7 Wide Receivers Skyrocketing Up Draft Boards After the NFL Combine

There are a lot of solid rookie wide receivers in this year's NFL draft and after the combine

we just got a whole lot more because in this video we're gonna break down these seven wide

receivers who are skyrocketing up draft boards after what they just did at the NFL combine.

And if you've been paying attention at all you know that this guy was gonna have to be in this

video and he deserves to be the first player that we talk about in Jeff Caldwell out of Cincinnati

for multiple reasons. All right for starters he's six foot five most wide receivers in the NFL

anywhere between six foot maybe six three or six four six foot five so we're talking like

that T Higgins type build at 216 pounds but the most impressive apart about all of this at that

height and weight he runs a four three one 40 time 99th percentile 40 100th percentile

meaning one of the best of all time actually his speed score in terms of looking at your height

your weight and your speed that you ended up running the 40 at the NFL combine second best for

a wide receiver that ever attended the combine. He had the fastest 40 amongst all the wide

receivers and he had the fastest ten yard split his get off the line of scrimmage type speed

amongst any single player at the combine across all positions so it's one thing to be six foot five

two hundred sixteen pounds and run this fast but then he also brought to the table insane jumping

ability his burst at the combine because his burst score according to player profiler 99th percentile

this factors in your broad and your vertical jump he was second amongst all of the wide receivers

at the NFL combine in his vertical jump and second as well in the broad jump so this is the most

athletic wide receiver in this draft so all of those things are pros his testing ability is why he's

rising up the the draft boards after his NFL combine but there are a lot of downsides the profile

of Jeff Caldwell and there's a reason why he probably never heard of this guy unless you're a

fan of Cincinnati football. Now the biggest reasons is his production so for Raz relative athletic

score he scored a perfect ten this is rare that this happens we had to this year at these skill

positions a ten for Mike Washington we talked about in the running back version of this video

so that's fantastic we know that this guy is an elite athlete number one at the 2026 combine

and wider receiver rank but the problem as you can see right here on NFL calm his production

score how he produced in college in this class ranks 27th 27th is pretty bad when there's only

gonna probably be somewhere in the mid 20s and wider receivers drafted this year in the NFL draft

and the reason why his production score was so bad is because he went to linen linen high school

so a small school or college linen college a small school his first three years he did break out

in 2024 with a 12 games played 53 catches for over a thousand yards so that was good to see that

he finally broke out in his third year at a small school but then he ends up transferring two

Cincinnati and he doesn't do much only catches 32 balls on 61 targets so barely a 50%

catch rate doesn't top 500 yards now part of this is the fact that he's not playing on like the

greatest team in the country with the greatest quarterback play but at the end of the day he was

kind of like an afterthought in this offense there wasn't much production there he probably

would have been an undrafted at best 7th round pick in the draft if he didn't come out and test

so great but now most likely he's gonna go a little higher now we don't have a big sample of him

facing good competition because his first three years are at a very small school and then this

past year when he actually faced some good competition it wasn't great a 14th ranked Iowa state

one catch for 21 yards Utah 24th ranked one catch for 11 yards BYU 11th ranked in the nation two

catches for 20 yards so he did good in his third year against small school competition which is

most likely for the most part like some D3 players and then he comes to Cincinnati he's now at a D1

program and in his 12 games that he got to play with Cincinnati he's not doing much especially

against a better competition if you wanted to watch his tape to see what type of player he is you

could look at the Arizona game where he ends up going for let's pull it up right here the Arizona

game five catches for 68 yards his best game was against I don't even know what this is BGSU five

catches 109 yards now I'm very curious to see what this team is bowling green there you go the

bowling green falcons that's where his best game is so this is the problem now that you actually

have this elite athletic testing you can talk yourself in if you're an NFL team in the fifth maybe

six round of the draft and taking this guy since there's not much left in what is already nothing

deepest class at other position so to me Jeff called well has to be a winner I mean when you test

this good at the combine you're definitely going to be rising up draft boards in terms of like what

this guy does outside of the freak athletic ability he's long and fluid the combine numbers just

prove that as well he's also a real end zone threat he had 28 touchdowns on 124 career catches in

college also tracks the ball pretty well but in terms of the downsides I mean drop serve concern that

could be kind of coached up out of you as well might just be a technique thing his route tree is very

limited and the lack of production especially when he went to Cincinnati in his final year against

tougher competition before the NFL combine he was going to be an undrafted free agent according to

all the mock drafts out there now after the NFL combine my guess is that if you look back at this

mock draft database it takes the the average of all the mock drafts out there he's probably going

to fall into at worst the seventh round probably being a fifth or a sixth round pick would be my

guess you don't run this well at this size especially like it's not like he's six foot one hundred

and ninety pounds he's two sixteen at six five he's going to get drafted and so is Bryce late

