- 3 months ago
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:05Texas A&M wide receiver KC Concepcion is without a doubt the most explosive player in this draft,
00:12but not to sound like a hater, he's only going to be drafted by the Giants if they lose Wondell
00:17Robinson in free agency. 511, buck 90, coming off of a 61 catch, 919 yard, 9 touchdown season.
00:27I mean, this kid's career numbers are absolutely bonkers. A buck 85 career catches, a little over
00:332,200 receiving yards, and 25 touchdowns, but you also have to add the 431 rushing yards and two
00:41touchdowns, as well as the two career pump return TDs at NC State and within his Aggies collegiate
00:48career. This kid is absolutely special, and I think that he'd eat in new offensive coordinators,
00:54Matt Nagy's offense, because that's all about route spacing, receivers being able to read
00:59coverages on the run to make quick decisions, and of course, this kid's going to get absolutely
01:03nasty with the yards after the catch. Concepcion checks all of those boxes, so here's a couple
01:10plays to show you guys how he'd add value to the offense, replace Wondell Robinson if they
01:16lose him, and possibly feast in his rookie year in this Blue Rush draft profile.
01:24All right, KC Concepcion, you're on the clock. You can see him lined up down here at the bottom
01:30of the screen, and that just kind of shows you that he can move around and play in different
01:35spots. He's got position versatility, as we like to call it, so let's run through the play,
01:41play the big play in a big moment of a football game, and we can kind of highlight what this
01:46kid could bring to the Giants. You see it off the RPO action, makes a guy miss, and then
01:51look at the wheels. Let's break this thing down. Again, his yards after the catch, you
01:58watch the tape, this kid is deadly. When he gets the rock in his hands, you can see it off
02:04the RPO game, and Matt Nagy is going to bring that RPO game or that concept from Kansas City
02:13here to New York or New Jersey. See him lined up here on the outside. He is the Z in
02:21this
02:21situation. Again, he plays the slot, line him up at X, play the Z. I mean, plays all over
02:27the place. So he's got the under route here. You can't really see the route. Here he is
02:32here breaking in. You've got this space here. If you've got a solid run game, then when you
02:38run that RPO and you show that run fake, it's going to have these linebackers step up, and
02:44that creates that void right there in the middle of the field, and you need a receiver that
02:50can catch and run. He is going to make guys miss and force missed tackles because, one,
02:58I think he's a lot stronger than just that 5'11", 190 frame, but he's so quick. He's going to
03:05make
03:06guys miss because they're going to have bad tackle leverage. You see him here, put his foot in the
03:10ground, and then he just runs away from the haters. Next, we're going to move, again, we're talking
03:16position versatility. We're talking about being able to find open spaces in zone, identifying
03:23coverages, identifying leverages of defensive backs. This is something that both NC State and Texas A&M
03:31used when it came to this kid, and that means putting him in the motion as a Z receiver. You
03:38see
03:38it here. We'll show you him in the slot as well, but he can play all over, so expect him
03:44to motion
03:45over. Now, what this does, let's watch the play. Go climb the ladder, young man, and make a big play.
03:56You see that? All right, you know, my bad. I get a little eager sometimes when it comes to wanting
04:02to
04:02just go ahead and go straight into the breakdown. So, again, motion him over. No one's coming with
04:11him, right? No one's chasing. So, what does that mean? It's zone. He's now identifying how he's going
04:18to run this route. You've got the go route here that's somewhat of a clear route. You've got the
04:23seam right here that's a clear route type seam. They're trying to clear this spot, this area for
04:31KC Conception. This is where the ball wants. This is where you're going to go with the ball
04:37on this play, whether it's zone or it's man. Squares up. You've got the blitz here. It's picked
04:45up. We're not worried about that. This is how I know that he's identified this as zone and not man
04:51to man. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt that when he came off the football,
04:56you kind of, through your peripherals, if you're a good wide receiver with vision, you can kind of see
05:01how this corner is playing because you're reading through this curl flat defender to this corner.
