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It's a stretch, but it could be argued that, like Butt, a healthy Chesson may have been first or second round caliber in this draft. Say just for the sake of argument he doesn't get injured in that Citrus Bowl and he builds on his 2015 performance. The big difference with him compared with Butt is that he's ready to go right now, not months down the road.
And he was still good in 2016. He just wasn't quite what he was a year prior.
And I'll say it again: he may not be a project at all. He's played for two years under Harbaugh in a pro style offense. This is not Junior Hemingway. Chesson knows the route tree. He blocks. He has great hands. He wins contested balls. He already does pretty much everything you want a receiver to do. He just needs to up it to NFL caliber. Like literally everyone else drafted this week.
I think what he needs most is to make sure he gets his legs back under him, so he has those 2015 wheels again, and get some upper body strength on him to help him with press coverage.
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