Quan's a sleeper

While some draft experts and the media are quick to doubt Texas WR Quan Cosby because he's only 5-foot-9, they're truly missing the big picture.

Cosby has three important attributes that are going to help his chances of success in the NFL—quickness, great hands and maturity. As I watched him at the Senior Bowl earlier this year, he was consistently converting poorly thrown balls into catches. It didn't matter if the ball was thrown too high, too low, or behind him. Cosby kept pulling them in. I honestly can't recall seeing him drop a pass. His body control and concentration on the football was simply that good.

7 months ago patienthornsfan 1 comment 0 recs |

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He dropped a few

Almost always long balls where he had beaten his man and couldn’t make the over-the-shoulder, it seemed like. I can understand how that was outside of his comfort zone and he probably got really excited about actually making a big catch like that. He was so damn good with the short stuff, though, you can’t really hold it against him.

I feel like he was the leader of our WR corps. In the big games this past season, it was always Quan who could somehow make every catch when no one else could catch a cold. I think him going out at the Tech game really hurt us. Who else remembers the Benny-Hill style drops by all of our WRs in the first half? Including Shipley dropping what would have been a 60 yard TD pass after he had beaten his man and got hit in the hands.

Malcolm Williams: AKA “Someone set us up the bomb!”

by Horn Brain on Mar 31, 2009 9:00 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs