Yahoo Sports’ ‘Draft Live’ crew reacts to the Los Angeles Chargers selecting Ole Miss WR Tre Harris in the second round of the draft.
Trey Harris, wide receiver, Ole Miss is the Chargers pick perfect fit.
This is a perfect fit because they needed an ex receiver, uh, and they, yeah, they have Lad McConkie who can play outside.
He was actually more efficient from a yards per out run perspective as an outside receiver than he is as an inside receiver, uh, which makes sense because he can beat man coverage.
He smokes man coverage in the intermediary of the field.
He’s not just some little bunny hop slot receiver fits.
We talked about that on the Sanders exactly.
We, we talked about that on the draft show.
Last year, but what they didn’t have is a guy who can play ex-receiver again, the farthest outside boundary player who can beat pressman coverage because they drafted Quentin Johnson to be that guy the previous staff, and they just misevaluated him straight up like he’s not, he’s, he can be a useful player, but you, he can’t play X and and Trey Harris can do that.
He did that at Ole Miss and he’s a developmental guy.
uh, he’s he’s ran an incomplete route tree over 40% of his routes that I charted were go or curl.
I mean.
So he’s got again he’s gonna need some developing, but they can put him on the field and at least early just be a sacrificial ex receiver man, clear a box clear a guy out of the box for the run game, open things up for Lad McConkie that’s fine.
Even allow like Quentin Johnson to just be a Z receiver and run in breaker.
So it’s the exact guy they didn’t have before and, uh, you know, again, I’m not, I’m like kind of mixed on Harris.
I’m, I generally really like him, but he does have some scary comparables like I think I told you this, Charles at his.
Reception perception profiles like eerily similar to Terrace Marshall out of LSU, but but I do, but I do like Harris better than that because I think he tracks the ball better.
He’s more combative and consistent against Prescott.
Let me ask you this.
How do you feel about his traits as far as what he performed this year at the combine and how, how, like what, what’s the actual ceiling here if he can actually get better?
I like the actual ceiling, well, yeah, he ran a 4 or 5, which I, I think he plays.
Faster than that and I think his speed of the 45 slow but shows yeah but it was I mean for a sacrificial ex because because I think he does stress defenses vertically and I think it’s mostly because like he kind of builds up like longer speed he’s got longer strides and I think he’s better at like tracking the deep ball than he is like separating like but but his go route success rate was over 60%.
Like he definitely can be a guy that wins deep for them which they just didn’t have last year.
So, um, again I really like the pick.
He is a little bit developmental.
Like, is he ready to come in like some of these rookie receivers and be a fantasy starter?
Not necessarily, but he could be a guy that makes the other players around him better.
Let’s think about what the Chargers have done as a whole, right?
They take Omar Hampton in the first down and now Trey Harris, obviously they’re looking around and saying, hey, we need to bring in some explosiveness.
We need something that can help us be more dynamic offensively, and my God, if you watched the Chargers play at all last year, you felt that to your core.
Like I, you made the joke last night, but.
You know how often was it like run the ball, run the ball, run the ball and I was like, hey Justin, sorry, it’s 3 and 8.
He joke the point of analysis that was the reality and talk about like when Higgins went like there’s only so many Xbo types available or in theory X-body types available and you mentioned we talked about with Jackson Dart in that Ole Miss offense.
Well this is the receiver.
End of being in that type of offense that is very it it scores points but limited in the asks.
The thing what is nice is now going to Greg Roman Harbaugh offense.
It’s very traditional run heavy but then play action off of it.
The most common run or pass concepts off play action are posts, overs, corners, all the stuff that he’s run vertical stuff where he.
Can get some runway speed on it.
So actually even his asks earlier will be fairly simple, which is the most easy routes in football.
But OK, that at least he can do those things well because I think that’s how he’s gonna be used originally before maybe we can add some branches to the route tree.
And guess what, we already have our, our, our route runner.
We already have a number one.
You didn’t need you need tools.
Now you need the guy that’s the explosive weapon down the field.
