The numbers tell the story that Carnell Tate cannot be covered, and if you do cover him, he is making the catch anyway.
Carnell Tate is as complete a wide receiver as you will ever find. There isn't much that he can't do from the wide receiver position, and in just a couple of weeks, he is going to make an NFL franchise very excited.
Tate has several "superpowers," and at the top of the list is his ability to run incredible routes that get him wide open for easy catches. Another one is that no matter if he is wide open or if he is covered, he catches the football.
Both of those skills are coveted at the NFL level because the defensive backs are so much better and the windows are so much smaller at the next level.
The chart above tells this story exactly.
Among all of college football wide receivers, Tate is near the top of the list in percent of contested targets, meaning he is open 80 percent of the time. He is at the top of the list when it comes to contested catches.
He is covered only 20 percent of the time the ball is thrown to him, and of that 20 percent, he comes down with the football at a clip of 69 percent of the time.
These numbers are incredible, and they tell the aforementioned story. If you are lucky enough to cover Carnell Tate, he is coming down with the catch seven out of every 10 times.
Tate is going to be the first receiver off the board at the end of April, and there is not much argument against that.
He does all of this with a 6-foot-3 frame, which adds just another element to his game. Like the former Buckeye and reigning Offensive Player of the Year Jaxon Smith-Njigba, he can win from the slot, the outside, attached, detached, or the backfield.
He is as complete a wide receiver as you will ever see, and the only question is if he is going to play his professional ball in New York, Cleveland, New Orleans, or Kansas City.
There is one spot there that obviously stands out amongst the others, but regardless of where he lands, he will immediately make any NFL team just that much better from the first day he steps into the building.
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