HEIGHT: 6-2 / WEIGHT: 198 / COLLEGE: Oklahoma / CLASS: Junior
2019 STATS (13 GAMES): 62 rec, 1,327 yards, 21.4 YPC, 14 touchdowns
CAREER STATS (40 GAMES): 173 rec, 3,292 yards, 19 YPC, 32 touchdowns
GAMES WATCHED (9): Texas, LSU, Kansas State, Houston, Iowa State, Baylor, Texas Tech (2019); Alabama, UCLA (2018)
40 | BENCH | VERT | BROAD | 3 CONE | 20S | 60S |
4.50 | 11 | 34.5″ | 124″ | – | – | – |
SIZE/PHYSICAL TRAITS (4/5)
- Good height for a wide receiver
- Average arm length at 32 1/4″
- Has a sizable catch radius thanks to springy leaping ability and insane body control
SPEED/BURST (8.5/10)
- Good short-area burst and top-end speed
- Doesn’t have an elite second gear, but he’s fast enough to threaten defenses vertically
AGILITY (10/10)
- Excellent change-of-direction ability
- Very quick feet
- Silky smooth with movements in all directions
ROUTE RUNNING/SEPARATION (18/20)
- Three-level receiving threat with a fairly diverse route tree
- Has experience at all three wide receiver alignments
- Uses change of speeds to keep cornerbacks guessing and lulls them into a false sense of security with great effectiveness
- Terrific suddenness in and out of breaks
- Combats press coverage with a variety of release plans
- Generally releases from the line of scrimmage with urgency and good attention to detail, although he can occasionally be a tad inefficient with his footwork
- Great at creating separation at the top of his routes with sudden route breaks and subtle hand fighting
RUN AFTER CATCH (10/10)
- Consistently turns short gains into medium or long gains
- Very slippery runner in the open field
- Impressive contact balance — frequently shrugs off arm tackles and picks up yards after contact
HANDS/BALL SKILLS (19/20)
- Very natural and reliable hands — catches ball with arms extended, almost never body catches and rarely drops an accurate pass
- Fantastic ball skills — wins contested catches with regularity, hauls in tipped balls and hangs on consistently after immediate contact
- Has spectacular catch ability in spades
BODY CONTROL (10/10)
- Extraordinary body control enables him to make some absurd sideline catches
- Adjusts to off-target passes easily and regularly makes catches away from his frame/at the outer limits of his catch radius
- Excellent stop-start ability
BEAT PRESS (8/10)
- Ability to beat press coverage is a little bit of a projection because he played a good number of snaps from the slot during his career at Oklahoma and he rarely saw true press coverage in the zone-heavy Pac-12; however, he has the traits to excel in this area and his 2019 LSU and 2018 Alabama games showed that he has the ability to do it
- Elite foot quickness and physicality give him great potential in this area
FEEL (5/5)
- Tracks the ball effortlessly on downfield throws
- Works back to the quarterback on broken plays consistently
- Finds soft spots in zone coverage and demonstrates a good feel for where and when to “sit”
OVERALL GRADE: 92.50/100.00 — ELITE — Perennial Pro Bowler with All-Pro potential
NFL COMPARISON: DeAndre Hopkins
SCHEME FIT: X Receiver; can also play Y or Z
DRAFT PROJECTION: Top-15 pick
CeeDee Lamb is one of the most complete wide receiver prospects I’ve ever seen. He’s a crisp route runner, he’s got fantastic ball skills, and he’s tremendous as a run-after-catch threat. His ability to beat press coverage is a little bit of a projection, and he doesn’t have elite top-end speed, but he’s very good or great at everything else. The former Sooner projects as an instant-impact starter in the NFL with the potential to become a top-5 receiver by Year 3.