STRENGTHS
Elijah is your prototypical slot or move receiver, who has the athletic talent and high football IQ to play more than one position in a team’s offense. He has excellent eye/hand coordination with a good catch radius. Elijah is quick and has excellent speed and against linebackers and most safeties, he is a matchup nightmare. When he is put in motion, he is very difficult to defend for slot corners. Elijah is tough, and will go over the middle, and take hits catching the ball, and will move the chains knowing full well he is about to get beat on. He can make you miss in the open field and will be an asset to the special team’s return units. As I stated before, he is smart and understands zone coverages and how to get open. When Elijah feels he is singled up, and he knows in his gut that he can beat his man down the field, Elijah becomes a scoring machine.
CONCERNS
Elijah is a slot receiver, not the type of receiver you can put on the outside against bigger and just as fast and quick corners. He could develop into an outside receiver but he has to learn to run better routes and get off the line from a standing position and deal with the physical corners who will re-route him and throw him off his timing to get free.
BOTTOM LINE 2.64
Elijah is open because he is on the move or lined up off the line or, matched up against linebackers and safeties. He reminds me a lot of Former Giants Victor Cruz. If the team that selects him uses him the way his college team used Elijah then he is a weapon but if that team wants to make a wide receiver out of him and line him up on the outside it will take time for him to impact if he can. I remember Victor Cruz and what an impact he had as a slot receiver and then I remember the Giants paying him big time money and moving Victor to the outside, never to be seen again because of injuries and not being able to handle learning how to play out wide. Elijah is a slot or move receiver. Use him that way and he is a weapon. Try to turn him into something other than a slot receiver and you run the risk of lessening his impact on the field.
