We need to draft 2 WRs in Rounds 1 & 2

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Great article on some of the wide receivers that dealt with bad QB play.

https://www.pff.com/news/draft-2021-nfl-draft-five-wide-receiver-prospects-unfavorable-college-situations

I'm a huge Ihmir Smith-Marsette fan for the Bengals and this is right on the money if you watch him.

Quote:PFF Big Board Rank: 124

PFF lead draft analyst Mike Renner wrote in the PFF Draft Guide, “Smith-Marsette’s raw numbers aren’t going to tell the entire story of his game. The number of underthrown deep balls on his tape rivals anyone else’s in the country. He was able to run past pretty much any defensive back in the Big Ten if he got shoulder to shoulder with them.”

Folks, Renner isn’t lying.



This is a touchdown if the ball is put out in front of Smith-Marsette. Instead, Iowa’s quarterback gifts No. 2 an incompletion off the helmet on a bad underthrow. Smith-Marsette’s speed jumps off the tape. His 4.43-second 40-yard dash at his Pro Day was merely good in the spectrum of some of the other times from this draft cycle. But his 1.44-second 10-yard split — where you see him eating up the cushion on the play above — is better than “good.”

Like many of the receivers on this list, Smith-Marsette can produce if he lands in an offense with a quarterback who regularly hits him in stride on these vertical routes. That’s not a bad trick to have, even if Smith-Marsette projects as a “one-trick” guy at this stage of his career.