Peoples-Jones an intriguing pick
By STEVE KING
I am intrigued – and probably a little excited – by the fact that the Browns on Saturday selected Michigan wide receiver Donovan People-Jones with their final pick in the NFL Draft, in the sixth round at No. 187 overall.
Intrigued by, and excited about, getting a guy from Michigan?
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Yeah. Why not?
One whose statistics weren’t that great?
Well, yes again. Absolutely.
And one who wasn’t taken until late in the draft?
Yes, sure.
OK, then why? Why did the drafting of Peoples-Jones draw my interest?
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Three reasons:
*Because the Browns need another wide receiver or two to go along with starters Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham Jr. When they want to go to multiple-wide-receiver sets, or if one of those two would get hurt, then the Browns are in big, big trouble.
*Because People-Jones has all the physical tools – size, strength, speed and hands – to do the job. He is a great athlete. There is nothing he lacks.
*Because he’s much, much better than his statistics – or lack thereof, as it were – would seem to indicate. He never got a chance in college to show what he could do. Michigan’s offense was so messed up during his time there that he never was the focus of the passing game, as he should have been. He’d make a big catch early on in a game and then, for whatever reason, was not targeted again for long stretches. Plus, the Michigan quarterbacks were so bad that, when he was targeted, they couldn’t get the ball to him. The way Peoples-Jones was used, or misused, is the picture-postcard of why the Michigan offense has struggled so much during the tenure of head coach Jim Harbaugh.
And, let’s be clear on this, that isn’t taking free shots at Ohio State’s arch rival. It’s just the truth. Ask any Wolverines fan and they’ll tell you that.
With the better – hopefully much better – coaching that he’ll receive with the Browns, he should begin to blossom. I truly believe that. But before that can happen, he’s going to have to get rid of some bad habits he’s picked up, one of which was becoming disinterested when he was being ignored in games.
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