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Is there a WR1 on this team?

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AlexCane said:
@DMoney You tell us, bud, you're the one at practice. That you're asking is not getting me warm and fuzzy about the WR room right now.

In all seriousness, I suspect not having Beck really affected that room. I hope these guys are ready to ramp it up once he's practicing.
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He did several times if you were paying attention to spring practice. The same name was mentioned every day over and over.
 
Someone has to lead the team in catches and TDs. Doesn’t necessarily mean we have a real WR1. Maybe Jojo but we’ll need a lot of those “Ifs and Maybes” in terms of development to go our way for this offense to be good.
 
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Canes Legacy said:
Someone has to lead the team in catches and TDs. Doesn’t necessarily mean we have a real WR1. Maybe Jojo but we’ll need a lot of those “Ifs and Maybes” in terms of development to go our way for this offense to be good.
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I believe in systems that produce. IMO Dawson’s system produces. We had a 4.8 WR, a 4.6 crashout WR going insane the past two years. It’s all on the health of Beck. That’s the only thing that matters. If Beck is healthy WR’s will eat. Everyone is an “If or Maybe” until they’re not. Don’t get it twisted the offensive success lies in the hands of Carson Beck’s health. Point, blank, period.
 
DMoney said:
It's pretty well-documented that Miami wanted a WR1 in the Portal. Unfortunately, they didn't have the QB lined up in winter (when supply was good) and the supply wasn't there in the spring. So it ends up as a miss.

But someone still needs to fill the targets. Who is going to emerge as the WR1? Keelan Marion strikes me more as a versatile #4, and CJ Daniels is more of a contested catch/possession guy until he proves he's as healthy as he was at Liberty.

IMO, the upside of this group will depend on the emergence and health of JoJo Trader and Malachi Toney. Those are the two with clear star potential.
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I agree 100% D. JoJo is the guy for me, body wise, he needed that year to get it college ready and from what I’ve seen, he has accomplished that with a whole summer of ahead of him, to get even stronger. The thing with JoJo is, the talent is through the roof. And if Jeremiah and Ryan Williams can do it as a freshman, there’s no reason why Jojo can’t do it as a sophomore. I’m not saying he’s as talented as those two but he’s in the same ballpark when it comes to talent as those two and a lot of our fans seem to be forgetting that. JoJo is a day one/day two guy in the draft. It’s his time now and I’m hoping he steps up and takes WR1 and runs with it!
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
This times a billion.

Show me the rosters in the ACC (or ****, even in America), who have this in their WR room:

Top 50 OVERALL recruit, Top 10 WR
Top 70 OVERALL recruit, Top 15 WR
#135 overall blue-chip
Top 125 overall recruit, Top 17 WR
Blue-chip composite 4-star
Blue-chip composite 4-star
Player with 148 catches for 2400+ yards and 21 TDs in his college career, 6th year grown man
Player with 76 catches for over 1100 yards and 7 TDs along with 5 rushing scores in college, 5th year

This does not include Chance Robinson or Bryce Fitzgerald, by the way, both who were composite 4-star kids.

Do I wish we had 5000 yards of receiving production coming back? Of course. Am I saying there is nothing at all to worry about here? Of course not.

But some of you guys have allowed the portal to scramble your brains. This is still college football. It's still MAJORLY predicated on high school recruiting. Yes, portal kids contribute to winning teams. Does Taint win a natty without Howard, Downs, and Judkins? Maybe not. But they probably don't win it without Egbuka, Smiff, and Henderson, either. Not to mention a ton of other kids they recruited, just as an example of one program.

We got a QB in the portal. One of the best in America. We have some very good athletes and some returning production in the TE room. We have one of the best offensive lines in the country. We have 2 kids in the backfield who we stole flat out from Ryan Day's dyed mustache. Both of who got heavy offers to bounce in the portal, and didn't.

So yes, we have to have some kids step up at receiver. So do about 98% of the teams in the country. And not many of those have Carson Beck standing behind a knock your **** in the dirt offensive line.

Jeremiah Smith was the most ready-made WR prospect I've seen since Julio Jones. But there were plenty of folks I heard in 2022 and 2023 talking about Jojo Trader being not far behind in terms of ceiling and talent, but JJ just had the grown man's body as a Sophomore. Jojo needed a touch more development. But a kid who was the #42 overall player in America with a year of learning under a proven good teacher in the same exact system should be able to give you WR1 production. Or **** close to it.

Talent on paper hasn't translated to the field very well at Miami recently, but it needs to start or all of this is moot anyway. If we can't take all that talent I listed and produce a solid WR corps, then we have the wrong coaches and none of this matters.
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Bingo. We have a winner
 
How has Upshaw looked since getting college conditioning and spring reps? In high school he looked dominant and that was even when they had Cam Coleman from Auburn who turned out to be a talented Freshman. I'm very bullish on Upshaw potential especially in Dawson offense.
 
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So Mario invests a great deal of $ into an injured QB who already struggled with his receivers at Georgia, then gives him a receiving corps with no proven playmakers? And on top of that, we go from Horton to Daniels because we didn’t think he was worth the value Bama thought?

These decisions just make no sense to me.
 
QSTOKES said:
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I think a lot of people are sleeping on CJ. He's 2 years removed from a 1k yard season, and I think if he lands somewhere between where he was at Liberty in '23 and LSU last year (say 50 catches, 700-ish yards, 6-7 TD's) that could end up being WR1 numbers among a group where stats will be fairly distributed (expecting Daniels, Trader, Tony Johnson and Lofton to all be over 500 yards and 5 TD's each).
 
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