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WR Rashad Greene, Florida State -- There are several reasons I'm more down on Greene than most folks, but let's start from the top. Rashad Greene is probably a slot receiver at the next level, at 5'11", 180 lbs, he evaporates against physical coverage. He's going to need to thicken up for the next level, but when he's running a 4.5 40, it's not clear how much more he can add without losing any speed advantage he barely has to begin with. His hands are excellent, I mean really, really good, although part of that comes with having college football's best QB reliably place the ball for you. Greene does run fairly sharp routes, which he's going to need in order to separate at the next level. He's also not a game breaker -- he's not dynamite with the ball in his hands and he's not making a ton of people miss. You can probably find a spot for Greene in your intermediate passing attack, but he's not fast enough for the deep game and not physical enough to survive on the outside. His biggest advantage is his get-off -- he can get to those intermediate zones as fast as anybody in this draft, but that's a result of his very good quickness, not any elite speed he could possibly have. Ultimately there's too many questions around him, particularly how he'll look when he doesn't have the league's best QB and a vastly superior OL creating time for him. As a slot WR who's only really valuable between the 20s, his importance to me is greatly diminished.
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