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Catching is one thing that WR's can seriously improve over time. If you look at Aaron Dobson, he didnt have ANY drops his entire senior year at College, but then he came to the NFL and had a ton of drops in his rookie year. It's one of those things that can be fixed or diminish. Much of it has to do with concentration and effort.
If you ask Panthers fans about Brandon LaFell before this season, they would've said he dropped too many passes. Yet he was great for the Patriots this year, barely dropping anything.
Catching is one of my least worries about a WR prospect unless the guy has small hands, and in this case Conley has above average hand size.
He is definitely raw and will need a lot of coaching, but this is the type of guy I think McDaniels would love to mold.
I agree. And Dobson will probably improve. Part of it is comfort level due to lack of practice, and if he's overthinking whether he ran the right route or not. I hope he'll do better with a full offseason and training camp, assuming he stays healthy.
Though on LaFell, he also has some really small hands for a WR (8 3/4") and I think that issue was exasperated by playing with a QB with some accuracy issues like Newton. Playing with Brady has been the best thing that could have happened to him.