First Draft: The Wealth At Wideout.

USC Wide receiver Drake London Has A Car Fetish. Some NFLers Have Spent Their First Hundreds And Thousand Dollar Earnings On Jewelry, Homes, More Detailed Jewelry. Its No Doubt They Cut Routes To Earn It Play And Cut Checks To Make It Show.

GQ Sports Wont To Catch Up With London To Run Down Where His First One Million Got Spent. The Best Wide Reciever in This Class According To Group Think Metrics London’s From California. Geographical epithetical Inconsistencies asides, He’s coming From a Strong Pedigree Of Southern Cal wide receiver. They aren’t Ohio State, But they are good.

 

Michael Pittman Of The Colts.  Amon-Ra St. Brown Of The Lions. Nelson Agholor Of The Patriots. Ju-Ju Smith-Schuster is Currently A free Agent from The Steelers. Any School Would Envy That’s List and London’s The Latest To Continue  That Lineage Of Starters From The Sunset State. Where The Climate,  Culture And Well Caste Breeds A Certain Distinguishment.

Cali Has That Vibe. t Leats That’s What I Understand Of What’s Every FAmous Person Of The State Has Appreciated To Me. Its The “Yams”. Not To Be Confuse With The Suggestive Calloqiuilism.  “When Kendrick says he “got the yams,” he means he has attained money, power and prestige.”-Rap Genius, King kunta.


The Stuff That Inspired Many Bars Of Kendrick Lamar’s Braggadocios Ballads To His Californian Heritage; “The Recipe” Where He Conversed The Plentiful Scenery And The Proclivity For High-End Recreational Experiences. “I control California living 'til I am old.”  “Poetic Justice.” Where Down Cast Anybody Not from Cali “Everybody Else Basic..”

 

I’m sure These Truths Are Inherirant everywhere. It’s the state of speed like James Dean And The Cruise Of Low Rider It’s A Caste That’s Proven It’s Worth in Exclusivity.

 

London aspires To Prove Both Derivatives True In The League “California kid and car nut who dreams of buying a 1961 bubble top Chevy Impala with his future NFL earnings.”

 

Depending On the Model, this top-of-the-line All-new Body Vintage Chevy Could Run Anywhere Between 30,000 to 100,000. The List Options Range From 2-Door Sedan To a Convertible At Auction. Chevy rolled this model In ’61. In Response To General Motor Model Decade Defining Designs That Inspired  Chevy To Change The Course Of Its Design Influences.  The New Designed to replace the decade earlier “Earl-designs fins…, replacing it with a bobtail motif of two beads” Chevy’s rendition Of The “muscle car.” What’s Drake’s Appeal To This Model? That’s anyone’s guess, But Cars Are Often Tokens. A self-concept Or A self-presentation Reflect certain Qualities Of The Owner. Many Have to Argue That Drake London Should Be The First Receiver Taking In This Class. The Chances Of Him Heading Back Home aren’t Completely Out if The Picture With The Chargers Expected To Be in The Wide Receivers Market.

 

London Hails From Moorpark California. A Suburb Of Moderate Standards In California but Grander stature Countrywide. That Quality Of Just A California Thing Us “Plebeians” and This Model Would Fancy The opinion.

Maybe You Like Me. Owns an Infiniti, But You(I) Have A Mercedes Bens Park In My Ambitions. Tesla Constantly Break The Market Mold with The Latest Trends In Design And Functionality. One Thing Incontrovertible The best-mechanized Boxes Are Fast And Powerful; A Chevy Camaro. Or Sleek And Elegant A Porsche Panamera. The Option Is Endless.

 

 

This Draft Class Has already Set A High Scale In Speed. It’s The Best In Class With 12 Receiver  Clocking Sub 4.39 or Faster In The 40 Yard Dash. How much Straight Line Speed Translates To Football has Always Been A Difficult Judgement. For the most part Its Meant Nothing More Than A Symbol Of Deception And Misgivings. But The Instants Impact Some Of These Guys, are Expected to Bring Team Will Transform and Transcend the Position.

 

This Receiver Runs Deep, and No One Player Positioned himself to be the precise Cut Favorite Number One. It’s Going To Come To What Flavor Do Teams Like.

I Love Player Evals If You Could Tell. This Wide Receivers Draft Class Has Generated A lot Of Buzz more Than Any Other Group And Rightfully so. A Good Number Of Teams Should End Day two of the draft with at Least a Number Two Receiver In Tow For Camp.

 

You Must Have Read My Top Ten By Now. If Not Who You Sleeping On Buy Reintroducing London Who Skipped The Combine to Recover and Garret Wilson Who Only Reinforced his Position as a Potential Force To Be Reckon With Come Sunday has Nos No Value Here. This Drafts Has Riches And Depths At Receiver Could. This Years List of Impact Players Could Span The Mileage Of A 1961 Chevy.