05:07That's like your left eye. Your left eye is doing that. Now, your right eye is kind of looking up,
05:13heading up, looking at this drop safety right here and what it is that he's trying to do. Again,
05:19you've identified it in your first five to six yards. All right, this is zone. I know where I need
05:25to be. So now that he sees this hook curl defender gaining depth because there's no work here. He's
05:35not going to jump that. There's no work right there. He does. KC Conception does a good job
05:42or letting this kind of clear out, allowing him kind of being the last man off the line of scrimmage
05:49and slightly trailing these guys to clear this, to clear that zone out. That lets me know that he
05:56understands when he's running the route, he understands he, that means that lets me know he
06:01collects data or data, data, data with his eyes, with the vision. And he understands the timing of
06:09these routes to kind of let that guy clear out just a little bit. I mean, ideally you want him
06:14to clear
06:15out a little bit more, but instead of chasing this guy and going in front, you wrap around this hook
06:21to curl defender. And now you understand that this clear out route leaves you with all of this space
06:29to the sideline. Obviously you would want a better throw. You would want it a little bit more towards
06:34the sideline that he can come out running. I believe this quarterback's getting hit right here. So he
06:39throws it up there and the knock on this kid is, oh, he's 5'10". He's not six foot. He's
06:44he's a little wide receiver. Ain't too many guys that's going up there climbing the ladder for a
06:49football like that. Now I've said his knock, I believe his knock is he lets the ball get to his
06:55body a little bit too much. But on this play right here, he went up there and showed that he's
07:01got
07:02some catch radius of his own. He plays a lot bigger than what that 5'10", for his 5'10",
07:07190 frame is.
07:09So great job allowing the clear out routes to clear out that space, identifying who that defender was
07:15that you were going to beat, and then climbing the ladder to go up and make a big boy play.
07:24See it here on the zone. I won't spend too much time here. See the quarterback is getting hit,
07:30but let's just watch the catch. He doesn't go up and get that. Or if he doesn't high point this
07:36ball,
07:36this is an interception at a big time of a football game. If he doesn't stretch his arms out and
07:44he's
07:44late with his arms, that's a tip ball, and that's usually going to be picked and go the other way
07:49for a pick six. So great job of him high pointing it, turning his body away from the contact. He
07:55knows
07:55he's going to get hit here, turns away from that corner, kind of from that corner to protect the
08:02football. All right, next play. Again, lining him up on the outside. Same game. A play needs to be made.
08:12This shows that he can run routes from the outside as well. This kid can do, he can do a
08:18little bit
08:19of everything. And he does a little bit of everything very well. So let's watch. Let's
08:24break it down. Got him with the out and up. And he goes and he attacks the football. Absolutely love
08:33it. I like it. I like it. I mean, you watch the tape on this kid, man. There's not much
08:37that he
08:38doesn't do, man. He has a lot. He puts a lot of his skill set on tape. And this has
08:44been a fun
08:45breakdown so far. All right. Running the route from the outside. Sell it. Sell it. He probably
08:52runs these speed outs. This is probably, you know, I forget what he had, 80 something catches
08:57this year, I believe. 60 something catches. Boom. Gives him something. Catches him in dead
09:06man's land. You've got your eyes to the receiver. You want to try and be a hero. I'm not going
09:10to
09:10give you too much. I'm going to just give you enough to make you think, make you think what
09:15you see is right. Sorry, stupid. Got you. I'm not calling you stupid, bro. I don't even know
09:21you, but I'm just saying that's how we talk to DBs. All right. Now here's what I like.
09:26He actually is going up for the football. He's going up to try and make a play on this football.
09:32My only thing is I want him to reach both arms out. I'm being nitpicky, but at the end of
09:37the
09:37day, you win. He wins. He wins on the route. He wins on the finish. Big play right here.
