Quote:Because this class is littered with those types of guys. He needs to greatly improve his route running and hand catching. He definitely isn't as good as Robinson or Adams and they are both physical specimens too. He doesn't have nearly the consistency of a Matthews, or the vice hands and catch radius of Beckham or Landry, or the open field jaw dropping speed/agility of Cooks. He's in the tier w/ other nice developmental guys like Richardson, Coleman, and Bryant.


He's still a nice prospect and in a lot of classes he would be a top 5 WR prospect, but in this one he is fringe top 10 at best.

Route running could stand improvement, almost every WR coming out of college needs that. He has the speed. He had a huge amount of YAC VS. LSU AND MSU last season, LSU having always a strong secondary and MSU having two early 2nds (he abused Jonathon Banks whom many wanted last April).Matthews is more polished but there is no reason to think he is behind Cooks, Parker and Co.

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