If Pead and Givins were Rookies, would they make this team?

Agamemnon wrote:

They could help the Rams this year, even though they haven’t been big contributors in the past.

I dunno ag. Maybe Givens steps up, but it’s a long step IMO.

Agamemnon wrote:

They you expect an udfa to make the team in their place or that they just won’t step up?

I can’t honestly say. But the UDFAs do sound good.

I hear things around about Slavin. For one thing, he’s a special teams gunner.

Tyler Slavin, WR, 6-1, 201 New Mexico Highlands — Finished with 119 catches for 1,418 yards and 17 touchdowns in 2014. Started his career at Arizona before transferring.

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http://www.hudl.com/athlete/2947571/tyler-slavin

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http://www.abqjournal.com/581823/sports/nm-highlands-duo-get-nfls-attention.html

or Slavin in 2014, he earned First Team All-American honors from Daktronics while being named Second Team All-American by D2Football.com. The RMAC named him the Conference Offensive Player of the Year after ending the season with 119 receptions for 1,418 yards (second in NCAA Division II) and 17 touchdowns. His 128.91 receptions yards per game was second in the nation while his 10.8 catches per game led NCAA Division II. He finished the season with five games with 100+ reception yards and was just a yard short in two other games.

In the middle of the 2014 campaign, Slavin tallied six-straight games of double-digit receptions and had four-straight games with triple digit receiving yards. Against rival Western New Mexico, he caught 17 passes for 425 yards and a season-best four scores. Against nationally-ranked Colorado School of Mines, Slavin caught 14 passes for 278 yards and two scores.

“The scouts for the Rams have been on Tyler from the word go,” Pavlic said. “We could not be more excited for him as he continues his career on the gridiron. He went home to train every day, but he has been taking online classes and is on pace to graduate in the fall of 2015.

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Tyler Slavin, New Mexico Highlands

http://rotoviz.com/2015/03/sleeper-wide-receivers-2015-rookies/

Tyler Slavin might have been the best DII WR of the 2014 season. Respectively first, second, and third in receptions, yards, and TDs receiving in the DII ranks, the redshirt senior receiver totally dominated the competition in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

Of course, on a market share basis Slavin wasn’t quite as good in his final season as his raw statistics would suggest, reminiscent of Terrance Williams‘ final season at Baylor.

By no means were Slavin’s 2014 and Williams’ 2012 campaigns disappointments—but with his raw production neither player actually dominated the receptions on his team the way that some would think, and with his Rec MS neither player was especially efficient at turning his touches into market share of total production. Under normal circumstances, Slavin’s “merely” solid final-season production wouldn’t be cause for alarm, but Slavin really had production only in his final season (again, somewhat like Williams, except that Williams actually was much more productive in his earlier seasons).

At the University of Arizona for the first three years of college, Slavin redshirted in 2010, served only as a special teams player and reserve WR in 2011 (with no receptions), and then in 2012 played as the No. 4 receiver during Austin Hill’s breakout season, patching together a 22-224-1 campaign the highlight of which was catching the game-winning TD pass in the New Mexico Bowl with only 19 seconds remaining—Slavin’s final reception and final game for Arizona. In the summer of 2013 Slavin left the Arizona football team and transferred to NM Highlands for the 2013 season, in which he underwhelmed with an 18-290-1 campaign in eight games. So, really, 2014 was Slavin’s only productive year.

What helps Slavin’s cause is that he appears to have NFL athleticism. At his March 5 pro day at the University of New Mexico, Slavin, according to Tony Pauline, “if nothing else, secured an invitation to camp this summer.”

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The star of the pro day in New Mexico was Tyler Slavin, a receiver from New Mexico Highlands, who totaled 106 receptions for 1,234 yards and 15 touchdowns last year.

Slavin measured 6-2, 215 pounds, then ran 4.52/4.54 in the 40, touched 34 inches in the vertical jump and 9-7 in the broad. Slavin also caught the ball very well and if nothing else, secured an invitation to camp this summer.

The St Louis Rams, Arizona Cardinals, San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders were on hand.
Read more at http://walterfootball.com/proday.php#5V0RIZaEvW7X7Vry.99

only 4 teams bothered to attend New Mexico’s pro day and one was the rams..I think they were there to watch one specific player..don’t be surprised if we sign Slavin to an udfa contract…rams pro day visits and udfa contracts have historically gone hand in hand

rams were one of a few teams to watch Middle Tenn St pro day a couple of years ago. I talked to the local beat writer covering the team and asked who they liked and she said they were talking to Bennie Cunningham…ditto last year with Tre Watts/Tulsa pro day

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Agamemnon wrote:

Thanks, that’s a better vid than the one I found. So much so I went back via edit and dumped the one I found, which was genuinely hard to watch it was so murky.