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(04-02-2025, 02:55 PM)MaroonBells Wrote: I don't mind taking a WR somewhere. Just probably not with our first pick. As you so correctly point out, WRs bust a lot. What if he misses? What if he's Reagor or Ruggs or Davis or Treadwell? Missing on a player who fills a need is bad enough, but if you miss on a player who doesn't, man that's a hard pill. I'll roll with Speedy and Moore and take a shot on a high-upside UDFA and feel pretty good about it.
One of the reasons I like Savion is you can really stress a D. His skillset is so different from what we currently have. Or at least it’s wrapped in a much bigger package than Moore.
You could Aaron Hernandez him for a game and rush him 25 games and he’ll give you 100+ easy. Want to Wildcat in the deep RedZone, you’ve got a plus sized QB. Tunnel screen? Jet sweep? He’s got hands good enough to snatch a ball low and behind him with ease. Excellent at contested passes. You just have to get him to concentrate. McCardell maxes him out. I guarantee he could be a weapon in the right hands.
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Savion Williams is a physical specimen. Provides easy, immediate speed from the snap. He isn’t the most twitchy player, but he has a quick first step off the line and smooth footwork when asked to gear down and drop his hips or at the top of his route stem. He has good bend on in-breaking routes.
Williams was a manufactured touch king at TCU, with screens, handoffs and wildcat quarterback snaps. The TCU coaching staff focused on getting Williams involved in various ways every game.
Williams has more than a few concentration drops on film, with at least an 11% drop rate in three of his final collegiate seasons. Overall, I’m not worried about his hands, as many of these are of the concentration variety. A better measuring stick for his mitts is his 75% contested catch rate in college.
He has no issues keeping his focus with 50/50 balls in the air or passes outside of his frame. The ball placement from his quarterbacks at TCU didn’t do him any favors. He was forced to adjust to plenty of inaccurate targets. Williams is a nice red zone threat with the size to box out smaller corners.
Williams should be eased into a full-time traditional wide receiver role in the NFL. He has the traits to become a needle-moving wide receiver. In the limited snaps where he faced physical coverage at the line, he exhibited good hand fighting and the play strength to fight through it in his routes and earn separation, but it was a small sample.
Add a guy with a unique skill set. Floor is Patterson ceiling is gigantic Percy Harvin.
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