All Throws Lead to Rome.

All Throws Lead to Rome.

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Coming after the Super Bowl iie draft season which is when this is going to be posted this is obviously a romad Dun video the first of many many many in-depth Prospect reviews that we have coming and I started with the dun because I think he is the most unfortunate Prospect in this class

Because in any other year he would be Far and Away wide receiver one like he is that talented he is an incredible receiver but he just so happens to be in the same class as Marvin Harrison Jr so yeah like I said unfortunate but that doesn’t mean that I can’t take time

Today to talk about why in most years he’d be the number one receiver all of his traits his skill set his projected role in the NFL and of course his ideal player comp for somebody who’s already in the league let’s get to it let’s start with the obvious strengths to

Rome’s game which are his physicality and his just unreal ball skills whenever he gets contested catch opportunities adun was one of the most dominant Ball winners in the nation last year with an absurdly high 67.7% contested catch rate and keep in mind a great contested catch

Rate is like 55% so he was almost 13% higher than that and there were times where DBS clearly knew that like a back shoulder fade was coming just based on the split that aduni was lined up in and it just didn’t matter he would catch those anyway Rome is just such a

Naturally gifted tracker of the ball in the air that it’s rare that I ever see him truly misjudge a throw and deep ball tracking is a skill in its own right by the way not every receiver has ball skills at every depth of the field but adun does there’s a great example of

That skill on a particular touchdown he caught against Cal early in the season where he had to muscle his way through press man coverage stack on the corner and then look for the ball and he clearly thought the throw was going to go straight vertically up the seam but

Just based on the positioning of the post safety in this single high covered structure Michael penx decided to throw it outside away from that safety and he trusted Rome to just go make the adjustment without missing a beat adun took his eyes off the ball swung his

Head around the other way relocated the ball again in a split second and then finished the catch for a touchdown I know this looks like a simple catch but it absolutely is not this is an extremely difficult adjustment to make on the Fly that quite frankly not many

Receivers can do college or Pro but adun justo happens to be one of the few that can he reminds me a lot of DeAndre Hopkins in that way where if you just put the ball in his zip code he’s going to find a way to get to it because his

Eyes are so sharp and he can locate the ball with his head cranked at even the most awkward of angles which again is not normal and he also shares in Hopkins physicality as well now that I mention it which I think is the other Elite tradeit of his both adun and Hopkins

Play at about 215 lbs or so as they’re playing weight maybe a few more pounds for Hopkins in his frame but still it’s relatively close and that’s big by wide receiver standards that size helps both of them just completely ignore contact in my opinion you see a lot of receivers

These days at like 185 190 195 they get thrown off track by a stiff breeze but Rome does not he always has Corners draped all over him and he’s still totally comfortable through all that J rocking for position late in the route and that’s a really valuable trait to me

Because separation is harder to come by against NFL Corners anyway and you can’t just count on being wide ass open all the time at the next level so you have to know how to shrug off press coverage with strength rather than quickness and you have to know how to survive a DB

Being on your back every time you get the ball adun knows how to do both of those things he’s built to do both of those things he can just outright muscle his way through a Jam at the line with a rip move right in the Corner’s face he

Doesn’t have to slow himself down by taking a rhythm step before he gets into the release just to try to back the corner off and he doesn’t have to take the long way around either with a shoulder dip like some smaller weaker receivers do he can just get straight to

The point and go right through the contact and once he does get off that jam obviously he’s still going to make the catch too whether the corner is still on his back or not to put it simply my evaluation of a Dun is this he

Is a grown ass man and that’s one of the highest possible compliments I can give to any Prospect if I was going to knock him on literally anything and keep in mind this is more just me grasping at straws than a true criticism I don’t necessarily see top tier burst on tape I

Think once he gets up to his second and third gear really stretching his legs down the field he has shown great speed before but I don’t think he gets up to that top speed as quickly as some of the other receivers in this class like barbin Harrison Jr Malik neighbors or

Brian Thomas Jr he’s still going to run somewhere in the four fours probably but you will notice a difference in just his raw short area burst in and out of breaks when you watch him and then you throw on Malik neighbors who pretty much just melt your face off every single

Play like it’s just a different level of speed there but again that is not a huge knock on Rome as a player and keep in mind my comp for him still as a true X receiver which is going to be predominantly lined up on the line of scrimmage going to war with press

Corners every single play that comp is DeAndre freaking Hopkins okay who’s thrived in a similar role for a long long time while running in the high four FS coming out of Clemson so all in all he’s going to be just fine if his long speed is solid let’s say in the mid to

High four fours and not blazing in the low 4 fours to 43s like speed is not everything Rome is going to be fine he’s a smooth enough route Runner he’s a physical enforcer both during the release and at the catch point and he has enough juice to still adequately

Stretch the field vertically while also being a truly Elite deep ball tracker when his quarterback does take shots down the field to me all those traits combined to make a day one starter in the NFL that has Pro Bowl potential early in his career if he’s paired with

A quarterback that will trust him to just go do what he does best win one-on-one and get the ball all right that’ll do it for Rome for today a quick reminder if you’re a member of our patreon at the dollar tier that’s going to give you access access to all my

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