Picking Kelly over Sweed

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Originally Posted by Longtimefan

Too much is made of 40 times, with Kelly, his ability to explode off the the line, get position on DB's, and use his frame to shield defenders will be more important in this offense than straight line speed. His ability to go in the middle (where we hardly threw the ball at all last year) and make the tough catch to move the chains is just as valuable an asset as speed. I consider him a perfect complement to Moss, and Randle El.

As far a comparing him to Limas Sweed, only time will tell on that one. It's difficult to try to make a production comparison at this time because there's nothing to compare them too. We need to see them both play at the NFL level in order to make any determination.

Nice post LTF, kind of stole my thunder.

Burst, quickness, suddenness are IMO better attributes for a WR than flat line speed, these attributes will allow WR's to get open more frequently, couple that with Kelly's size, his ability to use his body to shield defenders, and his great hands, I believe he is a great fit for the WCO. He may not have tested well but his game speed looked very good to me, I do not believe that speed will be an issue with Kelly.

Although we had IMO more pressing needs in this draft I do believe we definitely picked a very talented draft, I look for almost the entire draft class to be on the opening day roster and that ain't bad.

As for the Sweed comparison? He received the nod on going over the middle, that evaluation couldn't be more wrong, he dropped plenty of passes in traffic over the middle, Kelly made every catch that he could put a finger on over the middle. I wouldn't be a happy camper right now if we had picked Sweed over Kelly, time will tell who really is better but I think it will be Kelly!