5 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | All the talk about the NFL draft was how deep the wide receiver class was. And it proved to be with over 35 wide receivers being drafted, 13 in the first two rounds, and six first round wide receivers. |
0:10.2 | These are numbers that we're not used to seeing. So it's going to create an environment where a ton of wide receivers have the potential based on their draft capital and amount of money they're going to be paid to be involved in their offenses. I want to urge you, just like I did with running backs, though, that six and seventh and fifth round wide receivers, although they might |
0:24.3 | work out sometimes, it's not always going to be the case. And in a draft where you saw six first |
0:28.9 | rounders, seventh, second rounders, and three third round picks, there's going to be a lot of capital |
0:33.5 | in those first few rounds at wide receiver that likely have the best opportunity in their |
0:37.6 | offenses to break out. Now, I will say there were eight fifth round picks at wide receiver |
0:41.5 | this year. So I would not be shocked if one or two of them get some playing time. But depending |
0:44.9 | on the pandemic, and this is a big, big question mark for every single rookie wide receiver, |
0:49.4 | every single player, but the rookie wide receivers mainly, they are impacted the most by this |
0:53.2 | pandemic. If the rookie wide receivers do not get training camp, rest assured they are hurt the most |
0:57.1 | compared to the rookie running backs, the rookie quarterbacks, because those wide receivers |
1:00.4 | are not independent of their quarterback or not independent of their offense like a rookie |
1:05.1 | running back is going to be. |
1:06.2 | A rookie running back depends on a lot of instincts and just pure athleticism, whereas |
1:09.5 | although a wide receiver depends on those, they also depend on learning the playbook to getting used to releases on |
1:14.8 | cornerbacks in the NFL and the biggest one, chemistry with their quarterback and new offense. |
1:18.8 | So be very weary if you start to see the preseason canceled and even more camp and |
1:22.3 | OTA activities canceled for these rookie wide receivers. I would knock them all down, including |
1:26.3 | the first rounders. So I'm going to put on the screen right now, just a list of all the wide receivers that were |
1:30.3 | taken in the first four rounds. And then it'll transition into the fifth to the seventh round. |
1:35.5 | So tons of them. I have a chart of 36 wide receivers that were taken. And trust me, just half of those, |
1:40.5 | the first 18 that were taken in the first through fourth rounds, they look like |
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