Top Five Picks?

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Yo Crims, check out the diss on Morton-

The past four seasons, the 49ers had one of the worst wide receivers coaches in the NFL—John Morton. He never developed a young receiver.

Now the Niners have a new wide receivers coach—Adam Henry. And he is one of the best when it comes to molding raw talent at wide receiver. At LSU, he developed Odell Beckham Jr., the Offensive Rookie of the Year last season.

Now Henry has a new project—DeAndre Smelter from Georgia Tech.

Smelter was the most talented wide receiver available when the Niners drafted him toward the end of Round 4. He’s very big (6’2”, 226 lbs), and he’s explosive (18.9 yards per catch in college).

But he played football only for two years at Georgia Tech. His first two years he played baseball. He still needs to learn the craft of playing receiver.

On top of that, he tore his ACL in December. So he likely won’t contribute much his rookie season.

And that’s OK. The Niners have Anquan Boldin for one more season. They need Smelter to contribute in 2016 if Boldin retires or signs with another team. Henry should be able to bring Smelter up to speed by then.

The Georgia Tech product landed in the perfect spot.

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Your favorite picks in order (BR had Smelter #2)?

[Pattersonca65]

Yo Crims, check out the diss on Morton-

The past four seasons, the 49ers had one of the worst wide receivers coaches in the NFL—John Morton. He never developed a young receiver.

Now the Niners have a new wide receivers coach—Adam Henry. And he is one of the best when it comes to molding raw talent at wide receiver. At LSU, he developed Odell Beckham Jr., the Offensive Rookie of the Year last season.

Now Henry has a new project—DeAndre Smelter from Georgia Tech.

Smelter was the most talented wide receiver available when the Niners drafted him toward the end of Round 4. He’s very big (6’2”, 226 lbs), and he’s explosive (18.9 yards per catch in college).

But he played football only for two years at Georgia Tech. His first two years he played baseball. He still needs to learn the craft of playing receiver.

On top of that, he tore his ACL in December. So he likely won’t contribute much his rookie season.

And that’s OK. The Niners have Anquan Boldin for one more season. They need Smelter to contribute in 2016 if Boldin retires or signs with another team. Henry should be able to bring Smelter up to speed by then.

The Georgia Tech product landed in the perfect spot.

Where is this article from? Can't figure out how Morton kept his job as long as he did. The way the offense was run left alot to be desired. I don't know much about Coach Henry, never heard he was such a great molder of talent.

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Bleacher Report... I was/am having a problem posting the link from phone...

[Pattersonca65]

Bleacher Report... I was/am having a problem posting the link from phone...

Thats ok. Crims thought Morton was a great coach .

[Pattersonca65]

Bleacher Report... I was/am having a problem posting the link from phone...

Thats ok. Crims thought Morton was a great coach .

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Bleacher Report... I was/am having a problem posting the link from phone...

Thats ok. Crims thought Morton was a great coach .

Lol, we've shared a mutual opinion on Morton going way back (for me all the way back to his tenure at USC)...

But this was one of the first times I've seen it put so bluntly on a national level...

[CrimsonCrew]

Yo Crims, check out the diss on Morton-

The past four seasons, the 49ers had one of the worst wide receivers coaches in the NFL—John Morton. He never developed a young receiver.

Now the Niners have a new wide receivers coach—Adam Henry. And he is one of the best when it comes to molding raw talent at wide receiver. At LSU, he developed Odell Beckham Jr., the Offensive Rookie of the Year last season.

Now Henry has a new project—DeAndre Smelter from Georgia Tech.

Smelter was the most talented wide receiver available when the Niners drafted him toward the end of Round 4. He’s very big (6’2”, 226 lbs), and he’s explosive (18.9 yards per catch in college).

But he played football only for two years at Georgia Tech. His first two years he played baseball. He still needs to learn the craft of playing receiver.

On top of that, he tore his ACL in December. So he likely won’t contribute much his rookie season.

And that’s OK. The Niners have Anquan Boldin for one more season. They need Smelter to contribute in 2016 if Boldin retires or signs with another team. Henry should be able to bring Smelter up to speed by then.

The Georgia Tech product landed in the perfect spot.

Haha. Missed this earlier. Awesome. So right, though. Morton was a disaster. The defensive coaching over the last four years was top-notch and will be sorely missed. The offensive coaching...well let's just say I'm interested to see what happens under the "new" staff.