09:48So let's watch here on the tight. Won't focus too much on what's going on in here. Again,
09:53off the play action, you know where this ball is going. He knows exactly who this is going. And
09:57this is what I mean by wanting him to high point this a little bit more. He high points this.
10:03He
10:03stretches this out a little bit more. And again, I'm being nitpicky here. Stretches his arms out a
10:08little bit more here. That reduces the time from pluck and tuck. Sometimes football is a game of
10:16inches. As you guys know, it's a game of milliseconds or milliseconds from time to time. And that
10:24millisecond or two of pluck and tuck could help when it comes to this safety coming over here and trying
10:31to dislodge that football. Safety overruns the ball. So that helps him tremendously. But this kid
10:37shows, he shows some metal here, man. This kid shows some kahunas going up for this football knowing
10:42that you could be hit or there could be some sort of violent collision. Does, plucks it enough. Again,
10:52hold on, let me rewind that just a little bit. Again, I would like to see it extended here.
10:58Catch, pluck, put it away. But he did pluck. He did tuck. Again, I'm being nitpicky here. But a kid
11:05with this type of juice, a kid with this type of moxie, with the way he plays, you want to
11:12see him
11:12come down with every single football. And catching the football away from his body consistently, I think
11:19is going to add another dynamic or another element to his game when he reaches the NFL. But big play
11:26against some big time competition here.
11:30All right. You can't really see what's going on down here because of all this. But I just wanted
11:35to show you guys the catch and run. The catch we're going to talk about. But look at this.
11:41Look at the muscle. Get in there, you angry little hamster.
11:46We don't even have to even watch the route. Don't worry about the route. But this is what I mean
11:52about body catching. A lot of the times when guys let that ball get on their body, especially when
11:58there's people around, there's color around, as we'll call that, your mind, that'll take you off.
12:04That'll take your mind. That little split second that you, one, allow the body to come into your
12:10body. Two, allow your eyes to see color. Usually that ball comes off of the body at that point. How
12:16many
12:16times have we seen receivers drop this ball because they're allowing it to come into, they're being a
12:22body catcher. They're catching it with their body. Again, when I talk about him splitting, I mean him
12:28catching the ball out, extending his arms and catching it out. It just makes it a lot cleaner
12:33for him when it comes to yak. It helps his separation. But right here, he played above the X's and
12:38O's.
12:39He played above his competition. When he gets to the NFL, though, he's going to need that little extra
12:44step or two, that extra separation, catching the ball away from his body for a little wiggle
12:51room for yak. But again, played above the X's and O's here. Played above a bad technique
12:58and just put monsterism on tape. Look at my guy Theo right here. He's from Sweden. His tight end's
13:08from Sweden. I've worked with him before. And look at that. That's big play right there, man.
13:16That's taking two guys, putting the offense and two other grown young men on his back to get into
13:25the end zone. Man, this kid's special, man. This kid is going to be special. Let's watch it here real
13:32quick. Again, I've kind of made my points already. I want that. I want those arms extended. But you
13:39can't teach this. You can't teach this fight, y'all. All right. Last play here. Let's watch
13:48it. Down the field. Hey, good throw by that quarterback there. Look, I mean, he's making plays from
13:57wherever he wants. Line me up wherever you want, coach. Line me up wherever you want. He's on the
14:08top of the screen here. And we'll pause it here. Quarterback kind of gets hit. I like the way he's
14:13tracking the football. Still running. Not allowing him. Looking back for the football. Not allowing him
14:20to slow down. And just, I mean, look at the concentration here. This is what I want to see
14:26from him on a consistent basis in the NFL. Especially if he plays, gets drafted and plays
14:31for the Giants. The concentration catches. Be better at the concentration catches. This, he is
14:38locked in on this thing. He, there's no one coming down with this football but him. Knows he's going to
14:44get hit. Loves the way he still extends his arms there. Look, still extends his arms to go grab that
14:50football and he's going to get hit. I showed this because I wanted to show you how tough this kid
14:55is. Everybody's going to try and knock him. 5'10", 190. Some of these dudes, like, like Wandel Robinson.
