game.

His answer?

“I have some­thing to prove every day,” he said. “I was a three-star recruit com­ing out of high school. So I’ve got to prove myself every day. Just because I won the Out­land Tro­phy or the Big 12 title, well I’m still here. I’m still here com­pet­ing. So I’ve got to prove something.”

Poten­tial Bron­cos fit

ILB Pay­ton Wil­son, North Car­oli­na State. The Bron­cos thought per­haps they had a future Mike line­backer when they draft­ed Drew Sanders in the third round last spring. Sanders showed flash­es dur­ing his rook­ie sea­son, but Pay­ton acknowl­edged it’s unclear at this point whether Sanders will play inside or on the edge going forward.

Wil­son missed all but two games of the 2021 sea­son due to a shoul­der injury, but has played in 23 games over the past two sea­sons and racked up 138 tack­les (17.5 for loss) and six sacks in 2023.

“I’ve dealt with injuries my entire career, so I play every sin­gle snap like it’s my last,” said Wil­son, who clocked 20.27 miles per hour on the GPS on Tues­day despite play­ing at 6‑foot‑4 and 234 pounds.

Wil­son told The Post he’s been answer­ing ques­tions about his injury his­to­ry the entire week.

“That’s the biggest what-if. Every­body asks me about it,” he said. “The last two years I’ve stayed healthy and I think I’ve found a real­ly good bal­ance of how to do that. The way I play, I play so hard and fear­less that I had to find a good bal­ance between nutri­tion, main­te­nance pro­grams and then know­ing what weight I can play at and stay healthy and still play the way I want to play. …

“I tell peo­ple all the time, when I got to col­lege I was just play­ing ball. I was liv­ing it like high school, but I didn’t tru­ly under­stand the nutri­tion, the main­te­nance required to stay healthy for 12 full games and at the next lev­el 17-plus. I’ve got into the pre­hab and rehab and my nutri­tion is the most impor­tant thing for me.”

A year ago, Sanders got some first-round buzz and end­ed up last­ing until the third round, where Den­ver hap­pi­ly pounced. Per­haps they’ll hope for a repeat this spring.

Famil­iar face 

OT Roger Rosen­garten, Wash­ing­ton. Rosen­garten played his high school ball at Val­or Chris­t­ian before four years at Wash­ing­ton. The 6–6, 311-pounder start­ed at right tack­le the past two years for Kalen DeBoer and helped the Huskies to the nation­al title game this past year.

He said he thinks he can play right tack­le or left tack­le in the NFL.

“I’m tak­ing any infor­ma­tion I can get,” Rosen­garten told The Post. “We’re out here with NFL coach­es. They know what it takes to win blocks in pass and run and every scheme.”

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