Lance Tray Lance's brother he is most definitely going to get drafted he might now be a definite

top one hundred pick I wouldn't be shocked if he goes in the top 50 as a second round pick in

this draft now because he's six foot three two hundred and forty pound two hundred and four

pounds at the NFL combine and this is what you're working with a four three four forty time at two

hundred and four pounds fantastic that's a ninety eighth percentile speed score his birth score

according to player pro-father ninety eighth percentile this means top two percent in his jumps

vertical and broad to any player that attended the combine he actually did the agility testing was

it great wasn't spectacular but it was well above average sixty third percentile and the big

thing about this is the agility testing I think like seven wide receivers did it maybe one or two

running backs did the agility testing nobody's doing it anymore at all the three con drill it's

tougher to do it's easy to look really bad doing it it's harder to train for so every player just

saying I'm not going to do it if you're doing it these days it shows your level of commitment to

your craft and the fact that he was above average is another plus probably for NFL GMS and coaches

here's where he ranked overall at the NFL combine for the wide receiver position he was fifth in

his forty yard dash time keep in mind he did this at over two hundred pounds not like some other

wide receivers who were a hundred and eighty or a hundred and ninety his ten yard split was only

behind Jeff called wells as well second in the class fourth in his vertical jump and third in

his broad jump was one of the most athletic players easily in the entire class at any position

especially wide receiver where his rad score was almost perfect a nine point nine five out of ten

let's look at some of his comparable just based on his athletic testing his size you're going to get

some comparable is out there like a DJ shark like his same school alumni Christian Watson they go

to the same school they both test like freaks there's going to be a lot of comparisons they might

both end up being second round picks at and I'm Mitchell out of Texas who was a second round pick

as well goes to the Colts ends up getting traded over to the New York Jets but this is still a player

who coming out of college had a lot of pedigree and a lot of people believed if he didn't have sort

of the off the field issues or like as my think it was in terms of his medicals that he would have

went in the first round now I mentioned the Christian Watson comparison I mean you're just going to

get it everywhere for this next couple of months including after the draft during the draft because

look six foot four Christian Watson 208 pounds six foot three Bryce Lance 204 pounds they both go to

the same school both run in the four threes and if anything Bryce Lance had a better vertical and when

you compare him to Christian Watson who we know the Green Bay Packers has dealt with some hamstring

injuries but when healthy he's looked like the number one receiver on this team he's probably

going to get a bag from this team as well to stay with them he signed a one year deal last year to

remain with the team this year I mean the downside for Christian Watson nine games 10 games the guy

always seems to be injured but when he's out there and healthy he has been a number one wide

receiver in the NFL and if you're going to get comparisons for Christian Watson who went at the

top of the second round to the Packers a couple years ago that's pretty good if Bryce Lane gets

that and if any Bryce Lance gets that and if anything he had really strong numbers in college we're

talking multiple years of production which Christian Watson his alumni did not have right you see

right here a thousand plus yards in back to back seasons to close out his college career which is

very good to see solid target chairs as well during that time you're catching 17 touchdowns this

past year incredible efficiency number one in college football for anybody with 50 plus catches

with a 21.2 yards per catch is insane efficiency and I get it he's playing at North Dakota State they

really don't play that tough of competition they didn't play much of it last year but if you

date back to 2024 where they're playing in the FCS playoff games and championships the toughest

competition he could at least face during that time if we're talking about the quarterfinals six

catches 125 yards you're talking about the semi-finals nine catches 107 yards actually this was

the finals and the semi-finals so the two toughest competitions during that time in the 2024 season

in the playoffs for the FCS and the championship game he's stopping a hundred yards having six

and nine receptions now in terms of the strengths to his game specifically he's elite in the red zone

he's very strong both at the catch point high pointing balls and his yards after the catchability

is that of a running back in open space he's also a deep weapon and big play threat he also only

dropped two of his 99 targets in 2024 and last year I have the stat right here he caught 62% 16 of

