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This is Arizona State wide receiver Jordan Tyson. He's the wide receiver that should come up with the most debate in the draft class. To me, he's a jester maxing route runner who can contort his body at the catch point like nobody else in the draft class. He's also probably the wide receiver that's going to cross you up at the line of scrimmage the most. He's really productive in three different seasons. And then he also has some things we have to figure out before we can grant him [music] true wide receiver one status. Mike Frael heard you use those terms in the Patriots draft room. He'd shove you in a locker immediately. All right.
6 foot2, 203 pounds, 22 years of age. I mean, he's very high up there in terms of targets per route run and yards per route run. And in 2024, if you look back at that Sunund Devils team with also Cam Scataboo,00 yards, the next closest wide receiver on the team had 339 receiving yards.
Point blank. My big statement, his 10 best routes are probably better than anyone else's in this class. But when you dig a little bit deeper, everything he does is just a little bit over the top. Like in his routes, there's a lot of movement, the head nods, all of that. When there's a drop, he pounds the floor in anger. When he makes a tough catch, there's a huge celebration like no one else has ever done it before. And then when he gets banged up or injured, he kind of rolls around on the floor and makes it a a massive deal. But man, I will say the tempo in his routes, the different speeds that he has is really, really enticing when you only watch him and don't really watch the rest of the offense.
Yeah, he is just super exaggerated like you say. And that leads to massive separation on some plays and then other plays where it kind of comes and goes. And I think at the catch point, he makes some of the most spectacular grabs. The one over his shoulder in the end zone getting his toes in. There's some nice one-handed attempts from him as well. Uh there's sometimes where somebody's hitting him and he can survive it. Other times he doesn't, but he can like fight back to the ball and make a diving play like many of the wide receivers in this draft class can. So that's how he's to me his best athletic traits is like this kind of contortionist angle of them. I'm not sure if I saw like elite like long speed. Um but I do see this version of an athlete uh which if you can kind of slim down some of the fat that he has in his game, I do think he would be a very productive receiver. There's a lot of it. There's like a brisket- sized fat cap maybe to some of the movements that you need to cut down on in some of his routes.
Those are tasty players. Yeah, that [laughter] Yeah, it's kind of a slow roast though. You know, you need to do eight hours and and the Trager out there and at the end the final product is is really really nice. Um, we're not going to get athletic testing from him. Okay. He tore his ACL, MCL, and PCL in 2022 at Colorado. Then in 2024, collar bone injury. In 2025, apparently he dealt with a hamstring issue that also kept him out the NFL combine and now it's keeping out of his proday work as well. He did have 26 bench press reps. I'll let you debate if those were legitimate or not.
Um, he breaks my brain. He breaks my brain because again, if you only put highlight reels out there, you think that he is a storyteller, that he's a salesman, that his routes from any alignment are going to win versus press and isolation and man coverage at all times. And like that's simply not the case when you just watch route after route, target after target. I mean, there's a third and five got to have it situation against Mississippi State. He is the primary slant and he can't even get off the line of scrimmage. he's completely stonewalled. But then later on in the same game, third and three in the red zone, same scenario, he easily gets it. I mean, he creates like three yards of separation instantly. And there's these other parts, too, where it's like amazing stuff, then really frustrating or impressive and then really confusing. Um, like you said, he'll have this incredible body control with the ball in the air to throw back his back shoulder, then he follows it by not surviving the ground and it just becomes an incomplete pass or like he'll make one person miss after the catch with an Olay and then go down really easily on the next one and so he creates zero hidden yards at the end. Again, my brain is broken by watching Jordan Tyson. Well, I think that's just what happens when you're a really exaggerated route runner and you see like his release package. When it works, like the guy got crossed over and that's that. But if the corner is patient and physical, it's hands on you and the rep is over. And I don't think that he has the crazy athletic traits uh in terms of speed and toughness and strength to kind of overcome that, which leaves him as a very boom bust uh guy at the line of scrimmage. And like yes, absolutely the highlight plays there's I'm not discounting those at all. Like that is why there is a real ceiling with Jordan Tyson. And I also couldn't overlook some of the other things. I do think there there's a little bit of a weird thing about his profile too where against zone coverage and his yards after catch skills are just so lackluster. So against man, 3.5 yards uh per route. That's really really strong numbers. And then against zone, it's at 2.4 yards per per zone route. And if you look at his yards after the catch numbers, they're really bad for like a player that we are granting is like seems like a decent enough athlete. There is I don't know what term to exactly uh give it. There is a like lack of want to and then also a a really like weird plan of how he's going after yards after the catch. He will run backwards sometimes. He slides over the middle after catching a slant more so than any wide receiver I can remember. And I think I have a theory on this. You mentioned that uh almost knee dislocation at Colorado. That happened on a slant where somebody got under him right after. Since then, he does not take that ball and get up the football field. To the extent on a third and four, tied at 24, 90 seconds left. He catches a slant. There's room to run. He slides short of the first down in a tie ball game with 90 seconds left. You can't explain that. There's yard yards after the catch where you will just run out of bounds. I don't know what to do with that information.
