Let's Talk About Chris Conley

[C47]

As others have said... Conley's hands are dreadful.

[top dawg]

Any Georgia fans or otherwise that can give us some insight on why this physical freak is not projected higher?

 

Take a look at these off the chart numbers:

http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/chris-conley?id=2552652

 

His hands were inconsistent at the combine, catching well in some drills and not so well in others. Anybody watch him in college have a good grasp on whether this is an issue?

 

Interested to know what round we should be taking a realistic look at this kid. His measurables scream top 10, and by all accounts he's a high character guy, so I'm beginning to be pretty interested in the second round as long as his hands aren't stone.

 

Flowers/Collins/Fisher in the first and Conley in the second or third? What say you Huddle?

 

His main problem is that Georgia is a run first team that ran a balanced offense with a QB who didn't necessarily have the best deep ball, and that he hasn't had to be relied upon like some of the other receivers in this year's draft.  He probably isn't going to ever be on the A list, but I believe that he could be a solid pro if coached up and given the opportunity. His drops are overblown (he picked a bad day to have a bad day), but he does seem to suffer from lapses in concentration on occasion, but no so much that he has been labeled as having bad hands.

 

Saying that he has worse hands than Coates, or that his hands are awful is simply not accurate.  

 

I would keep an eye on him and monitor how he does in workouts, but I wouldn't dismiss him.  You will likely get truer indications as to his professional viability from the information from his workouts, as well as from the opinions of scouts after they seriously watch film on this guy, which they will undoubtedly do throughout the next few weeks.

 

If you want the real lowdown on Conley listen to what I'm saying.

[LinvilleGorge]

 

Saying that he has worse hands than Coates, or that his hands are awful is simply not accurate.  

 

 

Possibly so as I admittedly didn't watch much UGA football this season, but the kid couldn't catch poo at the combine, that's for sure.  He looked like a guy who would get knocked for his hands even if he was a DB.

[MV%doe]

I just don't get it. There are so many college WRs with terrible hands. I get it that you want to try to give your best athletes a chance to get the ball in their hands, but when you look at this year's safety class and it is so weak, imagine if they'd given a guy like Coates the chance to play FS.

It just seems like we have the exact opposite phenomenon with WRs/DBs compared to OL/DL. It seems like all the good jumbo athletes are playing DL. There is a serious lack of athletic OTs coming out these days and that's one thing that really drives those guys up draft boards. On the flip side, look at the safeties this year. Hot trash. Meanwhile, there are several tremendous height/weight/speed guys trying to play WR who just can't catch a football. Those guys used to be DBs.

This is my theory, I have 0 facts to back this. With the RB devalued, more and more are trying to be WRs rather than RBs. Same for the poor safetys, the money for players is @ CB. Plus with the "yes" man groups and agents in this era, its add to problem as well. You cannt flip them poor WRs to DBs, cause its totally different. It would be like driving in reverse for the rest of your life.

[WUnderhill]

Nobody's talking about this, but I think it's been proven that the most important question we should be asking is:

"Did he attend Deangelo's mother's funeral?"

Once you have that figured out, everything else falls into place.