26 of his contested catches well above average now the weakness is to his game is that he's not like

sudden in terms of his athletic testing you could see right here he has the burst he has that 40 yard

dash but like off the line of scrimmage we got the 10 yards split being second best in the class

it didn't really show up on film all that much in my opinion so maybe that's something that he's

been working on over these past couple of months in the off season to improve for the NFL combine

if so that's great news generating immediate separation it's not really his game in college he's

gonna need to do that at the NFL he's gonna have to refine his routes as many players coming from

college and being rookies will have to do then maybe the biggest concern is that not only does he

have the competition as a concern but he's 24 and a half years old when the NFL season starts he'll

be a 25 year old rookie if you know anything about White receivers most of your prime is going to be

between the ages of let's just call it 24 to 27 years old he's already smacked out in the middle

of that in his rookie season at 25 so in terms of dynasty the longevity on a Bryce lands it's a

little bit concerned Lance was projected before the NFL combine to be a fourth round pick on

consensus my guess is now he's locked in for sure as a top 100 pick in the third round and I

wouldn't be shocked if he ends up going in the second run this is a very loaded class there's not

a lot of top end talent there's some guys up there are car and L.T. Jordan Tyson a guy lemon who

could be very good wider receivers in the NFL but outside of that it just has a lot of depth to

it we might see five wider receivers go in the first round of the draft 10 plus go in those first

two ishrounds of the draft and we might also see Omar Cooper being another one of those players

who ends up going in that second maybe even first round after what he did at the NFL comment this

is a six foot 199 pound junior out of Indiana just won the championship this past year in college

football and he is getting so much buzz now to be a locked in day two pick and maybe even a day one

first round pick at the end of the first round at a hundred and ninety nine pounds he runs a very

solid four four to forty time that is a seventy nine percentile speed score for both his height weight

and the forty ten that ends up going out there and running based on everything that we saw his

gauntlet drill was arguably the smoothest amongst all the wider receivers at the combine which a lot

of people don't factor in the gauntlet drill you might not like it I'm like so so on it but when

you're talking to coaches and GM's they love the gauntlet drill under pressure can you catch balls

can you run your routes all this type of stuff so just based on his athletic testing he gets an

eight point seven out of ten razz score relative athletic again he didn't do the broad jump he didn't

do any of the agility so you don't have a full complete profile here you just have his weigh-ins

his forty times his ten yard split was very good and his vertical was solid you scroll down who

he compares to just based on his athletic testing guys like Steve Smith guys like Greg Jennings are

very good when you start to look at the entire profiler of the profile of this player I start to

see some stuff on digs to his game which is very exciting maybe some Christian Watson as well and

the nice thing about Omar Cooper is not only was he a solid athlete 19th overall and athletic

score we just talked about the forty time at his size which is solid he was third in his production

score amongst all the wider receivers at the NFL combine so when we start to look at his actual

production in college good things here and in the end getting to play with from and from Nando

Mendoza last year is going to help of course the number one pick in this year's NFL draft but you

go out here you have nine hundred sixty one yards eighty one percent catch rate you're earning

twenty one percent of your team's targets while competing next to a guy named Elijah Sarat

who's also in this draft class who might also be a second at worst third round pick in this

draft class you're competing next to another future NFL player and you're still producing like this

if you're Omar Cooper mostly out of the slot and you can see the upside to his game if we look

at his game mugs from this past year now you're going to go in here and you're going to have a

monster game against Indiana state ten catches two hundred and seven yards four touchdowns in

this game against Indiana state they went seventy three to nothing this is obviously easy competition

but how many times you're going to see a wide receiver in college have a ten catch two hundred

yard game with four touchdowns you see it maybe once a year in college football that's exactly what

he did even in this easy competition but then it starts to translate to more difficult matchups

