West Virginia football coach Noah Brown knows all the knocks on Bryce Ford-Wheaton, the former Mountaineers wide receiver who is trying to prove the naysayers wrong by sticking with the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent.
Drops too many passes; Isn’t crisp enough in his route running; Doesn’t always play to his size or produce the way a player with his stunningly good athletic profile might be expected to.
“Here’s what I would say to that. Is he a finished product? I would say absolutely not,” Brown said. “What I would defend on Bryce is this, and I said this to the scouts, I said this to all the pro personnel I talked to is he reminds me of a basketball player that comes out and he’s a long, skinny guy and he has a couple really good traits and he’s able to get by with those traits because he is just bigger than everybody else at lower levels.