Noah Brown - Ohio State WR

[t96]

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/players/2139270/noah-brown

 

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STRENGTHS: Possesses a unique combination of size, speed, agility and body control. Accelerates smoothly down the sidelined when able to get a clean release, showing off straight-line speed and body control. Drops his hips and turns with fluidity.

 

Versatile athlete who has seen snaps at receiver, H-back and on special teams.

 

WEAKNESSES: Still very inexperienced at the position.

 

IN OUR VIEW: While inexperienced, as a redshirt sophomore Brown is technically eligible to enter the 2017 NFL Draft.

 

This kid could be very interesting for us. He's a redshirt sophomore who did declare for the draft and has had very little playing time in college after getting hurt in '15 and not playing much as a freshman. Has all the raw tools to be a guy who could be a surefire top 15 pick just has barely played and needs to be coached up a lot. Most likely a day 2 pick. If he blows up the combine maybe late 2nd, but I bet he's there at our first 3rd rounder. 6'2" 222 with downfield speed and quickness. He reminds me of a Philly Brown (another "Brown" from Ohio State) on steroids that's faster and quicker and of course taller. I think Noah Brown could be a big answer to our receiver problems and the perfect type of player to complement KB/Funch. Like a more physically gifted in his prime Cotchery back. Brown could play outside and kick Funch to the slot or I'd also be interested to see Brown inside and KB and Ginn outside if we keep Ginn. 

His inexperience is notable of course with I think less than 500 receiving yards in college but he has all the tools to be a monster in the NFL and if he can get coached up fast and get some experience right away I think he could help us a lot. 

Would love to see us take him with our first 3rd rounder or if he falls all the way to our comp pick that would be great. Anybody else have thoughts on this kid?

[bababoey]

Sounds like another guy we drafted out of Ohio State many years ago - Drew Carter.  Tall, fast, can jump but can't stay healthy.  Great tools in college but never did that much with them.  Then did almost the same in the NFL. 

[ncfan]

Hes one of the few late round WRs i want to keep my eye on leading up to the draft.

 

Others are the 2 LSU kids (Dupre and Dural) both have size and hands.  LSU has pumped out a couple WRs here lately. These 2 kids talents could be hidden by lack of QB and the Fournette, Guice show

KD Cannon- really intrigued by this kid.  Blew the top off in the bowl game.  One of the most explosive WRs out there.  Overshadowed by Corey Coleman the last 2 years but still put up 868 yards.  Named  most explosive player by nfl.com, fastest B12 WR by sporting news etc. In 2015.  

Mack Hollins- Former Walkon, deep speed, Tall, and great special teams player

[Shocker]

Not a ton of talk about it but there are a ton of WRs worth drafting this year.  Not elite ones but good ones.. One dude that might slip through the cracks is Mack Hollins from UNC.  He was a beast before the injury and got better every year.

[t96]

Looking like he'll go in the 5th-6th. Damn I want this kid so badly there. Yeah, could turn into nothing but for a 5th/6th with his upside and possibility of becoming a legitimate threat at the position, please sign me up. It's funny I was on the Philly Brown hype train after we got him, now I'm all in on another Brown from Ohio State. @top dawg this is our guy you need to look into at WR. Going to have to go with other positions where there's better talent in the first couple rounds but can get Brown and all his upside much later.