What Could a WR Like Rome Odunze Could do for Daniel Jones?

Locked On NFL Draft's Damian Parson on What a WR Like Rome Odunze Could Do for Daniel Jones

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00:00 Damian, I want to talk about receivers because as I mentioned, I think the Giants are going to go

00:04 receiver in the first round. You've got the big three. You've got Harrison Jr., Adunze, Malik

00:09 Neighbors. I'm sure other guys have helped their stock. But the first part of my question is,

00:14 is did that ranking in your mind or in the scouting department, the scouting community,

00:20 did that change any? Did one guy maybe rise above the other? And then the second question I have

00:25 for you is, how much can one of those guys really help to elevate, say, a rookie quarterback or any

00:31 quarterback's game for that matter, especially when you have a guy like Daniel Jones, who it

00:35 looks like they're going to run it back with him, who has been skittish, as you said, and who really

00:41 hasn't had a number one receiver since he's been here? Yeah, I think, you know, of course, with

00:45 Marvin Harrison Jr. not, you know, testing, he won't do any testing this entire process. He's

00:51 like, listen, you guys seen my tape, see you in training camp, right? Or see your rookie OTAs.

00:56 And Malik Neighbors, you know, he didn't test. He didn't even, if I remember correctly, I don't

01:01 believe he measured in or did medicals either. He might do medicals, but I don't think he measured

01:05 in. In India, I think he's waiting to do everything at his pro day with Jaden Daniels and

01:10 everything. So it was Roma Adunze that really popped off to me, measuring in at 6'3", 2'12",

01:16 32 and a quarter on the arm, over nine inches on the hand. But he ran a 4'4", 5", a 1'5", 2" split,

01:23 jumped nearly 40 inches, had a 10'4", a 6'8", 8'3" cone and a 4'0" 3" in a short shuttle. And he

01:31 just showed that size, that athleticism, that smoothness to his game. He's very smooth with

01:37 his route running, his break points, everything, understanding how to get free from man-to-man

01:42 coverage. And then he has the athleticism to, again, we watched the tape all season.

01:46 If they left Roma Adunze at one-on-one, Michael Penney Jr. was looking right in that direction.

01:51 I was like, "Okay, you want to give me my guy on the island? I'm throwing that back shoulder fade

01:55 to him." And that's where you look at, okay, how can he help Daniel Jones? He gives him a bigger

02:00 target on the outside that Daniel could just say, "You know what? He's down there somewhere,

02:05 and I can put him in his vicinity." I call Roma Adunze, one of those receivers I call

02:09 an area code receiver, where you just got to get into his area code. It doesn't have to be in the

02:15 exact location, the exact address, just get it within the city limits, and he can make a play.

02:20 And that's what he's able to do on a consistent basis, down in and down out.

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