'22 TX WR Evan Stewart (Oregon)

[Go Fight Win]

we have Webb, Leacock, and (my personal favorite of that group) Nimrod who I all think are capable of being WR2's potential WR1's in our offense. Given our WR rotation limitations, we haven't been able to see much of them. Now Keyton is gone, I think Webb steps into that role.

Chas has great hands and Hyatt level separation. I do think he explodes onto the scene as a r. soph in '24.

 

[Lefteye]

we have Webb, Leacock, and (my personal favorite of that group) Nimrod who I all think are capable of being WR2's potential WR1's in our offense. Given our WR rotation limitations, we haven't been able to see much of them. Now Keyton is gone, I think Webb steps into that role.

Chase has great hands and Hyatt level separation. I do think he explodes onto the scene as a r. soph in '24.

He may not be the quickest, but Nimrod had the best hands in the room this year. IMO

 

[Go Fight Win]

Nimrod is very fast. I agree he doesn't have the kind of slot receiver quickness, but that isn't his position

 

[you]

we have Webb, Leacock, and (my personal favorite of that group) Nimrod who I all think are capable of being WR2's potential WR1's in our offense. Given our WR rotation limitations, we haven't been able to see much of them. Now Keyton is gone, I think Webb steps into that role.

Chas has great hands and Hyatt level separation. I do think he explodes onto the scene as a r. soph in '24.

I can’t believe how many balls Keyton dropped this year.

 

[EdEcEko77]

we have Webb, Leacock, and (my personal favorite of that group) Nimrod who I all think are capable of being WR2's potential WR1's in our offense. Given our WR rotation limitations, we haven't been able to see much of them. Now Keyton is gone, I think Webb steps into that role.

Chas has great hands and Hyatt level separation. I do think he explodes onto the scene as a r. soph in '24.

You have higher hopes than I do for Webb/Nimrod. I’ve not been especially impressed with either of them.

 

[Go Fight Win]

I can't either. He either makes the most impressive catch I've seen all year or drops a backyard football pass.

 

[SouthKnoxVOL]

You have higher hopes than I do for Webb/Nimrod. I’ve not been especially impressed with either of them.

Lol....can't imagine what you said about Hyatt his freshman and sophomore year.

 

[EdEcEko77]

Lol....can't imagine what you said about Hyatt his freshman and sophomore year.

Probably nothing crazy but by all means use the search feature and find out.

 

[therickbol]

Lol....can't imagine what you said about Hyatt his freshman and sophomore year.

Not to mention WR is a position that is impossible to fully evaluate using TV coverage of the game. You don't have a birds eye camera footage that shows all 22 players every play. WR is HIGHLY dependent on other players and sometimes they do their job to perfection and a fan watching the game has no idea if he did his job or not.

 

[Blake25p]

I don’t care if we had Tillman and Hyatt on the roster you go get a player of Stewart’s caliber

 

[MemphisVol3]

Nimrod is very fast. I agree he doesn't have the kind of slot receiver quickness, but that isn't his position

Yeah I was going to say. Nimrod definitely has speed as I’ve seen him run by SEC DB’s. He’s not the small area slot receiver twitchy but more of an outside receiver imo.

 

[VolGee4]

You have higher hopes than I do for Webb/Nimrod. I’ve not been especially impressed with either of them.

Nimrod came right in after Bru's injury against USC and made a contested catch in the middle of the field. He has great hands. I don't know about Webb, but Nimrod has the potential to be excellent.

 

[EdEcEko77]

Not to mention WR is a position that is impossible to fully evaluate using TV coverage of the game. You don't have a birds eye camera footage that shows all 22 players every play. WR is HIGHLY dependent on other players and sometimes they do their job to perfection and a fan watching the game has no idea if he did his job or not.

Had I posted something glowing about them, you wouldn’t have said this and I would’ve accumulated likes for the post.

I wasn’t being overly critical. I’ve just not seen anything from them thus far that indicate either are special talents, really.

To put it another way - usually when you consider portal adds, you fear running off younger guys. So I thought to myself - if we could land Stewart, would a one year rental be worth potentially losing Webb or Nimrod? Absolutely IMO.

