The Rookie Scouting Portfolio (RSP)

Category: Wide Receiver

  • WR Size: Is It Valid Analysis? By Chase Stuart and Matt Waldman

    WR Size: Is It Valid Analysis? By Chase Stuart and Matt Waldman

    Chase Stuart of Football Perspective drops by to collaborate on the topic of wide receiver size and the limits of applying analytics to the subject. Matt Waldman: Stats Ministers and Their Church I’m a fan of applying analytics to football. Those who do it best possess rigorous statistical training or are disciplined about maintaining limits…

  • Boiler Room: Nebraska WR Quincy Enunwa

    Boiler Room: Nebraska WR Quincy Enunwa

    Ever think about how you’ve changed over the years? What did the “old you” think, say, and do versus the “new you?” This is something I think about all the time when I’m studying football players. I remember the first time I saw Terrell Owens as a rookie. He wasn’t the rocked-up, raging force of…

  • Futures: Wake Forest WR Michael Campanaro

    Futures: Wake Forest WR Michael Campanaro

    A Lesson In Zone Routes By Matt Waldman The depth of the wide receiver class is one of the headlines of the 2014 NFL Draft. The subtext of this storyline that deserves more attention is how the volume of talent at the position generates massive variation of player grades from team to team across the…

  • No-Huddle Series: WR/KR Bruce Ellington

    No-Huddle Series: WR/KR Bruce Ellington

    Bruce Ellington is like a Swiss Army knife equipped with a butane lighter that doubles as a jet pack. A couple weeks ago, I was a guest on Elise Woodward’s show on 950 KJR Seattle talking Seattle wide receivers and the NFL Draft. Woodward asked me which receivers I think the Seahawks might take in…

  • Futures: A Trio of Sleepers

    Futures: A Trio of Sleepers

    WR Paul Richardson, RB Tim Flanders, and QB Dustin Vaughan are intriguing players without the big-top pedigree. Futures: A Trio of Sleepers by Matt Waldman According to most fantasy football writers, the term “Sleeper” is dead, buried, and the wake held in its honor featured a stuffed mushroom dish with creamed spinach and Italian breadcrumbs…

  • Picking on Jarvis Landry

    Picking on Jarvis Landry

    I promise, I really do like a lot about Landry’s game, but when a player provides good teaching opportunities, you take it.  I’ve already heard from some LSU fans who feel it was unfair to criticize Landry’s effort in an area where I stated most college receivers aren’t playing at top intensity (run blocking). Forget…

  • Futures: Brandin Cooks vs. Ifo Ekpre-Olumu

    Futures: Brandin Cooks vs. Ifo Ekpre-Olumu

    The Oregon State receiver may be a headliner, but Cooks was upstaged in this game in resounding fashion by a fellow junior with a higher draft stock that has chosen to stay in school.  Futures: WR Brandin Cooks vs. Ifo Ekpre-Olumu On most Saturdays where he treads his feet, Oregon State junior Brandin Cooks is…

  • Six Plays That Make Me A Fan Of WR Odell Beckham’s Game

    Six Plays That Make Me A Fan Of WR Odell Beckham’s Game

    Some schools are known for producing good athletes whose games don’t translate to the NFL. LSU’s Beckham doesn’t fit that pattern. Craig “Buster” Davis. Devery Henderson. Early Doucet. Brandon LaFell. Terrence Tolliver. These five receivers were good college players at LSU who failed to develop into productive starters that an NFL team feels it’s “set”…

  • Reese’s Senior Bowl Offensive Practices Day 3

    Reese’s Senior Bowl Offensive Practices Day 3

    Players Who Grew On Me Oregon’s Josh Huff leads this list of players who I like more as I leave Mobile than I did upon my arrival. The receiver demonstrated that he could catch the ball with his hands on a consistent basis. While he doesn’t make receptions at the level of difficulty we see…

  • Sr. Bowl WR Technique Roundtable

    Sr. Bowl WR Technique Roundtable

    Five Senior Bowl wide receivers talked with Matt Waldman and provided helpful tips behind the techniques of playing their position. RSP: Cody, tell us about your development transitioning from high school to college. Cody Hoffman: In high school, we didn’t even have a receiver’s coach. When I got to BYU I worked on route running and the…