New Steelers’ WR coach Frisman Jackson is getting all the shiny new toys in this year’s draft. George Pickens in the second round and today in the fourth, Memphis WR Calvin Austin III. Austin brings a different body type to the room, a short, fast, stop-start space player in a room of power forwards like Chase Claypool and Miles Boykin.
Though Austin’s lack of size is obvious, Jackson doesn’t believe it’s going to hinder his game. Jackson believes Austin plays much bigger than how he measured in.
“When you’re a 5’8 guy, can you go up and attack the football when the ball is in the air,” Jackson told reporters via the team’s YouTube channel.