STRENGTHS
Siaosi reminds a lot of the Jets Robby Anderson, the good Robby, not the bad one. He has the same build and size, and the same slinky style of running routes. He has excellent hands with a big catch radius. He has that strong, pipe cleaner type of body, that allows him to make acrobatic catches when other receivers would give up on the ball. Siaosi has that sneaky suddenness when he runs routes, that is surprising cornerbacks on how quickly he can cover ground and eat up their cushion when defending him.
CONCERNS
Siaosi has done everything in his power to camouflage his existence for the draft. He played for Utah and then for Utah State. Then, he changed his last name from Wilson to Mariner. He wasn’t invited to the combine or the Senior Bowl or even the Shrine game. As far as medicals or anything else, you guess is as good as mine and yet I still felt the need to profile him.
BOTTOM LINE 3.56
I noticed him only when I turned on the film to evaluate his QB. I tied to ignore him but every time his QB made a play in the passing game Siaosi’s talent was at the end of the pass. I made a mental note and just wanted to see where he would pop up in the draft process. I’m stunned that he wasn’t included in any of it as of this writing so, I started to dig into why. After all, he has the talent and you can’t tell me that when scouts and GM’s went to Utah State to evaluate and analyze his QB that they didn’t notice Siaosi. Either I haven’t got a clue what I’m doing (And we all know that’s not likely) or this kid has a bigger problem that I don’t know about because for sure, he has the size, speed, and ability to play the game at the next level. I mean even if he is slower than the average receiver in this draft, he still has excellent talent to play and at best should have been invited to one of the draft evaluation games. All I can tell you is that Siaosi stood out for me and I don’t doubt that he can become a core receiver if a team selects him but right now I don’t see that happening because so far, he has been left out of the process, so to speak. I would think in the later rounds this kid could be selected or maybe as a priority rookie free agent. For me, I think he has third-round talent but I see no reason to jump and select him that early because of two reasons. First being, there are so many receivers in this draft and the second reason, Siaosi has done everything to camouflaged his talent and I’m not convinced that anyone but me has noticed him, that is, up till now.
