Matt Harmon and PFF’s Trevor Sikkema discuss Ohio State’s Carnell Tate and why he would be a great fit for Jaxson Dart and the New York Giants offense.
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Yeah, so we’re sticking with Ohio State.
Carnell Tate, their wide receiver, going number five overall to the New York Giants.
I like this fit a lot specifically because of who Jaxson Dart is as a quarterback.
He wants to push the ball deep down the field.
I watched him at Ole Miss for a couple of seasons, especially when he was playing at his best.
It was a vertical passing attack, and I feel like that’s still what he wants to do.
Yeah, he’s got that dual threat sort of rushing ability to him, you know, allow the defense to kind of creep up, make sure that they’ve got, you know, a safety coming down to, account for maybe an RPO look or a QB power look or something like that, and then boom, the second that you get them to creep up a little too much, you hit them over the top.
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We know that Malik Nabers can do it.
Obviously, he’s coming off of the injury, so you gotta factor that into it as well.
But Carnell Tate, probably the best vertical receiver in this class with the way that he wins deep, the zero point zero drop rate with him, despite having so many fifty-fifty chances, contested chances, 30, 40 yards down the field.
Yeah, okay, like, the 40-yard dash wasn’t as great as it could have been, but I’m not real, r- I’m not real worried about that.
I mean, he wins vertically down the field in a lot more ways than just being the fastest guy out there, and I honestly think that we focus a little too much on top speed when we talk about some of these vertical receivers.
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It’s so much of an art when it comes to contested catchability, hand-eye coordination, deep ball tracking, being able to have those little subtleties where you’re attacking the blind spot of a corner to get them to, you know, flip their hips the wrong direction, and then all of a sudden you’re kind of turning the other way and there’s the football.
Like, there’s a lot of ways to win deep and vertical without just being the fastest guy on the field, and I think that we’ve seen that time and time again with some of the fastest guys in the draft who don’t pan out to be that.
So I just have a lot of faith in who Carnell Tate is as a vertical receiver, what they’re going to want to do with Jaxson Dart as their quarterback, how he naturally wants to win and wants to push the ball deep down the field.
To, to me, when we talk about the Giants potentially adding that, you know, complementary piece to Malik Nabers, I, I think that Carnell Tate is actually the best version of that.