15:025'8", 5'9". The kid gets hit. Hops right back up. That's, that, stuff like that, that, that gets
15:10respect from your teammates. Right there. That's a reason why guys, that, why people want to bring you in.
15:17This is, this is culture type football right here. Especially on an offense. Big play, boy.
15:24Look at it. Slip to the inside. Love it. Love it. Get the elbow. A lot of the times people
15:31are like,
15:31oh no, no, no, no, no. When we're talking about release moves, when it comes to receivers and
15:35releases, go for the wrist. No, don't go. Yeah, you, the wrist, you're just going to slap that hand off.
15:41You get that elbow. You now control that, that, that DB. You now control how much force or torque
15:49he can put on this press. He knows I got, all I have to do is beat this inside hand.
15:55I'm going inside,
15:57beat the inside hand. I'm not even worried about that left hand. So boom. Gets the hand off.
16:04Replaces. Now he's got this DB and an oh shoot feeling. This DB, he's powerless. Gets vertical on the
16:13stem. I'd like to see him run a little bit more. Take three hard steps after you beat that press
16:18to get, to get past this receiver. I mean, get past this DB. I'm thinking this is some sort of
16:24post route because if this was a go route and you go inside, we want to widen back outside to
16:31stay away
16:32from the safety, to stay away from that hit. So I'm thinking maybe this is some sort of little
16:36slight post here where he's just going to stay skinny and try and split the difference between
16:41the DB and the safety. But if it was a go route, I would be critiquing the route a little
16:47bit more,
16:47wanting him to get back outside, stay away from the safety. But at the end of the day,
16:52came down with the football. Last but not least, three punt return touchdowns in his collegiate career.
17:02If the Giants can add a guy like this, let's say it takes him a little bit to get adjusted
17:07to being
17:07a receiver, a playmaker at receiver. You can get him going by putting him back there at punt return
17:13and saying, you know what, while you're trying to figure out what the route, what the routes and
17:18our conversions are here, let me make this easy for you and find space to get the football into your
17:25hands. This kid is going to be a playmaker no matter where he goes. And if he falls to the
17:32Giants at 37 or they even have to trade back up to go get him, it's going to make it,
17:37it will make
17:38sense for them if they do that. Touchdown, baby. That's teach tape with how this kid gets open.
17:47Like, you see how this kid has that elite short area separation, the position versatility that he
17:53would add to the Giants offense, and of course, the yak element of his game. This kid is what we
17:59receivers call Yak God. So if Wondell Robinson gets the bag somewhere else in free agency,
18:05the Concepcion could be that guy that come in and take over his role on day one. Matt Nagy could
18:11get
18:12creative with this kid. You could put him in the slot as a Z in motion, you could put him
18:17in stacks
18:17and bunches, and that's going to create mismatches. You're going to allow Jackson Dart to have an
18:23underneath target or underneath weapon with big play capability. But here's the thing. The 19 drops
18:31in his college career is an absolute red flag to me, and it just doesn't sit right with me. He
18:37lets
18:38the ball get onto his body too much. He is what we call a body catcher during his college career,
18:45and that's not going to work out in the league. Everyone agrees that this kid is one of the most
18:52dynamic and explosive playmakers when he steps on the football field. But those concentration drops,
18:59those are the risks to the reward. He's a scheme fit that can be a plug-and-play guy,
19:05and he adds that big play catch-and-run element to any offense or special teams. Now, I don't think
19:10there's any way in heck that the Giants are going to take him fifth overall, but he's another guy,
19:15just like Washington Huskies receiver Denzel Boston, that I can see the Giants trading back into the
19:21first round to grab, or maybe they pray that he falls to them at 37. The conception of drafting
19:27Concepcion is a risk with the drops, but the big play is the reward.
Comments