STRENGTHS
Trey is your typical slot receiver/special teams, impact offensive player. Think of Stephen Diggs or Julian Edelman or Cole Beasley and that should give you a good picture of Trey’s overall talent and potential to impact. Trey has good size and quickness to run his routes and get in and out of his breaks. He is a physical receiver with quick feet but what he really brings to your passing offense is physical toughness with soft sure hands to catch the ball. Trey plays bigger than his size and has a large catch radius because of his excellent hand /eye coordination and because he will catch and fight for any ball thrown around his vicinity. He will fight for every yard after the catch and that makes him hard to bring down gaining those all-important yards after the catch to move the chains. Trey will adjust to the ball in this air and make the acrobatic catch. He is a smart route runner and a double move genius and there is no more polished slot receiver in this draft than Trey is. Trey brings the mental toughness that will challenge other receivers on his own team, to match that mental toughness. He also will challenge his opponents to tackle him and if they don’t use good form, then he will break that tackle.

CONCERNS
Yes, you can catch him from behind IF… you can catch him after he separates from you. Trey is a pure slot receiver and this will downgrade him on some team’s boards but in the red zone he is an “any position” receiver so as far as I’m concerned…it’s a wash.

BOTTOM LINE
Trey is a “what you see, is what you get” type receiver. Here’s the catch, what you see is a touchdown, move the chains, mental toughness, physical, acrobatic, soft hands, red zone match up nightmare… of a receiver. That’s what I see and that’s what you get. You want to select a different receiver in this draft because they might be faster…go ahead, I dare you. I’ll take Trey and you and your “check all the boxes” receiver can watch my team with Trey in the slot, scoring touchdowns, in the Super Bowl. Every year we go through this buffet of wide receivers in the draft. Teams always looking for speed instead of mental toughness and quickness. Speed can’t catch the ball. Speed can’t make a player catch the ball. All speed can do is get a player down the field faster than another player. If that player with speed can’t do what is necessary to catch the ball guess what…that speed guy is of no use to your quarterback. He may be use to your offensive coordinator when he makes game plans before the game but, once the game starts if he can’t catch the ball that speed guy is useless. Trey is not a speed guy, he is a “catch the ball” guy and like I stated before, I’ll take my guy who can catch the ball rain or shine, or in the snow, sleet, hail, high winds and freezing cold, over your guy who can just get down the field faster than anyone else. But that’s just me…Talking to Myself™. As of this writing it doesn’t look like Trey is on many teams’ boards nevertheless…he’s on mine. But, Julian Edelman is 5’10”, from Kent State, undrafted, Cole Beasley is 5’8”, SMU undrafted but Stephen Diggs is 6’0”, 5th Rd and played at Maryland. Trey Quinn is 6’.0” 200 lbs from SMU and maybe, just maybe, some smart team will select him.

Drew Boylhart   APR.2018