STRENGTHS
Quentin has excellent size, length, speed, and quickness to be a franchise receiver for the team that selects him. He is a good blocker when he needs to be and that shows that he is a good teammate. What attracts me to Quentin’s film is his unique quickness. It’s the type of quickness and lateral agility you don’t normally see in a player with his size. His ability to make players miss him in the open field after he catches the ball is mostly found in smaller players. Quentin, for a big fast, and quick receiver is an excellent zone receiver, gearing down and finding the open spot in the zone, and that shows a high football IQ, and the maturity to make himself available to his quarterback to make a play. He can run deep routes because of his speed and ability to track the ball. He gains separation on other routes because of his quickness and high football IQ to “sell” his routes making Defensive Backs scared to death that at some point he will break for a big play. Quentin has franchise receiver written all over him and is the type of receiver you can develop your passing game around.
CONCERNS
Quentin will need to gain more strength in his arms and hands to fight off and catch contested passes against more physical defensive backs. Right now, because of his talent to run routes quickly, and gain separation, he hasn’t been challenged that much. This will make him even more of a threat to score more TD’s in the red zone.
BOTTOM LINE: 1.42
To be a better-than-average zone receiver, and the type of receiver that is counted on in the most important times of a game, that receiver must run his routes from the vision of his quarterback and not just run routes. What does that mean? It means the receiver has to make the instinctive adjustments and the subtle movements that put himself in an easy passing lane for his quarterback to deliver the ball. Some receivers never get this through their thick skulls. You just don’t run a route against zone coverage. You have to run your route, read the zone, and then get open in the zone to the vision of your quarterback. Big-play receivers are able to do that, along with excellent TE’s, and excellent slot receivers. Anybody can learn to run routes but only the good ones can learn to run any route, against any defense, and be open to the vision of their quarterbacks. I think Quentin has that vision. There are a bunch of receivers in this draft with the vision to run routes like Quentin but, not many with his size, speed, quickness, and ability to make tacklers miss him in the open field. He can be more than just a very good receiver who you can select in any round, he should be the exception to that rule if you’re smart.
