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if you watch his DET highlight vid you can see he catches everything with his body.  He made some good catches, but they aren't acrobatic or spectacular.  He never had to go up and get it.  Hurns is just a tall guy with decent speed.  He will never be a big game-changing receiver.  Shorts has that potential with his explosiveness and athletic ability.

 

in other words, he doesn't do anything Cecil cant.... but Cecil can do things Hurns cant.

 

LOL. 

 



 

He catches with his hands when he has to. 

 

On this catch vs. Chicago he turned back and made a difficult grab look pretty easy as well:



 

Catching with his hands here again. ^  It's an outside back-shoulder pass. You know the one that Shorts didn't even see when Henne threw it to him the following week.

 

Cecil deserves his spot on the depth chart, and has the edge, but I think Hurns may have him beat in terms of God-given natural athletic talent. Remains to be seen if he'll see it through to it's potential.  Shorts has to work hard(er) to do what he does and he's to be commended for putting in the work. 

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