With the No. 22 pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, Washington Redskins selected Josh Doctson.
Josh Doctson is a 6’3″ wide receiver out of TCU. Doctson is known as a big play maker and his 29 touchdown catches is a TCU school record, 25 coming in his last two seasons with the Frogs. Over that two year span he caught 143 passes for 2,345 yards and TCU went 23-3.
Doctson’s best trait is that he can adjust to balls in the air very well. He dealt with shaky accuracy at quarterback, but really if you could throw it in the air around him, he could typically come down with it. Doctson makes it looks extremely easy too and has arguably the best hands in the draft. That all combined with your prototypical receiver size has him right in the discussion as the top wide receiver in the draft.
What holds him back from being a sure thing would have to be his route running. Sometimes the reason he makes acrobatic catches is the accuracy of the pass, but on others, the quarterback is throwing to a spot and Doctson is not there. He doesn’t have hard brakes on his ins and outs, and it can lead to corner backs jumping routes on him. He also has a slim frame, at only 195 pounds and will need to put weight on if he wants to be a to be a team’s top receiver in the NFL.
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