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Originally Posted by barrett
I went yesterday and I agree it was just way too crowded to enjoy it. They hand out twice as many tickets as they should. I was there by 7:15 and didn't come close to the bleachers. I ended up at the front of a group in the endzone that must have been 5-6 deep. I went and got water about an hour in for my son and didn't see anything after that.
From what I did see, Hopkins really impresses me. He looked great coming out of his breaks. He ran a little 7 yard option route in the slot against man coverage and would have scored a long TD in a game setting. He was out of his break and turned up field while Daneal Manning was still breaking. He is a very sudden athlete and a big play threat. He is a "fast in a phone booth" type. He also really attacks the football rather than letting it come to him (this suprised me since I think his football background is somewhat limited for a prospect of his level, being a basketball guy until a few years ago).
I think we have a real player there.
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Thanks Barrett, I appreciate your elaboration of Hopkins. I was just buried so deep in the crowd standing around the EZ, then there was the Texan players who were standing in front of them and watching but not participating in the scrimmage, I got nothing more than a brief glimpse of Hopkins. But now you are another pair of eyes and you too are saying we may have scored big in this Draft to secure some real help in our passing game, and that's very encouraging.