But will they really, how many teams on our schedule have the receiver group better than ours and the ability to over match our secondary honest question. I know two teams Clemson and Texas a&m have the bodies
UNC - Joshua Down; 101rec 1,335yds & 8TD’s last season, he’s literally the best WR in the ACC
Pitt - Jordan Addison; 100rec 1,593yds & 17TD’s, the 2nd best WR in the ACC
Jared Wayne; 47rec 658yds & 6TD’s
Konata Mumpfield; (Akron Transfer) 63rec 751yds & 8TD’s
UVA - Dontayvion Wicks; 57rec 1,203yds & 9TD’s
Va Tech - Tayvion Robinson; 44rec 559yds & 5TD’s
Jaden Blue - (Temple Transfer) 166rec 1,623yds & 10TD’s in 3 years as a starter at Temple
I actually wouldn’t include TAMU’s WR’s in that group because they have just as many unproven commodities as we have in their WR group. They have high ranked kids but their offense doesn’t feature the WR’s, the TE’s & RB’s are the primary focus & get the lions share of targets in their offense.
Clemson’s group is mostly young & burgeoning. They lost 5-star TF Adam Randall already for the season in Spring camp with an ACL tear & he was looking to be a big contributor for them, but they still returned Beaux Collins who had 31rec 407yds & 3TD’s as a TF last year, Joseph Ngata the most experienced one of the group as a Junior, Dacari Collins another True Sophomore, plus signed 4-star Antonio Williams who’s a speedster & 3-star Cole Turner who’s supposed to be the next Hunter Renfrow for them.
Clemson’s WR corps is not as good as they’ve had in the past, they have a group of young Sophomores who are all 6’3 & above & have good potential but they’re unproven, but the caveat is if DJ Ukulele remains their QB they’ll be completely ineffective.
Overall, the point is, I’m simply saying while the Spring game was nice from our DB’s & it could be a good sign of things to come, people shouldn’t automatically assume that it’s just going to be a walk in the park the rest of the way just because they shut down our WR’s in a Spring game. There’s difference between locking down your own guys in practices & scrimmages & locking down guys in actual real games against real P5 opponents. Our guys may drop the ball, but that doesn’t mean our opponents will. Doesn’t mean they’ll automatically catch it either, just saying fans tend to not see the other side of things because they’re buying a little too high on hope & selling low on reality.
All I’m saying is, don’t get too carried away too soon. I like the direction we’re headed in too, just wait until they actually get it done on the field first before we start chiseling in names on the Bednarik trophy.