Wide receiver is a funny position, isn't it? There are some guys who are just completely built to be hall of famers, they have all the size and speed you could hope for, but for one reason or another simply cannot play the position. Then you have guys who are small or slow or both who somehow are geniuses at getting open. Bob will like this reference because he's white: Wayne Chrebet. The dude was small and relatively slow but that mofo was ALWAYS open. Open as in wide-ass open, not NFL-open. No-one-within-five-yards-of-him open.
I have no idea what Steve Smith's combine was like (or if he was even invited) but I do know that teams passed on him 73 times that draft. The first WR taken in 2001 was David Terrell. Terrell has the perfect size to play the position but could not. Steve Smith is smaller than I am and will go straight to Canton.
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