 

In No Particular Order Here are The Best Of the Group, In My Opinion.

 

 

Aside From The Ohio State Guys and The Alabama Guys, one Of Which Happened To Be An Ohio State Guy, Treylon Burks, Has Spent The Most Time Under The Draft Microscope. The Bid Bodied Arkansas Hog Hunter, Yes He Hunts As Recreation Has Been Mentioned As The Top Receiver Of The boards In Nearly Every “Way Too Early” Draft Big Board Since 2021 And Turn On his Ole Miss Game Late You Get a Sequence Of How Could He Could Be In The League.

More extensive In Bulk than Length Burke Self-Actualized His Game In This Quote From The Athletic;

“I would say just being out there on an island, one-on-one,” Burks said. “Matched up with the corner and just knowing I’m trying to overpower him with my physicality and speed.” What No Point Out Would Be A Gaping Catch Radius. The Perfect Chemical Assembly Of Speed and Power Thai Draft Has To Offer. Burks reeled in 146 passes for 2,399 yards and 18 touchdowns in three years, and The Production continued To Climb From Year To Year. His Yards Per Reception 16. 9 Are Only Slightly More Impressive Than His Yards After Catch 9.3. With a 4.4% Drop rate.  Burks Take In Everything. At Arkansas His Shoveled In Snaps Out off The Back Field, Slot and Out Wide. The Combination Of Big Play Potential Tangled In With Situational Awareness Makes Treylon An Undeniable Find. I Have Seen Him as High As the Number One Receiver On Some Boards and As High 15th To The Eagles. He measures in a 6’2 Height, 6’5(79 1/8) In Wingspan With 4.5 Speed.

 

It’s No Wonder Jameson Williams Transferred Out Ohio State Ahead Of His Junior Year.  The Wide Receiver in Columbus mushroomed In His Two Years under Ryan Day. With Only One Ball Two Split Between 4-6 Legitimate NFL Caliber Receivers, Some New Threads Were In Order If Williamson, A Four Star Recruit, Would Prove His Potential transferable to Production. Not to Mention The Doppelgänger Effect Between He And Garret Wilson—PSSS, They Are Quite Literally The Same Player. He Transferred to “Bama” For A Season, And While I’m Not A Fan of The Transfer Portal, It Worked In This Case. Who Wins The Social Media Battle For Williamson Coming NFL Would Be An Interesting Matter.

 

Jameson Has Been The Cause For The Largest Divide in Group Think.

Is He The Best Receiver In This draft?.

 

The ACL Tear In the National Championship Complicated Things But The Question Will Persist All Throughout His Interviewed And Testing. Reportedly Ahead Of Schedule in Recovery. He’s Six Weeks Out, And The Expectations Are a “five to seven months” recovery Period. His Lone Season at Bama Ended In The Last Game With 1,572 yards on 79 receptions 15 receiving touchdowns in 2021, Both third-most in the Country On 19.9 yards per reception. At 6’1 180, Williams Uses His Long Limbs To Produce Incredible toque and Bends His Body To Matrix Level Angles. A Fluid recovery will Determine His Stature In This Class.

 

Striding To Puncture Defensive Upfield. At First, Glance Williams doesn’t Have Eye-Popping “Twitchiness,” But On Change Of Direction Or Double Move Routes His Elite. He Can Get To Top Speed Two-Three Strides Into His Routes And Tracks The Deep Balls With seamless hand-Eye-Body coordination. Still Raw with his technique and Route Running. He Makes Uo For it with Shift In Speeds.   Few Players “[kick]into a different gear.” Like He Can.

 

 His Strides Are Picturesque. Its Almost Sonic The Hedgehog Motioning.  Williams Needs To Refine His CutsOn Route. Taking sharper Bends Rather Than The somewhat oblong trajectory On Change of Direction Or He Could End Up Becoming A one-dimensional-Go-Route-Only Guy Piece on Offense. His Play Resembles More Of An Athletic rolled Out To Play Receiver Than Anything Else. His Frame Doesn’t Project A  prospect Equip To Manage Consistent Load On Contested Catches. Always A Big Play Threat With Next Level Agility. Impossible To Carrol In The Open Felid. Williams Forces Defenders To Miss With Near Pokémon Double Team Level elusiveness. Not the best Blocker Out Wide But A Willing Participant.

 

At Times He Can Be Caught Be “casual” on the route. It’s Not Uncommon For Player To Breaks On Snaps In Between actions. Matter Of Fact, It Would Be Inhuman. At Bama, Whose Passing Scheme Wasn’t Always The Best, Williams On And Off Effort worked. In Tuscaloosa, The Coaching Staff Utilizes Jameson deep, Meaning Play Calls For Shallow Crosses Often Meant The Ball Would Be Heading Elsewhere. Still, You Have To Wonder How Much Of This sometimes Nonchalant Approach Will Pear Into His Game Next Level.