[ChrisPozz]

Yo Crims, check out the diss on Morton-

The past four seasons, the 49ers had one of the worst wide receivers coaches in the NFL—John Morton. He never developed a young receiver.

Now the Niners have a new wide receivers coach—Adam Henry. And he is one of the best when it comes to molding raw talent at wide receiver. At LSU, he developed Odell Beckham Jr., the Offensive Rookie of the Year last season.

Now Henry has a new project—DeAndre Smelter from Georgia Tech.

Smelter was the most talented wide receiver available when the Niners drafted him toward the end of Round 4. He’s very big (6’2”, 226 lbs), and he’s explosive (18.9 yards per catch in college).

But he played football only for two years at Georgia Tech. His first two years he played baseball. He still needs to learn the craft of playing receiver.

On top of that, he tore his ACL in December. So he likely won’t contribute much his rookie season.

And that’s OK. The Niners have Anquan Boldin for one more season. They need Smelter to contribute in 2016 if Boldin retires or signs with another team. Henry should be able to bring Smelter up to speed by then.

The Georgia Tech product landed in the perfect spot.

What?!?!?!?!?!? Nobody else commented on this yet? The part in bold drives me crazy. I take labeling coaches - positive or negative - very seriously coming from a very deep football coaching family and that seems like quite the stretch to me.

Henry was the wide receivers coach at McNeese State from 1996-2006 and during that period they did not have a receiver drafted into the NFL and the only WR during his time there that appeared in the NFL was Jimmy Redmond, who spent part of his college days at Ohio State, and appeared in, I believe, 2-3 games in the NFL.

From 2007-08 he was a quality control coach with the Raiders. In terms of wide receivers, he oversaw a group that included Jerry Porter, Ronald Curry, Mike Williams, John Madsen, Tim Dwight, and Johnnie Lee Higgins (returner). Josh McCown, Daunte Culpepper, and JaMarcus Russell (1 game) started at QB that year for those guys.

The following year he moved to tight ends coach after Tom Cable (and then Hue Jackson) took over and spent two seasons there.

He then moved to LSU where he worked with Reuben Randle for 1 year, James Wright, and of course Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham.

Now, I am usually one of the first people to look deeper than on-the-surface accomplishments, especially at a position like WR and WR coach, but when you stack him up against some of the fantastic WR coach developers in the NFL like Terry Robiskie, George Johnson, Richard Mann, Tyke Tolbert, or Edgar Bennett, what is there about him that makes anybody believe he stacks up WITH THE OTHERS at molding talent?

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Geez Pozz, way to pee in the cheerios...

As the wide receivers coach at McNeese State, Henry produced the all-time leading receiver in school history in Jermaine Martin as well as the 2003 Southland Conference Player of the Year in B.J. Sams.

McNeese State isn't exactly an NFL factory...

[CrimsonCrew]

http://yackityyacksports.com/ranking-th ... of-2015-2/

[CrimsonCrew]

What?!?!?!?!?!? Nobody else commented on this yet? The part in bold drives me crazy. I take labeling coaches - positive or negative - very seriously coming from a very deep football coaching family and that seems like quite the stretch to me.

Henry was the wide receivers coach at McNeese State from 1996-2006 and during that period they did not have a receiver drafted into the NFL and the only WR during his time there that appeared in the NFL was Jimmy Redmond, who spent part of his college days at Ohio State, and appeared in, I believe, 2-3 games in the NFL.

From 2007-08 he was a quality control coach with the Raiders. In terms of wide receivers, he oversaw a group that included Jerry Porter, Ronald Curry, Mike Williams, John Madsen, Tim Dwight, and Johnnie Lee Higgins (returner). Josh McCown, Daunte Culpepper, and JaMarcus Russell (1 game) started at QB that year for those guys.

The following year he moved to tight ends coach after Tom Cable (and then Hue Jackson) took over and spent two seasons there.

He then moved to LSU where he worked with Reuben Randle for 1 year, James Wright, and of course Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham.

Now, I am usually one of the first people to look deeper than on-the-surface accomplishments, especially at a position like WR and WR coach, but when you stack him up against some of the fantastic WR coach developers in the NFL like Terry Robiskie, George Johnson, Richard Mann, Tyke Tolbert, or Edgar Bennett, what is there about him that makes anybody believe he stacks up WITH THE OTHERS at molding talent?

I don't know much of anything about Martin, though "one of the best" certainly seemed like a stretch when talking about NFL position coaches. He can't possibly be worse than Morton, at least.