'25 Portal Thread

[VolGee4]

Agreed. We have been banged up at WR all year. Hard to believe we’ll go an entire season without any injury issues. Considering Heupel didn’t want to play Matthews much this year because of his inexperience, I can’t imagine he wants to have 3 true freshmen backups.

We need some bodies. I hope we pursue someone.

Matthews might have played more without the pre-fall injury. Pretty much Heupel alluded to. Squirrel had 30 catches for 481 yards as a true freshman. Heupel is not immune to playing a freshman WR, especially if they are an early enrollee.

 

[CamVol8]

Huge mistake if we don’t at least take 1 receiver from the portal.

Matthews
Brazzell
Squirrel
Staley

Yes I know we have some nice freshman coming in but to rely on all of them in the SEC doesn’t make any sense. Plus we have seen this year how banged up our WR core has been.

What’s going to happen if Squirrel is still injury prone and one of Brazzell or Matthews goes down? That’s razor thin in terms of production

 

[CrossVol17]

I hope with 3 in the portal now that we really do go after at least one WR. This kid would fit our offense perfectly, he's a stud.

 

[TrippieRedd]

I bet @KingVFL look and says "good grief this cat again"..

Should’ve never came on this board then.

 

[VolGee4]

You can message it however you want. Inexperience. Lack of trust. Not understanding the offense. All of these are things you’d expect from a true freshmen which only supports my point of not wanting to rely on 3 true freshmen next year to be our 2nd string.

Josh Heupel talks progress of true freshman wide receiver Mike Matthews

Sounds like he’s earning more playing time.

www.rockytoptalk.com

Injury.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Either they don’t think he’s as good as you do or they don’t think he’s as good as his price tag

Right that’s the only two reasons

 

[knoxvol52]

Should’ve never came on this board then.

I vote let it ride and let the young guys play. They got to learn eventually..

 

[MarcoVol]

Right that’s the only two reasons

Those 2 scenarios cover every reason that could exist except if they reached out and he shot them down

 

[FBtime]

I hope with 3 in the portal now that we really do go after at least one WR. This kid would fit our offense perfectly, he's a stud.

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He's really good. Had some huge games this year on a bad team. I had him on fantasy team

 

[ConwayFitty]

Agreed. We have been banged up at WR all year. Hard to believe we’ll go an entire season without any injury issues. Considering Heupel didn’t want to play Matthews much this year because of his inexperience, I can’t imagine he wants to have 3 true freshmen backups.

We need some bodies. I hope we pursue someone.

Think this may be the same situation we had with the DB room last year. WR underperformed all year...time to clean the dead weight and bring in some talent and youth. Hopefully we don't need them during the playoffs

 

[MarcoVol]

Think this may be the same situation we had with the DB room last year. WR underperformed all year...time to clean the dead weight and bring in some talent and youth. Hopefully we don't need them during the playoffs

Heard on one of the pods that Vols encouraging the portal guys to still play in playoffs and they are eligible to do so

 

[Vol423]

Huge mistake if we don’t at least take 1 receiver from the portal.

Matthews
Brazzell
Squirrel
Staley

Yes I know we have some nice freshman coming in but to rely on all of them in the SEC doesn’t make any sense. Plus we have seen this year how banged up our WR core has been.

What’s going to happen if Squirrel is still injury prone and one of Brazzell or Matthews goes down? That’s razor thin in terms of production

Yeah. What the hell does that Heupel guy know?

 

[therickbol]

That don't make no sense....to people that have limited and incomplete information.

 

[dascoop]

Visiting Tennessee this weekend

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

Huge mistake if we don’t at least take 1 receiver from the portal.

Matthews
Brazzell
Squirrel
Staley

Yes I know we have some nice freshman coming in but to rely on all of them in the SEC doesn’t make any sense. Plus we have seen this year how banged up our WR core has been.

What’s going to happen if Squirrel is still injury prone and one of Brazzell or Matthews goes down? That’s razor thin in terms of production

Squirrel is tough he has played and contributed the entire time he has been hurt. And his injury isn’t some major injury. He just needs rest. GBO

 

[Carp]

Right that’s the only two reasons

It takes 2 to tango. Perhaps he doesn't want to come here?

 

[jvols1999]

Visiting Tennessee this weekend

Oh?

 

[volinbama256]

I would imagine it's a guarantee we go get someone now

we should be going out to get at least 2 now... we certainly don't have the depth anymore.

 

[Vol423]

Visiting Tennessee this weekend

...and half of Volnation asks if he can play wide receiver.

 

[TrippieRedd]

“Shanahan played but was hardly a stalwart. He gave good effort but was particularly poor in pass protection. We need to improve our O-Line one way or another.”


PFF grades:
Run: 53.7
Pass: 54.8


Hopefully he just needs a change of scenery.

 

[smokeyz1]

Another reason the staff may not grab another WR from the portal.. They may plan on running a lot more 21 (two TE sets) next year. We should have a pretty good TE room also with the incoming freshmen.

 

[Weezer]

Maybe they try and convince Nimrod to stay?

 

[Nico ee-ah-MAH-LAY-ah-va]

Says a lot about what the coaches think of Matthews and Staley.

It may be prudent to see how some of the incoming freshmen look in the spring before deciding if a depth piece is needed. Brazzel, Squirrel, and Matthews is a solid core group of guys. Staley plus the incoming freshmen may be all we need... but I have a REAL hard time thinking the coaches will turn their nose up at an All-American if one hits the portal. Even if we have 6 capable receivers that's still kind of thin if half of them have no experience.

If a promising All American hits the portal, his agent's iPhone is about to go nuclear with the number of calls coming in. Plus, there is the price tag to think about. I think we are going to see less incoming proven players this year because we have to drop bags on Boo Carter and Jermod McCoy's porches before the season is even finished to get them to stay.

 

[Vol423]

Maybe they try and convince Nimrod to stay?

Yeah. We could definitely use more of his timely drops.

 

[Vol423]

I think we are going to see less incoming proven players this year because we have to drop bags on Boo Carter and Jermod McCoy's porches before the season is even finished to get them to stay.

What is the source for this recurring line of BS?