Keon Coleman

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1	Keon Coleman	Wide Receiver	Florida State	4-Star Recruit (93)	Junior
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3	Positional Rank	Grade	Height	Weight	2023 PFF Grade
4	12	Late 3rd	6'3	213	70.3
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6	Year	Targets	Receptions	Yards	Touchdowns
7	2023	87	50	658	11
8	2022	88	58	798	7
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10	Year	Wide Snaps	Slot Snaps	Catch Percentage	Yards / Reception
11	2023	280	119	57.47%	13.16
12	2022	393	23	65.91%	13.76
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14	Overview:
15	Strengths:	Notes:
16	Smooth Movements	He is a fluid and natural mover at 6'3 213lbs.
17	Hands	Two drops against Louisville, but none throughout the rest of the season.
18	Ball Skills	Despite only catching 33.3% of contested catches this season, he clearly has a huge catch radius and tremendous ball skills.
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20	Weaknesses:	Notes:
21	Top-End Speed	He is not a burner and will not take many screens to the house.
22	Suddenness	His routes are mostly rounded with little release diversity and few false moves at the onset of the route. This also prevents him from creating his own separation in man coverage.
23	Execution	His release package is shown scattered throughout his tape, but is rarely effective. He is billed as a big time contested catch guy, but only hauled in 10 for 30 on the season. His mid route acceleration and certain routes where he seems to theoretically understand nuance typically still fail to pull away from his man. He has excellent potential, but must improve his execution of what it appears he already understands.
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25	Film
26	Game	Takeaways				Notes:
27	Clemson (09/23/2023) Statline: 5-86-2	Decent blocking technique and positioning. Nice use of fame. Fluid for 6'4. Acceleration appears slow. Good blocker. Great use of size for double move technique. Not great stop-start, but understands releases. Great lateral acceleration after route misdirection. Crisp hands catcher. Reliable target from the slot as well as out wide. Poor contested catch attempt (Only caught 4 of 14 so far on the season). Better in traffic where he uses his frame to gain an advantage than he is going up in contested catch situations. Does not appear overly aggressive. Not gaining much separation down the field. Ended with a nice contested catch to win the game.				2nd-3rd round tape. Good lateral acceleration for his size, but doesn't translate to crisp route running or RAC ability. Poor aggression in contested catch situations, but good hands with zero drops so far on the season.
28	Wake Forest (10/28/2023) Statline: 7-66-2	Smooth mover and catcher. Not a creator or necessarily have crisp route movements. Not separating on his own in man. Decent pick into open space. Completely blanketed on vertical routes, even over the center. Very poor deceleration on pivots steps to curl. Simply blanketed in man on all levels. Long arms to stiff arm competition and run for touchdown. Good catch on second touchdown, but still in tight coverage. Skip release is not sudden in the slightest. Right idea on false move attempt. Good hands catches. Uses frame very well. Good line moves - just needs to work on hip depth and explosiveness. Consistently gains positioning on shallow routes and in the red zone. Noticeably long arms.				2nd-3rd round tape again. A giving the bump due to prototypical X size and excellent positioning on shallow routes versus man coverage. Mid 2nd round grade.
29	Louisville (12/02/2023) Statline: 4-19-0	Good movement after the catch for his size. Surprisingly elusive in the open field. Lacks top end speed. Rounded routes. Does not pull away from man coverage too easily. Drop step. Average deceleration at best. Plays inside and out. Slight hop step release that was very ineffective. Good mid route acceleration. Two drops. All four receptions came on screens. Needs to create more separation.				Late day two grade at best.
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31	Attributes		Grade / 100	Notes
32	Separation	Short	37	Simply does not create short area separation, although his screen footwork and whip routes are surprisingly clean.
33		Medium	55	Drag routes and hitches are consistently effective. His head turns extremely fast on breaks, but his footwork is nonexistent.
34		Deep	30	Typically blanketed through the duration of deeper routes.
35	Release	Stance	85	Slightly narrow, requiring countermovement to accelerate.
36		Acceleration	67	This could be much higher given his athletic ability, but does not show up as much on tape.
37		Footwork	56	Not inefficient, but lacks much of a release package.
38	Hands	Catch reliability	94	Very sure hands when out in space.
39		Catch radius	95	He can get up there and high point the ball at 6'3.
40		Contested catch	90	A lot of his failed contested catches were not entirely his fault regarding his positioning, particularly those occurring against zone coverage, but this is still generous given his 33.3% contested catch rate in 2023.
41	RAC	Athleticism	90	What he can do at his size is rare, but most reps do not showcase his athleticism.
42		Agility	70	Operates better laterally with the ball in his hands than he does on his routes and release.
43		Contact balance	85	Harder than expected to bring down in the open field.
44	Blocking	Technique	85	Can drive defensive backs far away from the play, but does not always make contact or angle favorably.
45	Blocking	Willingness	80	Could be a bit more aggressive in looking for blocks.
46	Coverage	Press	49	Simply does not separate from press, but gains positioning for contested catches better from press than off coverage.
47	Coverage	Off	57	Better over the middle against off and zone coverage, but does not understand exactly where to sit underneath just yet.
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49	Final Scouting Report
50	Despite playing both in the slot and on the outside at Florida State, Coleman is clearly a boundary wide receiver at the next level. He is a great athlete with good ball skills, but has yet to learn how to separate at any level of the field against any coverage type. His 30 contested catch attempts occurred because he was covered throughout the duration of the majority of his routes. Much of his production came from screens and contested catches, and most of his other production came from linear routes over the middle and simple hitches along the sideline. Coleman is a great athlete at his size, particularly with the ball in his hands, but has a very limited effective route tree. Coleman is clearly still learning how to play wide receiver. His release package is not diverse, his break footwork is not crisp, and he does not separate over the top. Against zone coverage, he does not always sink into the optimal spots when curling from the slot. Florida State found a way to get the ball in his hands often, but Coleman did not earn all of his targets on standard routes. He scored many of his touchdowns on contested catches, and should continue to be a red zone threat in the NFL. The reason Coleman has a third round grade is because of his potential. He will still be 20-years-old on the night of the draft, and has remarkable athleticism at 6'4, 215lbs. He can become a true X wide receiver in the NFL with a lot of coaching and more experience, but he could just as easily fizzle out and become irrelevant after his first contract. His landing spot, work ethic, and hands-on coaching will be absolutely pivotal for his career success.
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52	Playstyle
53	Best Route	Drag Route. He does not need to implement nuance or refined footwork to succeed with this route, and his frame and ball skills provide a big target over the middle.
54	Worst Route	Outside Release Slant. Against press coverage, his footwork at the line is not crisp enough to create separation. He must utilize his frame to his advantage when cutting or pivoting quickly instead of attempting a false move, and does not manufacture immediate space for quick timing routes with footwork alone.
55	Pro Comparison	Tee Higgins. Higgins has better zone separation, understands how to pull away towards the catch point, and is a bit more aggressive towards opposing cornerbacks, but Coleman is slightly better after the catch.
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57	Post-Combine Update:
58	His disappointing combine is dropping his grade significantly. An athletic project who lacks athletic testing numbers is highly concerning.
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