The craziest part is Hines Ward was his wide receiver coach at Arizona State. I mean, you cannot be more opposite in that department in terms of hard-nosed, got to have it, I'm going to cross this first down marker for my team than what Jordan Tyson puts out there. Um, he told this story, and like look, this is long-winded, so stick with me here. He told this story uh about how he would play video games in high school instead of working out until his brother Jaylen snitched on him to his parents and that moment like turned everything around. He hasn't played a video game in years. Uh his brother Jaylen by the way was a 20th pick in the NBA draft ju just a couple of years ago. Um baller like double digit average with I think the Cavaliers or something. And then the other part of this is well where does he get this route running technique from? He loved Doug Baldwin and Devonte Adams. those were his profiles. So like you see it with their kind of skip releases, extremely exaggerated stuff.
Look, you you can throw out any type of player comparison that you want and would kind of fit with him. Some of the most frustrating ones, I know our buddy Matt Harmon threw out Amari Cooper. Someone in my comments just from like this frustration element, I think Adnai Mitchell is is somewhat there too. Obviously Adai was much more of a vertical route player and like his testing speed we actually have that was a 434 I mean 88th and 98th percentile jump. So like maybe I think Adai Mitchell's athleticism is better. I also think Jordan Tyson does some things better but like in terms of the hot and cold high variant stuff not sure what you're going to get game to game but even like series to series that's what stands out the most with this pro. This is every video, man. I had Adenai Mitchell as one of my comps as well for him. I just said without the elite burst and like I thought Adnai Mitchell was very frustrating. I think I had him as like a round one two borderline guy if he wanted to just like throw a dart. Uh other comps I have for Jordan Tyson, a much slower version of Garrett Wilson, who I think was like the top 10 uh caliber player in this kind of tier. He's a bigger version of Jerry Judy, which is like I think a compliment. a bigger version of Deontay Johnson is another comp I came up with. All those guys super hot and cold and I just don't know if Jordan Tyson has four 44 in his speed profile. Like I thought he was a geared down and I thought his Colorado tape before that that injury he was flying down the football field and there was a lot less of that at Arizona State. And I think that like some someone like Deontay Johnson, he did a lot of his craftiness within, you know, 10 15 yards of the line of scrimmage. I can see that being where Jordan Tyson is. And I always thought Deontay Johnson was a flashy route runner, but also very frustrating as more of like a number two or number three target. And I think that's where I feel comfortable with Jordan Tyson. I think this is sounding overly negative and I I do want to reset to like taking a positive lens through this, but one reason why it might be negative is because you see when it all comes together and that is what makes some people rank him as the wide receiver one in this class. Like you see it for sections of games where he looks uncoverable, where he's making these acrobatic catches, these onehanders twisting and turning and flying and soaring and all this stuff. And it's like, man, this is a refined player who moves differently, who that type of stuff translates to some of the best pure storytelling route runners in the league, but then it's like way too many canyons of it just not like the process not being complete. Again, I'm not saying like he's a bad contested catch player and these are not drops, but he puts himself in like the positions to win these crazy twisting and turning grabs, but then like when he hits the ground or there's contact, the ball just comes out or there's a fumble.
