I'd rather have Demaryius than Taylor and I do like Taylor.
The hype from his production and some of his clips, that's mid-1st round quality hype...and I don't think he's worth that. When I go about talking about things I don't like about him, speed calibration, stuff like that...it's always with that in mind.
But, if he's available at #43, I can think of a lot of candidates for that #43 spot that I would not take over Demaryius Thomas.
Bottom line is he's easily the most physical player in the draft and what that means he will be able to do for your team is always find a way to make your roster, and always find a way to make your active duty roster on game day. You could bring him out onto the field to block from the perimeter on Wildcat plays and it would be worth having him there. He's that good. He doesn't just make big plays in the passing game, he made big plays in the running game. That Wreck offense doesn't have the same big play ability if he's not out there blocking downfield. I just watched a game the other day where Anthony Allen busted out like an 87 yard TD run that would have been more like 15 yards if Demaryius didn't happen to be a ridiculous blocker.
Plus a guy that physical, how could he NOT play special teams? You know he'd be great there.
The guy regularly stiff-arms defenders into the dirt. What does that translate to? Cheap yards. And Miami's offense is all about cheap yards. They love to throw those little screens and let a receiver make one guy miss. Demaryius may not be able to consistently outrun people but he can regularly make one guy miss or just pop a fist in his face and send the guy into the grass. Cheap yards on 1st down, creating a 2nd & 3 or 2nd & 2...that's what Miami is about, whether I particularly like it or I don't.
I'd love the guy on my team. My biggest concern with him, Slimm may have already said this I'm not sure...is consistency. He doesn't run consistently. That gear-down on the out route he does two things really well that create the separation and one thing pretty poorly. He gears down poorly, but on the other hand he was patient with the route and he cut it back to the ball nicely. Thing is, even later you can see another instance of him running the deep out and this time there is zero issue with gear down, and he still cuts back to the ball nicely, but then he fails to haul it in.
Is that the kind of player he is? Two things nice and one thing not so nice? If so he'll piss off the coaches.
But then when I see him block and be physical and make cheap yards happen, show such strong hands...I'd still take him on my team. He's a better prospect than Pat Turner was.
