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Mr. Scot Grand Master

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48 minutes ago, MillionDollarCam said:

Injuries are the name of the game for him. I watched him a lot at BYU and there was a point in his career that he was averaging a TD every five touches.

Problem is, he only had like 20 touches because he was always hurt.

Nonetheless, he’s on all my fantasy teams.

Guys like that typically wind up looking great when they play but missing a lot of time.

More often than not, they end up signing with several teams over their career, each time hoping this time they stay healthy.

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I’m all for complaining about not getting a player we should have taken and they end up being great.

But that line probably gets drab at the end of the second round, and even then, only if we passed on the player to take another.

But as others have said, a guy who goes in the 5th means every team passed on him multiple times, it was just an overall scouting miss and/or him ending up on a team that is the perfect fit for his skill set.

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Just now, tukafan21 said:

I’m all for complaining about not getting a player we should have taken and they end up being great.

But that line probably gets drab at the end of the second round, and even then, only if we passed on the player to take another.

But as others have said, a guy who goes in the 5th means every team passed on him multiple times, it was just an overall scouting miss and/or him ending up on a team that is the perfect fit for his skill set.

I think the larger point is our wide receiver scouts may flat out suck. 

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3 hours ago, NAS said:

5th round rookie just sets the NFL record with most receptions in first two games to start his career.  Looks to me like Bryce could have used that guy.  5th round pick!

Our wide receiver scouts suck!

edit: they don’t just suck because of this pick, look at our draft history 

Season does not end after 2 games lol

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3 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Meanwhile, Broncos' late 2nd rounder Marvin Sims Jr. just had 168 all-purpose yards and a TD.

Mims is going to be a stud and was in college. Huge fan. Hate that he wound up with Payton and Wilson though.  Just a big fan of his all around.

Tank Dell seemed to also pick up where he left off in college.

Downs is also getting notable grabs and looks in Indy.

It would be nice to have found a guy that can produce rather immediately. Seems like WR is the position where that can happen more than others. Would love to see a nice game from Mingo on Monday.

 

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9 hours ago, MillionDollarCam said:

He’d 100% be getting the reps, just not the volume.

I’m not trying to say I knew Nacua was going to be a stud because I didn’t, but he was very good at BYU. I’m not a BYU fan but for other reasons I watched the majority of their games and when he was playing he always stood out. I said in an earlier post that on a particular BYU broadcast I was watching, the commentator stated that Nacua was averaging a TD about every five touches. When I heard that I was intrigued with the kid. The problem has always been his ability to stay on the field.

In training camp he had already passed Atwell on the depth chart, he was the WR3 heading into the season for the Rams.

A guy with that level of potential would definitely already be on IR here. 

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Irregardless of the example OP used we do suck at both assessing and maximizing wide receiver talent. Whether that's squarely on our scouting department or Scott Fitterer idk but I know I'm tired of it. If this season is more of the same in that area we need to remove someone from the building.

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7 hours ago, Bear Hands said:

Mims is going to be a stud and was in college. Huge fan. Hate that he wound up with Payton and Wilson though.  Just a big fan of his all around.

Tank Dell seemed to also pick up where he left off in college.

Downs is also getting notable grabs and looks in Indy.

It would be nice to have found a guy that can produce rather immediately. Seems like WR is the position where that can happen more than others. Would love to see a nice game from Mingo on Monday.

 

I really wanted Downs and think he will be a solid slot WR. We had several people on here wanting Mims (you might have been one of them). However, Mingo has a high ceiling and Smith was wanting us to draft him at 39. I think when Young gets more comfortable we are going to be happy with Mingo.

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7 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

I really wanted Downs and think he will be a solid slot WR. We had several people on here wanting Mims (you might have been one of them). However, Mingo has a high ceiling and Smith was wanting us to draft him at 39. I think when Young gets more comfortable we are going to be happy with Mingo.

I really liked the mid-round talent in this draft class, period.

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