Illinois top ten ranked team six catches seventy eight yards very good game Oregon top three team

in the country seven catches fifty eight yards in that game as well also contributed on the ground

a match against Penn State later in the season three six catches thirty two yards in a touchdown

and don't forget the touchdown that he had in that game when Indiana was doing nothing

in happy valley against a top and a top Penn State defense he has this catch in the back of the

end zone as a Penn State alum as somebody who watched this game this was heartbreaking look at

this catch how does he get this foot down how does the heel come down in time it does we're

probably going to get the monetized for showing all this that's completely fine but the guys just

to freak he's a big play type player he's doing a lot of his damage this past year out of the slot

the year before that a little bit more on the outside some more vertical routes as well so he does

have that to his game there'll be a versatile player now you look here elite drafters over on

twitter elite slot separator two point four seven career yards per out run while facing top

competition right they went to the championship game this past year that have faced the best of

the best along the way Miami in the championship game he's a twenty one year old junior declare

eighty three percent of his routes from the slot last year so this is going to be a guy who could

separate he's very good that's where I started to get these Stefan Diggs comparables when you're

talking about a prime younger Stefan Diggs when he would come out of the slot if anything you're

going to get a more athletic version of that based on speed score in Omar Cooper and I thought some

of these metrics by Adam Carter were very interesting he said the only power for wide receiver

prospect since twenty nineteen with their past rating one targeted above a hundred and forty

and a mistackle rate one out of every three so thirty thirty three percent in at least one

college season look at them it's only been CD lamb Omar Cooper and Malik neighbors meaning that

it's been highly efficient for their quarterback to target them and they can break tackles as well

he's in really good company here it doesn't stop there same account right here be sure to follow

him at impact fb data on Twitter Adam Carter he says the only power for wide receiver prospect since

twenty eighteen with production in the following numbers above two yards per outrun against man above

three yards per outrun against zone a twenty five percent or higher mistackle rate and a

pass rating above one thirty you're looking at a short list here CD lamb a j brown Omar Cooper

we're talking about him Jamar chase Malik neighbors lad Maconkey and McKay lemon who's also in

this draft class expected to be a top fifteen to twenty pick overall when you're talking about

just how crafty of a route runner he is that has to be his biggest strength he can separate his

route running is very crisp especially on the slot he has the ability like we saw the year before

to move to the outside if needed and there's just a lot to like here his hands he has great hands

his contact balance he can create chunk plays he wins both inside and out his vertical speed like

we saw at the combine if you're talking about weaknesses some inconsistencies with some of the

routes that he's going to have to sharpen and just get a little bit more new on swift but that's not

a big deal to me the production was a little bit streaky going to make sense when you're playing

next Elijah charade another NFL type players in college football his effort at times was questioned

I'm not going to speak on that I didn't see that too much on the film so I'm not going to go in

depth more on that some of the other things that people are saying I think this is a very solid

prospect who helped himself at the NFL combine he's projected to be a second round pick as of right

now with the combine over thirty ninth overall he's a sure thing top fifty pick no doubt about it

I want to be shocked if teams start to talk themselves into this guy looks a little bit like

Stefan digs it looks like a Christian Watson George pickens tight mold player if we can get this guy

at the end of the first round because we don't have an early second round pick or we don't have a

second round pick at all we're going to take him I want to be shocked if Omar Cooper starts to get

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draft kings pick six the crown is yours the next winner from the draft is Antonio Williams at a

Clemson this is a five year senior he measured in at five or six foot one hundred eighty seven

pounds mostly a slot wide receiver he's going to be about twenty two years old by the time the

college season starts I think I said five year senior four year senior at Clemson and this guy

also showed up to the NFL combine and in my opinion he tested way better than people are expecting

especially based on like what his prop market forty time was because Antonio Williams came out

here he ends up running a four four one forty time above average for his size that's good to see

and an eighty fifth percentile burst score so his jumps were also very good this puts him at a

relative athletic score of eight point one seven so based on his athletic testing solid athletic

score he actually did the three cone drill it wasn't awful either so Antonio Williams is somebody

that's rising on my rankings look at where his athletic comparables look like right now you're talking

about Garrett Wilson most recently then a Henry rugs so these are very interesting players first

