Is WR Maclin Going to be a Bust? [Split Thread]

[papabear]

Originally Posted by Keith

Tough to compare Maclin and Bush since they lined up at different positions, but I can see similarities in how they run. Maclin did well out of the backfield; Bush is obviously a talented receiver. I have a similarly hard time evaluating/slotting Percy Harvin (/said without declaring where he is on my fantasy draft board either, of course).

Guys like Maclin and Harvin are hard for us civillians to evaluate. Those are the guys who really need to be interviewed so you can grill them on their route tree in their current system and see how high their WR IQ is. A lot of the guys in the spread run a drag route or a go route most of the time...both just designed to let them use their superior physical talent. Just because a guy hasn't been in a complicated passing system doesn't mean he's not capable of handling it.