Now i fully grasp it takes time in general for a receiver to develop, and I think a receiver needs probably two years in this offense to excel. Both Webb and Nimrod are both young and finished their second year but barely played year one - so that’s a one off. I’m not fully judging them. But from what I’ve seen, neither have really demonstrated a singular elite skill set. Neither appear to me (and I’m no scout obv) to have elite speed, elite route running, elite hands or elite body control.

Gun to my head right now and I’d predict both are more likely to be solid role players at their ceiling. A 2022 Ramel Keyton type. Which you can definitely get by with, obviously, as long as players like Leacock/Matthews/Staley/Brazzell can become receivers opposing DCs have to game plan against.

 

[aRmo]

That's a dumb idea. UT needs depth and Webb/Nimrod/Leacock are not fully developed yet. All have talent. Hyatt wasn't very good for two years. He couldn't catch or get off coverage. He didn't know how to use his speed. Then it came together. There is a good chance that at least one and probably more of the guys you want gone will develop into really good WRs over the next couple of years.

I really hope you are right. To be fair. Hyatt still struggled with man to man in his final season. UGA locked him down and so did South Carolina.

 

[EdEcEko77]

Nimrod came right in after Bru's injury against USC and made a contested catch in the middle of the field. He has great hands. I don't know about Webb, but Nimrod has the potential to be excellent.

I was at the USC game so from where I was in the stands maybe I got it wrong, but I’m almost positive he also had a bad drop on an otherwise routine throw in that game also.

Nevertheless - I’m not a scout and I’m not declaring them busts. I was just giving my impression.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Maybe he never wanted to coach anywhere else?

@Freak

any chance we can get a merge here with the Stewart player thread?

 

[RiseToTheTop]

Most of these guys don’t separate well though

 

[MemphisVol3]

I really hope you are right. To be fair. Hyatt still struggled with man to man in his final season. UGA locked him down and so did South Carolina.

UGA literally held him and used triangular coverage on him.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

we have Webb, Leacock, and (my personal favorite of that group) Nimrod who I all think are capable of being WR2's potential WR1's in our offense. Given our WR rotation limitations, we haven't been able to see much of them. Now Keyton is gone, I think Webb steps into that role.

Chas has great hands and Hyatt level separation. I do think he explodes onto the scene as a r. soph in '24.

I do hope you’re right, but I’m still not sold on Webb or Nimrod. I know we’ve only seen them for a handful of games, but we have 2 years of Nico that we need to capitalize on. Right now, we don’t have a true #1. Maybe one can emerge, but if an opportunity to upgrade the position in the portal presents itself and it means Webb or Nimrod leaves, I wouldn’t hate it.

WR isn’t a glaring need obviously, but we need to maximize the talent around Nico. Just watching the Washington game last night and seeing their WR corp catch literally everything that came their way and not drop a single pass and then watching our group struggle to get separation and have issues with drops all year shows the room still needs to get better.

 

[GoodTimeVol]

I really hope you are right. To be fair. Hyatt still struggled with man to man in his final season. UGA locked him down and so did South Carolina.

This is a false narrative… he did good both games Hooker was off against Georgia and he had 6 catches against South Carolina

 

[I4Jay]

Most of these guys don’t separate well though

Yeah we currently have a roster full of Jags at WR.

Hoping Brazzell picks up the offense and Staley and MM are thrown into the fire

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

Most of these guys don’t separate well though

I was at the USC game so from where I was in the stands maybe I got it wrong, but I’m almost positive he also had a bad drop on an otherwise routine throw in that game also.

Nevertheless - I’m not a scout and I’m not declaring them busts. I was just giving my impression.

Yeah he came in and had a horrible drop on a slant that would have been a first down. Then he settled in.

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

This is a false narrative… he did good both games Hooker was off against Georgia and he had 6 catches against South Carolina

He also had two awful drops over the middle against USCjr.

 

[buffaloblue]

You get Stewart within the confines of your NIL structure you don’t go outside it. Think people forget how much we have coming if Bru comes back. Also squirill as a second or third option will be way more effective

 

[Orangeburst]

I learned my lesson with Chris Lofton when it comes to criticizing performance. You just never know what someone is dealing with.