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Curtis Samuel And Randall Cobb - A Look At How Eerily Similar These Two Players Are

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One thing that just recently took my attention about a minute ago was a guy on twitter posting a very intriguing comparison of Samuel in the NFL. It's very much a fair comparison, and when it's seen in action, it's hard to believe these are two different players. 

Watch the video. It's worth it. 

Give your thoughts below.

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It might be true...but the "evidence" being a video comparing a sample of 4-5 somewhat similar plays taken from their respective careers isn't very compelling. Randall Cobb is not a one-of-a-kind receiver in the league; there are plenty of those small shifty slot-type receivers capable of making plays very similar to those in the video. Taylor Gabriel, T.Y. Hilton, Kendall Wright, Eddie Royal (at a time)...too many to name.

 

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but when you treat every positive Panthers' article as some kind of insightful ground-breaking piece of media (especially when several of them essentially drive the same point), it sort of diminishes the value of all of these threads.

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11 minutes ago, MasterAwesome said:

It might be true...but the "evidence" being a video comparing a sample of 4-5 somewhat similar plays taken from their respective careers isn't very compelling. Randall Cobb is not a one-of-a-kind receiver in the league; there are plenty of those small shifty slot-type receivers capable of making plays very similar to those in the video. Taylor Gabriel, T.Y. Hilton, Kendall Wright, Eddie Royal (at a time)...too many to name.

This. Cobb is a decent slot receiver. Nothing more, nothing less. He had one really good season, but has had four middling to decent seasons. Not sure why a lot of people here recently are throwing Cobb's name around like he's Smitty or Antonio Brown. If we're getting the 2014 version of Cobb, then we got one of the biggest steals in the draft. If we're getting the Cobb of the past two seasons, then we're getting decent value but there were probably receivers taken later in the draft who will outperform him.

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Other than playing an HB/WR role at their respective teams Randall Cobb never ran a 4.3 40. It is the major difference between the two. Cobb would have been a mid/late 1st rounder imo if he ran a low 4.3

The Percy Harvin Comp is more on point where the game breaking speed and seperation is what D coordinators have to account for. 

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8 hours ago, MasterAwesome said:

It might be true...but the "evidence" being a video comparing a sample of 4-5 somewhat similar plays taken from their respective careers isn't very compelling. Randall Cobb is not a one-of-a-kind receiver in the league; there are plenty of those small shifty slot-type receivers capable of making plays very similar to those in the video. Taylor Gabriel, T.Y. Hilton, Kendall Wright, Eddie Royal (at a time)...too many to name.

 

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but when you treat every positive Panthers' article as some kind of insightful ground-breaking piece of media (especially when several of them essentially drive the same point), it sort of diminishes the value of all of these threads.

Never meant his career would look exactly like Cobbs. Just that they have similarities is all.

If you honestly assumed this was ground-breaking insight and that this was his tragectory in the league, then sorry to break it to you, but it's not.

Again, simply a taste of seeing one part of a comparison of someone's game to another. There's another deeper video that explains how the comparison came to fruition, but I didn't explain that part. I just wanted to show the Huddle a little taste of a decent NFL comp to Samuel.

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1 hour ago, TANTRIC-NINJA said:

Other than playing an HB/WR role at their respective teams Randall Cobb never ran a 4.3 40. It is the major difference between the two. Cobb would have been a mid/late 1st rounder imo if he ran a low 4.3

The Percy Harvin Comp is more on point where the game breaking speed and seperation is what D coordinators have to account for. 

I hope he's more like Cobb. Harvins times speed wasn't significantly faster than Cobb

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