Yeah, slender. He is slender. Like that's that's a fact.
I I I wonder what's going to happen when he faces like the most physical corners in the league. like is he gonna be able to step up and rise to that competition or if he's just going to kind of wilt and and be the nail in that situ like he has talked about how his game has improved each year and if it does keep improving then you have something really great on your hands. There's just not enough consistency of of great here for me to be sold that that is definitely going to be the case.
I largely agree. I also did really like some aspects of the Jordan Tyson tape that we're talking about. the production is is it stands for itself and he is really really remarkable in some of these contested catch situations like you said sometimes doesn't survive contact but he can go up he does that little double jump like that big out route touchdown where he kind of like floats in the air then jumps up almost in flight he has some of those movements and then there are times where especially at like the let's call it the five to 10 yard line there's not a lot of space to work with you pretty much have to win at the line of scrimmage in those moments or you have to dunk on somebody is one of these wide receivers that can kind of Kyrie Irving himself into some separation even if there's not a lot of space. And I do think that we've seen some players like that where like Adam these little pylon routes and stuff after creating initial separation. I do think he can kind of do some of that stuff and I think those were some of his wow moments. Um and I I think that I would like him to maybe play less x receiver on the line of scrimmage. Let's get him off of press man coverage. And I I would I want him as a clear secondary target. He's not your backside ex-wide receiver type at all to me. And I feel comfortable if that's what we're going towards. But I think that's a different caliber player than he might be the number one wide receiver in this class.
Yeah. And that's not saying he can't be like the top pass cer on his team. Again, if everything comes together, he can be. But on the opposite side, you have like your sacrificial X guy. And with him, it's the movement, it's the spacing, it's the motions, it's getting him into these stacks and free releases. I thought it was not. And again, he came off a big season of high production. They tried to manufacture touches for him. Again, he's not a yak guy, so to me, it didn't go well at all. That's an area he knows he has to improve, but the zone feel is there. The like pure isolation route running chops are there. I do feel like at times the route running, he cares more about just individually routing up the man in front of him and forgets about like the timing and the pace of what the play and the rhythm is supposed to be. and it turns into like one-on- ones at the Senior Bowl type stuff. Yeah. Uh and it kind of takes them out of the play because it takes way too long.
For sure. For sure. I think the you'll see some anonymous scouts have some they'll take some shots on Jordan Tyson. I think there is some truth to what they're trying to say there. Um I I think the real big one is going to be the hamstring. This has been a long, long time. And we've seen from players in the NFL, they'll come back from their initial really serious injury and then they'll start picking up some soft tissue injuries and that's going to have some teams pretty nervous. So, I think aside from like what we've talked about in this video, like there is a chance that he might just slide a little bit further than people think and I wouldn't be surprised if like the hamstring is just scaring off a lot of teams. Um, and by the way, if you draft a clear secondary target in the back half of round one, you can still get fantastic value. Like not every round one wide receiver needs to be the number one target on your team to provide value. Look across the league. Like number two, number three wide receivers are getting paid tons and tons of money. There's a lot of value with that. So I think even if we're putting a cap on like what he could be right now, I still think like somewhere in the 20s, maybe for me closer to the 30s, I think I would still uh roll the dice.
I'm with you. Uh it is too enticing. The good is too good for me to just be out on a player like this. That's for sure. As you can tell, hey, and I do not compare notes. Somehow there's overlap. Maybe we're watching the same tape out there. I'm sure one of these or more we will have, uh, very, very different results and outcomes on. So, uh, go and watch another one of these videos. Hit that subscribe button right now. About 45% of you who have been watching our channel over the last four weeks have decided not to hit that subscribe button. Be a good person. Be kind. Smash it right now. And we'll see you over in the next video.