Auden Tate is the WR I will be pimping this year -round 2.

[Stryker]

Berrios

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Here's Braxton Berrios' Highlights from last year


I like Berrios' hands. He has good elbow placement on balls over his head, and good sideline awareness. To me, with his size and lack of speed, he is only a slot receiver in the NFL. No chance of playing anywhere else. His route running and hands, and body positioning scream a NE Patriots receiver to me. Slower than Hagen, but looks a lot like Welker with his hands. Should translate to a good possession receiver in the slot for the right team, but may have trouble making a roster with his lack of speed and size.

A lot of his balls were contested in college due to his lack of speed. In the pros he will be covered unless he really works on his route running.

 

[Stryker]

I like the Pettis kid out of Washington. Big time deep threat and a great KO returner. Round three

Pettis to me looks like a really good college player. I don't know how much it will translate to the pros. He's under the standard 6'2" 200 at 6'1 185. Usually players that are lighter and shorter make up for it in speed, but he does not, projecting at a 4.55. On film, running routes, he doesn't look fast. His hand placement is a little lazy. He body catches some balls he shouldn't and pancaked a deep ball over his head (pinkies should touch, and he had both palms parallel).

I like the way he fights for balls in traffic and he does have wiggle to make players miss. To tell you the truth, I like him better as a returner than a WR. I personally like some of the later round options better.

 

[Stryker]

give me Anthony Miller, Memphis, WR in a middle round.
hell yes.

Anthony Miller highlights:


Negatives
elbows out on overhead balls. Needs to get them tighter to his body.
route running is not crisp, DBs are with him on breaks
Making a lot of catches with DBs on him without having much room

Positives:
Short but I love his body size. He's got a big frame, good for boxing out.
DBs will not outmuscle him.
Love his fight for the EZ and RAC yardage.
Deceptive speed, like JuJu. Faster football speed than timed speed.
You can't jam him off the line.

Has a chance to be a really tough possession/slot receiver in this league. I'd like to see how well he blocks, didn't see any in his highlights showing that, but with his body type, I think he'd had good leverage with proper technique in the running game.

 

[slashsteel]

Here's his 2016 highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0baFjcgdkwY

First 2 catches were in the gut zone. thrown to his gut/belly button. 9 times out of 10 this is a body catch by players. He caught both with his hands!

Already is showing me he's a hands first catcher. Good quickness, and great fight after the catch to gain yardage or the EZ.

and 2017:


His 2016 highlights showed good fundamentals. His 17 highlights shows how he built on them into an expanded role in the offense. He really looks a lot to me, like AB. He's running all the routes, and making tough/incredible catches, due to his excellent hand placement and body technique. He's not big, but he uses his speed and body to create space, just like AB. I'd be fine with him being picked up, because he would do really well learning from AB. They have the same body/speed/technique coming out of college.

His RAC is excellent, both with his balance, body control, and stiff arms. Plays a lot bigger and tougher to bring down than normal receivers his size. He's great completing catches on the sideline and back of the EZ (great field awareness). Also breaks off his routes really well on scramble plays to help his QB (sounds a lot like AB right?)

His size will cause him to drop. He's really light. Anywhere from 150-170lbs. At least his 17' highlights don't look like he's under 170. He's very quick, I like his wiggle and I'd consider him if he drops to the 5th, but his film shows me he's a 3-4th rounder. I take him low, because on our team, where do you put him. If we keep AB JuJu and Bryant at the XYZ, you can bring Burnett in as the other Y replacing Eli. Also looks like he can play X, and back up AB. I wouldn't put him at the Z spot at all.

Yeah Tate is if they want to replace Bryant, but that might be a next year option with our inside guy hurt this year. Plus Tate probably cost the Steelers a 2nd and I think they will glue in to D 1 and 2.

Burnett just makes more sense for the hear and now. And where I would expect them to pick up a WR. Like in round 3 or 5.

 

[slashsteel]

Here's his 2016 highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0baFjcgdkwY

First 2 catches were in the gut zone. thrown to his gut/belly button. 9 times out of 10 this is a body catch by players. He caught both with his hands!

Already is showing me he's a hands first catcher. Good quickness, and great fight after the catch to gain yardage or the EZ.

and 2017:


His 2016 highlights showed good fundamentals. His 17 highlights shows how he built on them into an expanded role in the offense. He really looks a lot to me, like AB. He's running all the routes, and making tough/incredible catches, due to his excellent hand placement and body technique. He's not big, but he uses his speed and body to create space, just like AB. I'd be fine with him being picked up, because he would do really well learning from AB. They have the same body/speed/technique coming out of college.

His RAC is excellent, both with his balance, body control, and stiff arms. Plays a lot bigger and tougher to bring down than normal receivers his size. He's great completing catches on the sideline and back of the EZ (great field awareness). Also breaks off his routes really well on scramble plays to help his QB (sounds a lot like AB right?)

His size will cause him to drop. He's really light. Anywhere from 150-170lbs. At least his 17' highlights don't look like he's under 170. He's very quick, I like his wiggle and I'd consider him if he drops to the 5th, but his film shows me he's a 3-4th rounder. I take him low, because on our team, where do you put him. If we keep AB JuJu and Bryant at the XYZ, you can bring Burnett in as the other Y replacing Eli. Also looks like he can play X, and back up AB. I wouldn't put him at the Z spot at all.

Yeah a lot like AB, although AB will have to school him on that toe drag swag.

 

[MTC]

Deontay Burnett is also clutch.
He made a lot of big catches when the trojans needed.

His fundamentals are there. Great vision, strong hands, amazing awareness after the ball.
In that youtube video, he had a lot of YAC plays. He knew where to go etc.

Having JuJu around would solidify him more.
Steelers should take a look at this kid.

 

[Stryker]

For the life of me, I don't know how the league sees this kid as a 7th rounder. He's already making waves in Cincy:

_Seventh-round pick Auden Tate, the monstrous Florida State wide receiver and last of the Bengals’ 11 draft picks, is making a real run at the roster. At 6-5, 228 pounds Tate has caught everything despite his marginal 40 speed but there are no indications they’re moving him to H-Back. Asked about Tate’s catch radius by Bengals radio voice Dan Hoard, Ross gave him a great future training camp bite with, “I think it’s ridiculous. It looks like the ball is always out of his reach, but it’s never out of reach for him.”

 

[Stryker]

So Auden Tate is already getting first team snaps, red zone snaps and might be the kick returner as well.

He's doing so well, they are releasing Brandon LaFell. That's a nice problem to have.

I think Ross is currently the #2, but Tate will make up ground. He has way better hands and concentration than Ross. Ross just has better speed.