As we know, these kinds of weapons, when used by a team their best potential, can be gold in PPR setups which most dynasty leagues are. We think he’ll almost surely be a WR at the NFL level, but it’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility that a team takes Samuel thinking they’ve landed a possibly elite runner/receiver in the mold of a Theo Riddick or a Dion Lewis. He has electric speed and is good at a lot of things, but not really great at any one. His lack of polish and easily identified transferable, functional traits to the NFL level from a position-specific standpoint bring a bit more speculation into the equation with Samuel than with others. 42 out of 55) likely a result of him not getting to focus on one position and refine skills specifically to it in college although he was a versatile offensive weapon, his skillset was not developed in ways conducive to mastering NFL-centric play principles with skill-specific training in short, it’s a bit difficult pegging exactly how he fits in an NFL offenseįantasy Outlook: He’s one of the biggest wild cards in this draft class. – graded out among the worst in our annual NFL combine WR on-field drill performance scores (No. – needs a lot of work as a route-runner very raw and lacks polish wastes motion into and out of cuts and is much more explosive than he is smooth – well above recent combine averages (last five seasons) in the vertical leap (37″) and the bench press (18 reps) coupled with the 40-time, these tests put an exclamation point on the explosiveness witnessed on-field – doesn’t have elite hands but does possess a nice ability to adjust to the football and see it in flexible to the catch-point can let the ball into his body with relatively high frequency and can make receptions harder than they are with wonky framing – has the famous Odell Beckham “take-a-quick-slant-to-the-house” game-breaking ability did this exact things numerous times during the 2016 season as a collegiate athlete – a twitchy jitterbug with more substance to him physically than you would think by the eyeball test alone in the mold of a Golden Tate – breakaway burner speed give him a little space to get upfield and he’ll fly vision as a runner (sometimes between the tackles) gives him unique vision for identifying space in the open field – if John Ross wouldn’t have broken the combine 40-record, Samuel’s 4.31 would have been the buzz of Indy and possibly the draft season – became one of the main cogs of the Ohio State offense once Ezekiel Elliott left town was not used heavily for his first two seasons left OSU after his junior season
– was one of the most unique skill-players in college football during 2016 as he played both RB and WR in sort of an H-back or flanker-type role where he’d get the football as a running back or as a receiver from a variety of alignments ranging from inline to flexed to out wide NFL comparison: Golden Tate, Bruce Ellington, Dante Hall