round pick caliber players at a big schools like Alabama in Ohio state interesting comparables for

who Antonio Williams at least in college was mostly a slot player and let's look at that college

production over his four years in Clemson I mean you're talking about a guy who broke out in his

freshman year in twenty twenty two he plays fourteen games catches fifty six balls six hundred and four

yards he then would go on to not do much because of injury in twenty twenty three in twenty twenty

four he has his best season seventy five catches nine hundred four yards last year he gets hurt

again plays just ten games fifty five catches six hundred four yards so in three separate seasons

he had at least fifty catches yet at least six hundred yards in those three seasons where he

stayed either fully or mostly healthy and he's also a versatile player like he does a little bit

more than just catch the ball obviously he's a wide receiver but if I look right here at the stats

we have twenty five career carries for a hundred eighty seven rushing yards and two touchdowns

thirty nine punt returns and he's also four for four and passing for a hundred and forty three yards

kind of a wonky college stat but he's used in different ways now if you're going to watch one

game from Antonio Williams I would probably go ahead like they played Louisville he had seven catches

fifty two yards their only ring competition last year but I would watch the Duke game it was a

closely contested game forty six to forty five very good game a solid Duke team overall I would say

not a great Duke team and he ends up going out there and he was like the only competition or the

only guy that they leaned on Tristan Smith at a nice game as well but ten catches hundred forty

two yards a touchdown also got involved I believe yet three carries twenty two yards and a

touchdown on the ground this one this is like the ultimate epitome of what Antonio Williams was

reliable productive in multiple ways versatile player this would be the game that I would go out

there and watch if I was you looking at this Clemson team in terms of the strengths of his game

he's an explosive playmaker good yards after the catchability and elusiveness he could ball track

and has body control he's a high football IQ player which would translate to the NFL things to

his slot only skill set for the most part and he also does bring some special teams value which if

he goes in the fourth or fifth round maybe just gets him on the field a little bit earlier and helps

him make an NFL roster weaknesses to his game I mean maybe he's slightly undersized that 187

pounds if he's going to be mostly a slot wide receiver I'm not as concerned about that he doesn't

really run away from anybody his his speed at four four one for a size kind of tells you that he's

not a burner in the four threes but the speed is more than fine of course does have some injury

history two seasons were hit by injury not anything that seems like it would be repeatable or

something that's a little bit of a concern and his decision to stay his senior year is maybe a

little bit of a concern like you come out after your junior year you have your best season 900 yards

11 touchdowns 75 catches why not go to the draft then instead of waiting for this loaded maybe

just a personal thing wanted to go back to college they're getting paid now and I NIL money in

college so who knows he's going to have to answer that from NFL GM's and coaches before the

combine he was projected to be a third round pick I think the third round makes a lot of sense for him

he didn't like blow away the combine but he did enough that makes me especially running that

three cone drill when nobody else is doing it makes me go yeah he's probably rising to like the

beginning of the third maybe finds himself in the second round if the proper team fit is there next

up let's talk about a guy that I really like Skyler Bell he comes out of Yukon he transferred

there this past year he waited at the combine at six foot 192 pounds this is the fifth year senior

he is already 23 and a half years old will be 24 years old while playing on his rookie deal and his

combine is one of the biggest reasons why he's going to be climbing this is already a guy who is

probably a third maybe a fourth round pick in the NFL draft wouldn't be shocked if somebody as

I've been saying for a lot of the guys in this video takes a shot on him in round two first

starters he went out there and ran a 4 4 40 time which was better than I think a lot of people

are expecting a 74th percentile speed score but the big thing was his burst 98th percent top 2

percent amongst any player to attend the combine in his speed score that means or in his burst

score he had the fifth best vertical and the third best broad jump in this wide receiver draft

class as you can see right here over on twitter from joe orca you points out the combine 11 1

broad jump 41 inch vertical both ring top five amongst all the wide receivers in this class he

was also a 2025 bulletnikov best wide receiver in the country award finalists now in terms of the

athletic testing the comms are a little bit concerning but again this is just based on athletic

testing not your skill set not your production in college not what you did against top competition

there's not a lot of names in here the best name in here is cadaria stony a former first round pick

we kind of know how that flamed out in the NFL and your giants can just do chiefs later on right

but I would say that these are helpful at some points but it's a little bit different with a guy

like skyler bell who actually had a lot of college production and that's going to make him a

better player or a guy who ranks out a little bit better not only was he seventh in athleticism

score at the combine he was 12th in wide receiver production so if you go to that you can see

played five years in college only one game in 2021 his eligibility lasts till 2025 where he transfers

over to UNC from Wisconsin and he goes out there and he starts to dominate in his final year

