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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 903969" data-attributes="member: 12283">Right, so if Rondale is a manufactured touch player rather than just a fixture who produces within the flow of your offense, you probably shouldn’t take him in day 1 or 2. He has a role, but that role is unlikely to be a 700+ snap receiver. We can say 2” doesn’t matter, and maybe they won’t, but the plain fact is that it has mattered. If he became a full time receiver at 5’7” he would be the only player to do so in three plus decades so far as I’m aware. Why take those odds high in the draft when you have other good options?As for Devonta Smith, what I want him to do is to not be in a sub set of receiver prospects, physically, that almost never work out. The whole point of this is not to say that these guys can’t play or that they’re guaranteed to fail. It’s simply a way of eliminating the highest risk prospects to improve your odds of hitting. Because yeah, Smith looks awesome. And it looks right, on tape, to say that he would at least be as good as Ridley. But Ridley himself was undersized and still twenty pounds heavier than Smith. You let some other team have the chance of Smith being a stud to avoid the misses, which will always be more prevalent when you’re dealing with outliers. That’s the theory.</blockquote>

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