Al Borges' Book: Types of WRs

Submitted by Marley Nowell on

I guess I missed the CRex post awhile back and only first read about this after Heiko asked Borges about it at yesterday's presser. Essentially receviers break down into 3 categories:

Hands Guy: Dependable at catching the ball.
Deep Threat: Can get six points
Route Runner: Most likely to be open.

How do our WRs fit into these categories? I see it as the following:

Route Runner: Jeremy Gallon is poised for stardom and has multitude of shifty moves and excellent footwork to consistently get open.

Hands Guy: Drew Dileo not only provides YAC but will grab anything close to his catching radius.

Deep Threat: Jehu Chesson looks to fill this role (along with Gallon).

Losing Amara Darboh defintely hurts but we at least seem to have the depth to fill in for his absence.  Borges went out of his way to day how suprisingly fast Darboh is but I think that was more in relation to his size.  Chesson has legitimate track speed and we will need him to at least run deep routes and threaten the field vertically.

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Jeremy Gallon
Drew Dileo
Amara Darboh
Jehu Chesson

samsoccer7

August 23rd, 2013 at 4:30 PM ^

I think this kinda matters when you're not an elite school. You recruit or advance guys based on if they can do one thing really well. I imagine he really wants guys that can do St least 2 of these things. Ideally you get someone who can do all three but that's extremely rare (some people knock Calvin Johnson on his route running. Oh well.) At Michigan, we should be expecting 2 of 3 good qualities. That said, I agree with OPs assessment of what we have. But starting soon we'll have multidimensional guys, again.

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EGD

August 23rd, 2013 at 4:46 PM ^

It's notable that there isn't a category for "space players," i.e., the guys like Breaston--or, hopefully, Norfleet--who can make tacklers miss and pick up yards after the catch.  It seems to me like you'd want to always have a guy like that in your offense, but--together with Borges' aversion to bubble screens--it seems like that could be a purposeful omission.

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