LincolnBorglum79 said:
Somebody is going to take a chance on him with a late round pick or as an undrafted free agent. It took him one quarter of a second longer to run 40 yards than expected. Yet, on the field during the first 2 years he looked like Kyle Pitts vs similar competition. Last year, he wasn't as good with Calzada throwing to him.
It's hard to see how he went from possible first rounder to undrafted. It just means he will have to prove he belongs.
Kyle Pitts just beat people. Trask could throw fades and let Pitts just burn a dude and then catch a ball on his head. It wasn't until a few weeks into that season that I learned Pitts wasn't actually a receiver, and for the draft, a lot of people evaluated him like one. He could run all the routes the receivers could.
Wydermyer isn't a great comparison, in my opinion. They produced some similar stats, barring this last season but even then, I don't think it's a very great comparison. Pitts was a lock in the top 10 of last year's draft by professional graders. Even in Wydermyer's prime, he had a mid-first ceiling in my unprofessional opinion.
While Pitts could just beat dudes even when he was a focal point of defenses, Wydermyer is better at just punishing teams for their mistakes, especially in a zone. He just kinda slips through zones to open patches in the defense.
I do definitely agree with the first part though. I kind of expect him to be a 6th round pick still. Sure the measurements weren't there, but the tape was. He played 2 great years of football and a decent 3rd one with a struggling QB. There were a ton of drops though, and while many blame Calzada, I'm afraid that may have only been part of the problem. Good NFL QB's will rip a ball into a tight window, so Wydermyer needs to clean those up, though Calzada never helped him. My concern is that Wydermyer's hand isn't fully recovering from last spring's injury when he cut it really badly. If he sliced the tendons and nerves and things, I have heard of injuries of that never being the same, like Jaylon Smith never regaining total feeling in his foot after his knee got obliterated.
