04-28-2016, 11:36 AM
(04-28-2016, 11:28 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I see a lot of "confirmation bias" in this thread. everyone is bring up examples to prove their own point and refusing to acknowledge examplse that prove them wrong.
Jeremy Maclin was "all speed and no hands" when he came out of college, and I could come up with a lot of other examples.
The fact is that no player coming out of college is a finished product. NFL coaches look at the faults in all of the players and try to identify what they can fix and what they can not. Sometimes guys who have excelled in college with good hands and route running have maxed out their potential and flop because they can not get any better in the NFL.
If a man with baby hands can't catch well, how do you teach him to catch? Hope his hands grow and inch?
I've always been someone who doesn't make a big deal about hand measurements if the player in question never had problems catching with them. Now if he has had problems, it should be viewed as problem, a problem big enough to not have him as a 1st round consideration.
