Wide receivers come in all shapes and sizes, but there are trade offs. If a player doesn't have great speed or size, then he must have great quickness, and it is a huge bonus to have big-play ability as a returner in the kicking game if a receiver is undersized.
For the most part at the college level, gone are the days of the "smurf" receiver who was drastically undersized with cat-like quickness. Those receivers provide little in terms of red-zone production and force quarterbacks to be extremely accurate. Instead, coaches are now willing to trade elite quickness and speed for size, strength and the capability to provide mismatches in the red area.
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By Tom Luginbill
