A few of them are even bigger and faster, like Bryce Lance, who posted the 23rd highest RAS of all time!Please check out part 1 here, and the SiYAA article, if you are unfamiliar. Now, let’s get to:Mid-Round Big Fast FreaksBryce Lance: 6-3, 204. Consensus Board: 93.

RAS: 9.95. SiYAA: N/A (Small School, but he was awesome there.) (Ranks 23rd all-time in RAS)Trey’s little brother went to the same school (North Dakota State), but instead of throwing balls with his small hands, he decided to catch them. NDSU is great at picking out raw, hyper-athletic talent that falls through the big conference cracks, but their run-first system, and gimmicky passing plays make it tough to get an accurate read on their receivers.I remember when Christian Watson was in school, also at NDSU, and I was also having trouble getting a read on him for a long time.

My breakthrough, as it were, came when I was watching some film on Northern Iowa’s Isaiah Weston. You may not know who Weston is, but he had one of the highest RAS scores in his class (9.67) almost on par with Watson (9.97). He was tall like Watson, extremely fast for a big man, like Watson, and fortunately for me, he played against Watson.I’m not the greatest tape-watcher and freely admit it, and I’m not even sure how to put this to words properly but watching that game it was immediately clear just HOW much better Watson was.

Weston was fast, for sure, and even caught a few bomb touchdowns, but he ran like a track star. Watson just moved differently. His change of direction, his instinctual knowledge of where to go, and his burst was just on another level.

And so, I became a huge Watson fan.I don’t really have a Weston to put up against Lance, and he’s a little smaller, but he definitely has some wiggle to his game. I don’t think he’s Watson, but he can really move, he’s great on their simple little backfield swing routes, and he hits another gear at the second level that makes everyone else look like they’re standing still. His 9.250 hands may lead to some fumbling issues, and he’ll have to learn the route tree, but he’s also not just a strict burner.

He’s a mid-rounder because he’s raw, and normally 23-year-olds (who will turn 24 before the season starts) do not have ceiling left, but due to Lance’s circumstances, he likely does, and that ceiling is pretty high. Ja’Kobi Lane: 6-4, 200. Consensus Board: 109.

RAS: 9.36. SiYAA: 141I’ll bet the consensusboard is more wrong this year than it’s ever been, because this is a weird, narrow draft. There’s not a lot of star power, and just at a macro level, I think there are a ton of guys who will go in the fourth (or later!) that could easily be second rounders.

Lane is currently 109th on the consensus board, which would put him in the early fourth, but in The Beast, Dane Brugler has Lane as WR24, in the fifth (pick 141 or higher). Our next entry is also all over the place in terms of rankings. It’s a weird year.I fall in with Dane Brugler on Lane, who posted a solid RAS, with excellent explosion metrics, but he didn’t run agilities (who does?) and had a pedestrian 10/20-yard split on his 4.47 40.

He also wasn’t as productive as he should have been. I’ll happily cut some slack for a lack of volume (Lane’s 18.5 team target percentage is one of the lower numbers in this draft class) playing next to Makai Lemon, but the attention Lemon draws should have resulted in better per play work from Lane, who was just 12% better than average.It’s not all bad of course. I mentioned Lance’s tiny mitts, so I should also mention that Lane has an enormous catch radius and big paws (10.5), and he was a weapon around the end zone as a result.

Unfortunately, he’s also extremely slender, he can get bullied, and if you’re looking for a willing blocker, look somewhere else. He’s likely to get thrown off his route at the next level if he doesn’t add some weight, and for a guy that already takes some time to get up to speed, weight can be a double-edged sword. I could see him working in the right role, but he’s a weird tweener, as he’s not quite a pure burner, but not always up to the task of possession receiver.

Then again, if he really does fall into the fifth round, you could do much worse.De’Zhaun Stribling: 6-2, 207. Consensus Board: 99. RAS: 9.55.

SiYAA: 238My favorite of the group is Stribling, who sits at 99 on the consensus boards, but as a second or third rounder in The Beast. In the bowels of the APC slack chat, some have accused the Ole Miss offense of being “kinda fa