The slant route.
Last season with the Arizona Cardinals, Damiere Byrd caught 11 of his 32 passes in the process of running it.
Oftentimes, there was a stutter step off the line. Sometimes, there was an outside release that disguised his cut across the middle as a quick out to the sideline. And every once in a while, Byrd didn’t cut in either direction.
But cornerback facing the wide receiver did.
Byrd, who once clocked the 40-yard dash in 4.28 seconds and the three-cone drill in 6.6 seconds at the South Carolina pro day, grew limbs off of a basic route tree.