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Rookie receivers

Bombs away with 2015 wide receivers

If you like rookie receivers who can get downfield, this is your draft class. Phillip Dorsett, Breshad Perriman and DeVante Parker all averaged over 19.8 yards per catch in their final college season. In the last 10 years, only other receivers have reached that mark.

And getting downfield, notice, seems to be a contributing indicator to NFL success. If guys can get downfield in college, they tend to also have some success in the pros.

On the list below, all of the players who’ve averaged over 17 yards per catch have had some success in the pros except Troy Williamson, who was plagued by drops and eyesight issues (is it a drop if you misjudge a ball and it doesn’t even hit your hands?). And Robert Meachem I would call neutral at best – had some long catches and sort-of productive but overall he’s more of a disappointment than a success. If we’re allowing do-overs, no way would any team select Meachem in the first round.

And let’s not bang this yards-per-catch drum too loudly. I know that Ashley Lelie had a really high average coming out of Hawaii.

FIRST-ROUNDERS, YARDS-PER-CATCH
YearPlayerNoYardsAvgTD
2010Demaryius Thomas461,15425.098
2015Phillip Dorsett3687124.1910
2015Breshad Perriman501,04420.889
2005Roddy White711,45220.4514
2014Mike Evans691,39420.2012
2015DeVante Parker4385519.885
2014Odell Beckham Jr.591,15219.539
2005Troy Williamson4383519.427
2010Dez Bryant1732319.004
2014Kelvin Benjamin541,01118.7215
2006Santonio Holmes5397718.4311
2007Robert Meachem711,29818.2811
2009Hakeem Nicks 681,22217.9712
2013DeAndre Hopkins821,40517.1318
2013Cordarrelle Patterson4677816.915
2009Percy Harvin 4064416.107
2007Calvin Johnson761,20215.8215
2009Kenny Britt 871,37115.767
2011Jon Baldwin5382215.515
2012Kendall Wright1081,66315.4014
2007Dwayne Bowe6599015.2312
2007Craig Davis5683614.934
2011A.J. Green5784814.889
2011Julio Jones781,13314.537
2009Darrius Heyward-Bey 4260914.505
2014Sammy Watkins1011,46414.5012
2007Anthony Gonzalez5173414.398
2012A.J. Jenkins901,27614.188
2015Amari Cooper1241,72713.9316
2005Mike Williams951,31413.8316
2005Braylon Edwards971,33013.7115
2014Brandin Cooks1281,73013.5218
2015Kevin White1091,44713.2810
2005Mark Clayton6687613.278
2007Ted Ginn Jr.5978113.249
2015Nelson Agholor1041,31312.6312
2012Justin Blackmon1211,52212.5818
2009Jeremy Maclin 1021,26012.3513
2009Michael Crabtree 971,16512.0119
2012Michael Floyd1001,14711.479
2013Tavon Austin1141,28911.3112
2005Matt Jones00---0

—Ian Allan

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