Three receivers from the 2026 NFL draft class averaged over three yards per route run.

In 2025, it was McKay-Limon, Cardinal Tate, and Brennan Thompson, Mississippi State.

Brennan Thompson, 5'9, 164 pounds.

And outside of the top 10, even outside of the top 15 consensus rankings at

wide receiver for a lot of sources. So who is this? Who is Brennan Thompson? Definitely, first

and foremost, this is a speed threat, random 426. And my gosh, the speed shows up on film. I think we have to start with

acknowledging the fact that the breakout came in his age 22 season, his fourth collegiate season.

And before that, there was very little production. To be fair, though, he's an extremely small player who was trying to

catch on at a big school at Texas, where he's originally recruited and then at Oklahoma,

before eventually landing at Mississippi State, where he had his year four breakout.

It looks to me like there was some growing pains, some acclimation period here where

Oklahoma was trying to maybe put him in the slot, 40% slot rate his first year there.

These schools are trying to make sense of in the slot, 40% slot rate his first year there. These schools are

trying to make sense of what this player was. Only eight receptions across his first two seasons.

Those eight receptions did go for 273 yards and two touchdowns. So there were some flashes early on that this could be a big play threat,

that the speed was very, very real. But it wasn't until year four that we really saw it,

57 receptions for 1,054 yards. Really, really phenomenal stuff. And I'm telling you the film is even better than the

stats. And the stats are good. So I've got some kind of obscure stats to give you an idea of

just how good the deep threat was that was presented by this player.

And I want to, what I'm going to focus on first is his performance versus press coverage.

And I think that that is relevant because this was a player who existed on the outside and rarely was playing in the slot.

He was spending almost all of his time lined up out wide on the right side of was playing in the slot. He was spending almost all of his time

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