NFL Draft - All time WR class?

I don’t think Milton could hit the broad side of a barn let alone Nico.

Hindsight and all, but he made the right decision with how the season has played out.  There's no way he improves his draft grade playing in this offense.

Truly sad that this coaching staff helped make them decide that it was a better decision to leave early / not play vs. honing their skills for another year and improving their draft status. 

Sorry, the 19 class was better. McLaurin and Metcalf is better than anyone on that list

It is frustrating. We may have scored 3 more points in several of the games. 

Nico would have made a very small impact on our offense. We don’t use tempo, try to burn clock by running the ball and either can’t successfully/won’t throw the ball down the field against teams worth a shit under Harbaugh. If I was Nico, why stick around for 5 receptions a game? Like DPJ, he’s only going to get drafted on physical abilities because Michigan does almost nothing with offensive skill players. 

No point in getting hurt for a marginal improvement, at best.  He put in his time.  

Unless Nico is calling the plays, throwing to himself, blocking for himself, and splitting time between DT and CB on the other side, I'm not real sure it makes much of a difference.  Maybe we could beat Rutgers in regulation? Or manage an extra FG attempt(miss) or 2

I think Collins made the best decision for him, and I said it at the time and continue to hold to whatever decision players made during the pandemic was the right one for them.  The conference mis-managed their response so many ways that none of this surprised me.

I will say, that list is a bit all over the place.  I think Collins goes in the first 3 rounds, which was about as likely a position for him regardless of how he played this year.  Maybe he bumps up a bit if he had a great 5-6 games, but the NFL knows what it's looking for in receivers and I'm not sure college production is a great barometer for that.

Collins, though, is far more established and appealing compared to DPJ to the NFL.  Provided he doesn't just bomb at interviews and the combine, he should get a far higher NFL grade and position.

I think Nico is rated lower because they didn’t get the ball to him enough and he doesn’t have elite speed.

The one year the Lions don't take a WR with a high pick

Whatever class Jerry Rice was in.  Don't give a shit who else was drafted in the class - that was the best class ever.

Kind of like the JFK saying during the 1962 Nobel Price dinner at the white house.....

"this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Last year before the season I had a heated debate with a friend over DPJ, Black and Collins being better than Alabama's trio

At this point I believe my fanhood is a sickness

We aren't really interested in or are capable of throwing the ball. What would playing this year have done for him?

We might be in the golden age of WRs because WRs are so much better prepared to make an impact in the next level due to spread offense and NFL's adaptation to the spread offense. We already seen the trickle up effect from HS to college to NFL in terms of football scheme.

This is not a surprise.  Here is a message I posted when Collins opened up on his reasons for opting out:

Pepper Brooks

October 21st, 2020 at 11:35 AM ^

Not sure if this is a good business decision.

Ja'Marr Chase, Jalen Waddle, Devonta Smith, Chris Olave, Rashod Bateman, Rondale Moore, Tamorrion Terry, Terrace Marshall Jr., Amon-Ra St. Brown, Seth Williams, Marques Stevenson, Tylan Wallace, Sage Surratt, and Dazz Newsome all moving up in mock drafts. That's 14 WRs listed in the first 3 rounds. Nico Collins no longer appears.

Jalen Mayfield, Kwity Paye, and Aidan Hutchinson all appear in the the first 3 rounds.

It seems Collins could really benefit from a quality season, no matter how abbreviated.