Round 5 - D.J. Williams - TE

[emunney]

Wow, another interesting weapon.

[El Duderino]

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[xTitan]

I like DJ Williams more than I did Quarles coming out last year, although Quarles had freeakish athletic ability

[LUKE23]

After watching a lot of clips of this guy, I'm shocked he fell to the 5th. He has hands and he has burst, height is the only drawback.

Jennings-Nelson-Driver-Cobb-Finley-Williams-Quarless-Grant-Starks-Green. Man, going to be fun to watch.

[Icness]

He was my #1 TE in the entire draft, though he's not really a classic TE. He's a move guy; you line him up in the slot, or as a FB, or flexed, and put him in motion. He's got real sneaky speed and very reliable hands. He commanded over/under coverage quite a bit and that opens up the outside, which is where Ryan Mallett made a killing.

Blocking is not his strong suit but I found the criticisms of it unduly harsh. He's not an in-line blocker but he reliably finds his target and engages with leverage and isn't bad. He has a lot of experience at crashing in on the OLB to seal the edge on an outside run and did so reasonably well.

He fell for a few reasons. He is short, but he also has a very friendly and docile demeanor and it does bleed onto the field. I liken it to Pau Gasol--you want more physicality more often but he doesn't back down if pushed hard.

IMO I think this is the end of Quarless, but I do get the "Finley insurance" angle too. Not so much for the payday he's going to demand, but the fact he's a player that is so heavily reliant on speed and he's coming off a bad injury. Some guys are just never the same and you don't know until they're back on the field.

[Badgerlander]

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I caught the very end of DJ Williams on 1250 this morning, seemed like a nice kid. His comments on running into Sherrod at the combine were pretty funny, called him real "country".