 

Speed Can Be Deceptive. Chris Olive Ran A 4.26 Unofficial Later a converted To 4.39 Officially. It’s more than semantics. The Difference Between The Two Figures is more profound than a few decimal points. The results are Often A Matter Of hand reaction, laser radars, And The Sum Total Of Those Figures.

Moreover, Lights And Energy. Chris Olave Took All Of That A Turned It Into Next Level Qualifications. A Four Year Guy At Ohio State Whose Return to Columbus As a senior sent Williamson Packing. After Four Years, Olave Finished With 176 Receptions, 35 Touchdowns, 2711 on 235 Targets from the Inside and Outside, And A  Ridiculous 14.7 Average Depth Of Target(in 2021). The Experience Shows On Tape. Olave Stands In This Draft with the Best Acuity for Coverage Recognition. Reading Defenses and Adjusting his Route depth and degree and locating cushion or soft spots in the Zone.

He knew when to Break Off Routes and Had a Natural Feel For Comeback. Olave Adjusted Well From Justin Fields To C. j. Stroud. He Spent Two Working The Middle and Boundary as Fields Favorite Target To One year amongst the Bevy Of Options For Stroud and Produced In All facets Of The Game.

 

Olave Doesn’t Strike You as A Number One On Film More Because He’s Not The Overall Athlete His Peers. Profootballfocus Has Gone As Far As To Designate Him A “Prototypical Wideout 2”. I Would Go As For As To Say He’s More Of A 1B Guy. It would Do Better To Have an Alternate Option Stood Ahead of Him On The Depth Chart. Olave builds speed. Olave's time of 4.39 Secured The ninth-fastest of the 32 wide receivers who Participated at the NFL Scouting Combine only A Notched Below Teammate Garrett Wilson, who ran a 4.38, who Initially Finished Slower Than Olave At 4.37.

 

Further Knocks On Olave;  Doesn’t rear up and down in short space indenting by his one Miss tackle forced and his light 4.2 yards after the catch. His Lack Of Explosive Athleticism Could Require Some scheming To Unlock His Full Potential. As Pointed out by PFF, Olave Needs  A “Clean” transitioning For all Of His Other Attributes, Hand Size, Acceleration,  To Work For Him.

 

 

 

 

Other Noteworthy Guys:

George Pickens Of Georgia. As A Freshman In 2019, Pickens Got On His College Career Strong. Catching 49 Balls For 747 As Jake Fromm’s Top Outside Option. He Earned A Spot On The SEC All-Freshman Of The Year Award, And Quickly Earned A Reputation Amongst The Georgia Offense For His Adjustments On Catch, And His Next Level Feel For Deep Passes. At 6’3 200 Lbs, Pickens Showed A High Ceiling For Outstretching Defender On High Point Balls. He Sucked in Just About Anything In His Vacuum And  Range.

 

A Five Star Prospect Out of Alabama, Many Expected Pickens To Take Over the Receiving Market In The SEC Before Moving into NFL As A Wide Receiver One. But He Suffered A Few Setback On The Way. Pickens Never Showed Special Explosiveness. He’s Not Going To Utilize Double Moves Or Make Defenders Miss In Space. Excellent Use Of Leverage To Seal Defenders On Inside Or Outside Their Coverage And Extend Over Them.  He Doesn’t Have Next Level Speed On Film But Ran An Impressive 4.47 For His Build. Lacks Short Burst in College But Had Unique Long Stride Speed Creating Separation Late In Route He Made A Spectacular Lay Out Catch Against Alabama In His return Form Injury. That Memorable Catch, A Follow Up Another a Year Before Against Cincinnati When He Finished With seven receptions And 135 In His Last Game Before Injury The Following Fall.

 

Georgia’s Coaching Staff Flanked Pickens Out W, ide And He’d Win One-on-One With Strength And Range. The Type Of Guy You Not Going To Erase With press Coverage. Pickens Route Running Will Need Some Time. He Doesn’t Sell Him In Breaking Routes and Rarely Explored The Gaps Of His Offensive Potential Beyond The realms Vertical Territory.

 

Fault To Georgia Style Of Play.

 

 A Run And Defense First Team Rather Than A Wide Receiver Haven.

 

Pickens Lined Up In The Lost  33 of 297 Passing Snaps As A Freshman And Ran Post, Fade and Go Routes On Most Of Those Snap. Pickens Followed Up His Impressive Freshman Campaign With A team-high six touchdown receptions 36 passes for 513 yards In His Sophomore. He Struggled With Concentration Drops At Times But Has Overall Great Hands.  Got Suspended after A fight In A Game Against Georgia Tech And Earned A Penalty Against Cincinnati.

 

Pickens Has Natural Feel For The Game And Will Excel Over The Middle And Ove The Overtop. The Team That Drafts Him Will Need To Develop Him beyond The Veins Of  His Short Two Seasons In Athens.

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