Interesting Article On Mike Evans

Very interesting article TTF, thanks for posting it. I want the Steelers to stay far, far away from Kelvin Benjamin at pick 15 (or 47 for that matter) for many of the same reasons listed in the article about Evans. I do however think that Evans will be a better NFL player than the article suggests he will be. IDK if he is worth pick 15, but I do think he would have value somewhere in the first round.

I hope the Steelers draft defense in the first anyways... unless of course we can snag Marquis Lee, then I'd be all about it

 

The combine will tell us a lot. I'm leaning toward defense in the first and maybe the second too. With the underclassmen coming out the draft will be pretty deep at WR. We've done pretty well with receivers in the rounds 3-6. Rounds 1 and 2? Different story.

 

I'm not sure why we don't just pick jace amaro and be done. we have wheaton and AB. moye and brown. we have heath and spaeth. amaro runs routes like a wr. he's a good downfield blocker on DB's. why do we have to pigeon hole him as a TE? he is, but he's also a big WR too. 6-5 260. good hands. good routes. best blocking wr downfield we would have. only at the most a half a step slower than ebron and evans, if that. why not pick him as our tweener. save a spot. can fill as a slot wr or a 3rd TE.

 

Agree, excellent post.

i thought his analysis seemed genuine and vague.... But what do you expect as a free online blog?

(Admittedly a college football ignorer)

 

I disagree with you if you go TE in the 1st and WR in the 2nd then you're ignoring the weakest position on the team CB until the 3rd at the earliest and that's a compensatory pick. If you draft a TE at #15 he has no shot at starting in 2014.

 

I maybe missing something,but why
does everybody not like our WR corp.?
Can we give Wheaton,Moye,Brown
a chance? I fully expect Cotch to be a
PGH Steeler next year, With Ab,Cotch/Wheaton
Moye ,Brown, Heath AND THE BIGGEST
of them all BELL out of the backfield.
We have a pretty good receiving core.
I would like a TE behind Heath and get rid
of all the crap TE's we currently have.
Because of the poor play of the OL, Heath
had to stay in alot so the franchise QB
DOESN'T GET KILLED.

 

More importantly, we have a top notch QB. Good QBs don't need great receivers. Our biggest need on offense is LT, and our biggest need overall is defense. DL, ILB, S & CB. If we draft an offensive player in the first three rounds and it isn't a LT, I'm not going to be happy.

 

Instead of throwing passes to Sanders they need a big target who poses a mismatch in the redzone. In the Ravens game and Sanders dropped the 2 point conversion.

 

We mostly do not agree on things, but one
thing I think we both agree on is that we just want the Steelers to be the best they can possibly be. And to me thats all that is important. Everybody thinks I am negative, not really this is my hometown team,the greatest franchise
on the PLANET. I am far to passionate
about this team. We can do better, we
have to outwork these other playoff caliber
teams to rise to the top where we so deserve.

 

We struggled in the red zone because we ran the ball poorly the better part of the last two seasons. We have plenty of "big" receivers of the football on our current roster in Miller (6'5'') Spaeth (6'7'') Moye (6'5'') and J. Brown (6'3'') and add in the receiving threat of Bell who is 6'1''. The question is his development between the 20's. If he is only going to be used as a red zone target then he is a total waste at #15, because there is no reason to believe he would be a significant enough upgrade from either Brown or Moye in that role to warrant a first round pick. If we feel like he has enough talent and work ethic to develop the skills he needs to improve on to be a consistent #2 in the NFL, then yes by all means take him at 15.

I just want a WR that can come in and get open, and make plays... He can be 5'10'' or 6'5'' and it wont make one bit of difference to me. I think Evans can be a good WR, but he is slightly overrated due to his size (not nearly as overrated as Benjamin tho). Give me a guy with some speed that runs really good routes that guy is gonna be open all day in the NFL.

 

Jared Abbrederis, WR, Wisconsin

 

While I think his analysis is very weak here, I want to make the following points.

First, when Vincent Jackson came out of college he had 3 main question marks. 1. Is he a TE or WR? 2. Did he play against high enough talent or was he a man among boys? 3. Does have have enough agility or the ability to come in and out of cuts at the next level? I wonder why people make the comparison....

Second, what happens to his analysis if Evans comes in and runs in the high 4.3s or low 4.4s? Does anyone think that Wallace had an EASY time getting open simply because he can run fast?

Third, here are the facts:

1. While Evans doesn't have great speed, he will have enough.
2. He has very good hands and fights for the ball.
3. He had his best games against the toughest opponents, including other guys who are first rounders.
4. None of this means he will succeed or fail in the NFL. Sweed could run routes, but had no hands and wasn't mentally tough. Boldin probably survives because he knows how to get separation....even if he isn't fast.

Evans looks like a player to me....but I'm not a scout, so I don't know anything.

 

Yep, I think he would be an excellent choice. Moncreif would be too.