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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 192332, member: 27"] I agree that 40 times aren't the end all when assessing deep threat WRs. Our best deep threat WR in recent years was Mike Williams, and he wasn't a great burner (though not slow either). Some players have the uncanny ability to pull away from a defender consistently on deep routes. Graham for instance would kill Sales in a foot race but Sales has been better getting open deep. I haven't seen any of the young WRs show a consistent ability to get open deep. Kobena did it a few times, Lemon and West can get open deep on occasion as well. To be fair, I have barely seen Foster, Hale or Fleming run deep routes, and haven't seen Lewis or Cornelius play against D1 corners at all. Let's hope one or two of those guys have that something special to get open deep consistently. [/QUOTE]