More value should be placed on route running and ball skills (hands and tracking) than speed. The All-Pros are typically elite in those areas. The best Wide Receivers in the NFL generally run 40 times in the 4.5+range.
+ Sharp route runner + Toughness + Run after the catch ability + Return ability + 3.13 yards per route ran in 2025 + Just a 2.5% drop rate in 2025 + Willing blocker + Finding soft spots in zone coverage + Over 1,100 receiving yards with 11 touchdowns in 205
- Limited touchdown production prior to the 2025 season (3 total in his first two seasons at USC) - Projects to play primarily in the slot at the next level - Catch radius
Highest true pass rush win rate among 2026 NFL Draft edge rushers:
ReplyDelete1. WMU Nadame Tucker (40.8%)
2. CMU Michael Heldman (40.4%)
3. TTU David Bailey (38.6%)
4. NM Keyshawn James-Newby (37.5%)
5. MIA Akheem Mesidor (37.5%)
6. UM Derrick Moore (36.0%)
7. OU R Mason Thomas (35.1%)
8. TEN Joshua Josephs (33.8%)
9. UCF Malachi Lawrence (34.7%)
10. UW Zach Durfee (32.1%)
It's not a great list of center options this year.
ReplyDeleteI'd look into signing players like Fabian Moreau, projected $1.5M and Jalen Nailor, projected $4.75M.
ReplyDeleteOT pressure rate allowed removing screens, throws under 2.0 seconds, DL stunts. Filtering for "normal" pass pro snaps:
ReplyDelete2. Spencer Fano 1.7%
3. Max Iheanachor 2.0%
5. Caleb Lomu 2.3%
10. Monroe Freeling 2.6%
24. Blake Miller 4.0%
30. Francis Mauigoa 4.3%
37. Kadyn Proctor 4.7%
The Seahawks are hiring 49ers tight ends coach Brian Fleury as their OC, per Pelissero.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a team get pilfered from as consistently as Shanahan's.
Not since the Walsh/Seifert years and it would have been worse back then if Eddie D wasn't paying the 49ers assistants so much
DeleteMore value should be placed on route running and ball skills (hands and tracking) than speed. The All-Pros are typically elite in those areas. The best Wide Receivers in the NFL generally run 40 times in the 4.5+range.
ReplyDeleteMakai Lemon (5’11 190) USC
ReplyDelete+ Sharp route runner
+ Toughness
+ Run after the catch ability
+ Return ability
+ 3.13 yards per route ran in 2025
+ Just a 2.5% drop rate in 2025
+ Willing blocker
+ Finding soft spots in zone coverage
+ Over 1,100 receiving yards with 11 touchdowns in 205
- Limited touchdown production prior to the 2025 season (3 total in his first two seasons at USC)
- Projects to play primarily in the slot at the next level
- Catch radius
Draft projection: Top 15
Clemson WR Antonio Williams (5-11, 190) isn’t a sleeper, but little forgotten
ReplyDelete🐅34 starts; Freshman All-American
🐅1st/3rd Team All-ACC
🔸Crisp, tempo’d routes manipulate separation; 1.8% drop rate
🔸Aware of Zone soft spots & sideline
🔸14 MTFs in ‘24; Outside & slot
🔸9 YPPR
BREAKING: The 49ers are expected to hire veteran defensive backs coach Jerry Gray, per CBS.
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