St. Louis Rams fans only now getting over Pat Shurmur-ball have to be especially wary of the latest 2012 NFL Mock Draft aspersions being cast on Justin Blackmon: That he's a possession receiver, a second-banana without any of the first-round dynamism he was being granted earlier in draft season. For someone suffering from Shurmur-flashbacks you can offer no more terrifying prognosis; that's all Sam Bradford has known, thus far; nobody's ready for a third year of it.
Here's the thing, thoughâ€"there are good and bad possession receivers, with bad, here, being relative to the No. 6 pick in the first round, anyway. Danny Amendola, as a potential first-rounder, is a "bad" possession receiver; he is literally a means for keeping possession of the ball, and nothing more or less. Two to eight yards through the air and a cloud of dust.
Blackmon is almost certainly not Amendolaâ€"he is, presumably, the Good Possession Receiver. He might not be The Great Possession Receiver, Cris Carterâ€"who once caught 122 balls for (just) 1371 yards and 17 touchdowns, and who was good for 90-ish receptions for eight seasons in a rowâ€"but then, Michael Floyd probably won't be Jerry Rice, either. Average possession receivers are fungible; good ones are valuable.
More NFL Mock Draft coverage from the wide-receiver-obsessed souls at SB Nation St. Louis:
- The latest question is whether Justin Blackmon possesses something called "vertical explosiveness." Greg Cosell thinks he doesn't.
- Meanwhile, Peter King thinks the St. Louis Rams should and will be interested in Blackmon at No. 6.
- As for us, we're still figuring the odds each receiver you love will go to the Rams.
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