We’re doing a deep dive into Jordan Addison’s NFL draft profile. I joined the Houston Texans’ Deep Slant podcast to explore Addison’s full package of strengths and weaknesses. You can read previous installments of this series.
Below is part three:
Sidhu: You’ve mentioned his measurables a few times, 5-11,173. He is kind of slight and that might be one of the negatives about him as a draft prospect just for people that care about size and stuff like that. But even in his final seven games at USC, his TD production wasn’t super high, only two touchdowns in the final seven games even though he was catching passes from Caleb Williams. How concerned should teams be with that final lack of production and size?
James: I think for the production, USC was so deep at wide receiver. I mean, you look at at Mario Williams and Brenden Rice, Tahj Washington, Kyle Ford. They had so many receivers at USC — a couple of them transferred and they were four or five stars. Michael Jackson was there and they got some guys coming in that are really good too. I’m not really worried about the production. Caleb Williams was also running the ball a little bit more too at the end of the season and they spread it out. That’s just how the offense is. If you looked at Lincoln Riley’s offenses from the past, that’s just how they do it. They spread it out. They run a lot of four and five wides. (RB) Travis Dye was getting the ball a lot more. They were trying to run the ball more before he got hurt. So I’m not worried about the production. I don’t think that’s on him. His production was so high and off the charts the season before, you knew he wasn’t going to match that. Those stats. I mean, Kenny Pickett, that was his guy. That’s really all they had was Kenny Pickett and Jordan Addison. So I figured his stats would drop off.
And the measurables I’m not worried about either. He could get hurt a little bit more so, but like I said, DeVonta Smith seems like he’s been fine and they remind me a lot of each other. DeVonta was insane winning the Heisman his year with Mac Jones and all those guys. He’s not quite that good, but he’s right there. He could be a star wide receiver. He’ll never be a top five, top ten receiver, really. But he’ll always be in that 15 to 20 range and he’ll make a couple Pro Bowls on the right squad.
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