At the end of the 2017 season, it sure looked like the San Francisco 49ers found a steal in wide receiver Trent Taylor, whom the team selected in Round 5 of that year’s NFL Draft.
Forget Taylor’s short 5-foot-8, 180-pound frame. He was college football’s leading receiver in 2016, after all, and it appeared as if the Louisiana Tech product was going to continue that kind of production at the NFL level.
But Taylor ended up seeing a serious regression the following year, seeing his numbers drop across the board in significant fashion:
This possibly put Taylor on the fringes of San Francisco’s roster heading into 2019.