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Receivers still trending tall

By Tom Luginbill
Scouts Inc.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Wide receivers come in all shapes and sizes, but there are trade offs. If a player doesn't have great speed or size, then he must have great quickness, and it is a huge bonus to have big-play ability as a returner in the kicking game if a receiver is undersized. For the most part at the college level, gone are the days of the "smurf" receiver who was drastically undersized with cat-like quickness. Those receivers provide little in terms of red-zone production and force quarterbacks to be extr ...

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