101 catches over 1200 receiving yards kind of reminds me in a lot of ways just about this like

late breakout and big production years of like a sky more obviously that didn't didn't pan out

at all with the hands of city cheese which is kind of what it reminds me of but I mean this guy

was just the entire passing game when he transferred in 2024 97 targets 860 yards and 144 targets

last year is absolutely berserk you start to look at the game logs they didn't play a ton of top

competition like basically no ranked teams at all he did face Syracuse 11 catches 170 yards that

was one of the better teams that he had to take on but then it's not going to be much on his

schedule when you're playing for Yukon like 14 catches 113 yards is a great game he's facing ball state

right BC college Boston college 10 catches 125 yards 8 catch 158 yards 8 catches 149 yards

against rice and Albany none of these are great football programs so it's really hard to gauge what

he would have done against those tougher competitions had he stayed out Wisconsin is a little bit

concerning that he transfers away from I get it a run heavy team most likely in Wisconsin goes to a

smaller program Ben starts to dominate as he's older but the thing that is really nice for him is

he went to the east shrine or east West Shrine Bowl earlier this year in March I believe or maybe

the end of February and he ended up getting named the breakout offensive player of the week so this

is kind of like it's not as good or as many talented players that go to the senior bull it's kind

of trying to get up to that level of the senior bull but this is basically like an all-star game

and he shines as the best player on offense against some of the tougher competition on both

defense and competing against other wide receivers out there so that's pretty good to see his talent

level as much as we can right now if you want to learn a little bit more about his game and where

he wins you can see right here Rob pullover on Twitter Yukon Skyler Bell is one of the best players

in the draft for the ball in his hands finished number two in the country in yards after the catch

this season was also the most dynamic pass catcher at the east West Shrine Bowl like we were just

mentioning so a lot to like about him one last thing we could touch on right here is my sleeper

for the 2026 class Skyler Bell according to DFS Zai Kenneth over on Twitter seventh best wide

receiver pff created in this class 3.14 yards per out run is borderline elite and he ended up

having a 35% targets per out run meaning that he was earning almost 35% of his team's targets per

route that he ran again not much competition over there Yukon but this was a very nice productive

profile that could get him catapulted up to round two the downsides to Skyler Bell why did he

transfer from Wisconsin was it just to get more playing time maybe that's as simple as it was

or maybe he couldn't compete against those guys in the big 10 there were some drop issues as well

he could take a little bit long on his routes and his catch radius isn't the best limited high-end

competition as well a lot of these we just won't know the interest to until he gets drafted in the

NFL the sooner the better for fantasy purposes if we could actually take him seriously as a threat

in his first year if he could land in that second or third round next up let's talk about Jeremy

Bernard over out of Alabama he measured in at six foot one two hundred and six pounds so a little

bit bigger of a wide receiver and then he ends up having a decent testing day like not the

greatest overall but I think he did help himself he ran in the four fours at over two hundred pounds

so a 78th percentile speed score he had no burst his jumps just weren't there but he actually did

the agility testing and had a 76th percentile agility testing one of the best at the entire

combine especially at the wide receiver position so all these things were pretty good to see I would

say he actually helped his stock at the NFL combine he ran a very good 10 yard split in his 40

time as well if anything he should be moving up draft boards and be a solid like number three maybe

number two wider receiver on a NFL team if you look at his athletic comparables you're gonna get

