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Originally Posted by RunKC
Wow dude. I don’t see why you don’t like him. And I’m not homering out bc he’s on our team. You know I’ve liked this guy for about 6 weeks.
I’d compare his athletic profile to Albert Wilson. He’s not as good laterally but he’s much better straight line with explosiveness.
I’m so sick and tired of us drafting these athletes that can’t play football. I’m tired of seeing Albert Wilson drop a lot of passes he should catch, I’m tired of watching Chris Conley and Byron Pringle struggle to beat DB’s bc they can’t sell routes and I’m definitely tired of Mecole Hardman not being about to run routes, make tough catches or win 1v1.
I’ve been begging this team to get a pure route runner who can catch. Begging! Bc if we’ve learned anything it’s that this teams athleticism means dick. Tyreek and Kelce are good bc they are elite athletes and do the little things like running routes/catching the ball well.
This kid has enormous hands which showed 3 drops on 125 targets. He’s got well above average speed at 4.41. His 10 yard is absolutely insane at 1.46 and he has long arms.
Guys. This team needs a Hunter Renfrow or Cooper Kupp badly. Renfrow had 1k yards and 9 TD’s last year with Carr ina year that Waller missed time, Agholor was gone and Ruggs got kicked off the team.
This kid can give us that. He’s a lot better than Renfrow but not at Cupp’s level. I’d say he’s somewhere in between the two.
And at 54 that’s some damn good value
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Even money says he doesn't turn out better than Renfrow.
And Renfrow went in the 5th. I should goddamn hope he's better than him.
Again, guys like Moore go in the 3rd round every year. It's not 'good value' to take this kid at 54. And when you cite a guy like Renfrow, you establish exactly why. And again, this is the EXACT same thing people did when we took De'Anthony Thomas and people said "We need a Darren Sproles!" while ignoring that Sproles went in the 4th because most people with that kind of profile don't become anything approaching that kind of player.
In any other draft a slot receiver w/ good hands but no size and a limited athletic ceiling is a 3rd or 4th round pick. In this draft he SHOULD'VE been. 13 WRs going by pick 54 is ludicrous.
I don't like the pick because he didn't suddenly become larger or more dynamic. He's a safe pick who's not going to solve many problems for us. He's probably WR4 this year and if we continue to dedicate resources to the WR room going forward he probably caps at WR3.
That's not a bad return for a 2nd rounder, but there's just so little ceiling here and that's pretty much how we treated 2/3 of the picks in this draft.