Patriots got a great player in N'Keal Harry
A 5 star recruit for ASU I had season tickets last year and he was the best player on the field every game.
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Watching film is my favorite part of this job because I get to see so many good, young players, especially when I’m doing these draft breakdowns. Every once in a while I even get to see guys who are not only productive on the field, but also fun as hell to watch. Those are the kids who end up making me cuss while I watch their film.
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Well, watching N’Keal Harry’s tape had bad words just spilling out of my mouth. This kid looks like a Pro Bowl punt returner with the ball in his hands.
There were a couple of plays that made this obvious, where he cut all the way back across the field to gain big yardage on what should have been a short catch.
He was incredible on both of those plays, breaking tackles and making guys miss all over the field. However, a lot of times cutting across the field like that is ill-advised, so I would never count on a receiver to do that on a regular basis (although the fact he was successful doing it more than once is not something that can’t be easily ignored, either). While those plays were outstanding, I didn’t necessarily mean just those kinds of plays.
When I say he looks like a punt returner, I was referring to how Harry usually finds ways to maximize his yards after the catch if he sees any daylight at all. He just had a knack of being able to make tacklers miss in a phone booth, even when it looked like they had him dead to rights.
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