Sammy walkins on there as an athletic comparable which is a good one to see if you're trying to think

about the frame and then based on his production solid production the last two years at Alabama

where you're facing some top competition every single year seven hundred ninety four yards eight hundred

sixty two he's earning a twenty percent target chair back-to-back years and producing in the SEC

and some of its healthest competition he's been adding rushing value as well to his profile

dating back to twenty twenty three as five career rushing touchdowns he's basically just been

consistent like coaches are going to love this guy because of a couple of reasons the biggest one

probably is that he had ninety four targets last season only one drop he could also play the slot

so he's versatile he's been very consistent with four or with nine of his fourteen games last year

going for at least sixty receiving yards you can see that right here and he's doing this again

against some of the toughest competition look at this stretch of ring teams he had to play four

straight games uh Georgia vendor built he has five catches eighty two yards tennis see at that

point a top eleven team in the country five catches sixty yards later in the year against Oklahoma

seven catches seventy one yards against Georgia again six catches sixty two yards obviously

Alabama makes it to the college football playoffs here facing tough teams like oh you again

and Indiana the future winner four catches for sixty yards these are some of the toughest opponents

of the year so he's extremely battle tested not only did he have to earn his spot to be starting

and playing at Alabama which is hard enough already all the competition you have to get but then

he's facing the toughest competition in the SEC and the college football playoff and he's doing

it flying colors so he's not going to be one of the best white receivers in this draft class maybe

a third round pick potentially a fourth round pick but this is a guy who can play both a slot

and out wide he has strong hands he's a three level receiver just going to be a reliable number three

option maybe number two and the NFL the downsides to his profile are like yeah you're not going to see

the top end speed doesn't have a ton of yards after the catchability he's not like this guy who's

going to go out there and consistently put up 10 catch 100 yard games he's just going to be a

solid player in the NFL and sometimes that's good enough he was projected before the comments

actually be a second round pick which I thought he was probably more of a third round pick but this

might have locked in his ability to go in the top 50 he's probably a sure thing top 75 pick now so

the combine for sure helped Jeremy Bernard and the final guy we're going to talk about is Ted

Hurts Ted Hurts another guy who goes to a smaller school at Georgia state I think he had a great

combine for what he did six foot four two hundred six pounds he comes out at that frame and he

ends up testing like a freak four four two forty time at that size is 95 percentile speed that's

top five percent to attend the combine and an 85 percentile burst score these are very good

things to see he was awesome in the broad jump best broad jump of the entire combine for Ted Hurts

he tested like a freak and it's not like he's 175 pounds he's over 200 pounds almost lost my

microphone there I got so excited his razz score at 9.92 it's good to see he only didn't do

the agility testing which stinks and the bench press which most people don't at the wider

receiver position you scroll down here some of his comparables Denzel Mims Zay Jones Tyro Williams

some good some bad none great 10 Patrick's also on here so I get it if you're not loving this but

we're not expecting Ted Hurts to be a first round pick probably a third maybe a fourth round pick

here these are just his athletic comparables because when you start to look at his college

production at least over his final two years at Georgia state really good production 56 catches

961 yards on a 22 percent target share then fully breaks out this past year 71 catches 132

targets is elite for a college player over a thousand yards and a very strong 28 percent target

share and this is now two straight years of strong volume production yardage and he also did it

against some of the better competition that he got to face not a ton of great competition that

Georgia state faces but he did it when the moments mattered most as you could see right here

against the ring competition Vanderbilt hands up catching seven balls for 71 yards in that game

so that's awesome to see you scroll down a little bit more against a coastal Carolina team that

at that time seemed like a threat in the season for what they were facing 10 catches 165 yards as

well in a touchdown this is a guy who's mostly an outside wider receiver he ran he played 442

snaps last year 84 percent of them were out wide only 72 total snaps out of the slot now the

strengths to this guy's game he has an explosive first step he can line up in all three wide

receivers spots he has to jump all skills to ball tracking clean footwork and his acceleration

for his size is very good now in terms of the downsides for Ted Hurst it's going to be some

press coverage concerns the level of competition his release package and his yards after the catch

ability isn't the best a little bit of some concentration drops as well in the profile not as

concerned about those though NFL combine after this he's projected to be a third round pick

want to be shocked if he goes in the second round he's going to be a day two pick it seems like

now after that NFL combine which is great for a guy coming from a small school so these have been

the guys the seven wide receivers rising up draft boards after the NFL combine you want to see

the running back version of this video we posted it earlier in the week you can check it out right

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