VDay Mock

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(02-20-2023, 01:21 PM)casear2727 Wrote: There are a couple write-ups on his receiving, I wasnt aware of either, if I get the chance I'll try to find them. But one thing was defintiely drops early in the season and maybe limited to flat passes?  I like the kid a lot, pretty sure I was the first to mention him here.  

Im all good with a rookie and Perine, especially Roschon.

I've seen snaps of Roschon making catches other than in flat routes.
But even if it's primarily just flats, that's what the Bengals use their RBs mostly on anyway.
They don't have their RBs going on a variety of routes, especially non-short routes.

Make no mistake - I don't think Roschon Johnson is going to be one of the top pass-catching RBs.
But most of the top pass-catching RBs are specialists. They aren't guys who can also run it well, especially between the tackles.

I see Roschon Johnson very similar to Perine in his skill set.
He'd be one of the (few?) well-rounded RBs who is kind of a jack-of-all-trades currently.
However, he has a higher ceiling than Perine, IMO.
I expect Roschon Johnson to outperform Perine's Combine in nearly every category except for probably the weigh-in. 
I'm predicting low-mid 4.5s in the 40, better than 9'6" in the broad, 35"+ in the vert, probably around Mixon's numbers in the agility drills (under 4.30 in shuttle, ~7.1 in 3-cone). That'd be solid for a RB who is likely going to weigh above 220 lbs and measure just above 6'.
We'll find out next week how close to these numbers I am.