Third WR enters Portal - Nathan Leacock

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DaddyChad said:
If you were depending on Leacock anyways it was a huge issue.
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No one was depending on him for this season, dudes tape was absolutely incredible! His raw athletic is talent is MOSS like. I was just as excited for him as I was Mike Matthews. I knew his route running needed work, and you never really know about a kid's work ethic, still am not questioning it.

When you are as athletically gifted as this young man, I'm sure things have always came really quick for him. When you think that you are a better player, and someone plays ahead of you it also can become extremely frustrating.

In the age of NIL, it could be a financial thing. I could not blame him one bit if my family were struggling at home and I had an avenue to use in pursuit of helping them out, I would race down that road as well.

There is still another chance that some of these guys are just testing the waters. Nothing like getting NIL attention like entering the portal. If any of these guys are truly valued they will be matched whenever any offer is given.

This is just my opinion nobody has to agree with it. I don't have any evidence of anything I'm just going off of publicly available information and some private paid forum stuff.
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
Be that as it may, losing 3 depth pieces for the playoffs (for which they cannot be replaced by a transfer) is not nothing at this point either.
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Every single team is going through the exact same situation that we are. And I guarantee very few of them have the same type of NIL support. Sky is not falling.
 
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Everyone was concerned whenever we lost all of our secondary from last year and look at how that turned out. We will be upgrading the WR position in the same fashion.
 
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volbound1700 said:
Nathan Leacock out today along with Chas Nimrod and Kaleb Webb.

What is going on and should we be concerned or is this a way for us to free up spots for incoming transfers?
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Boogie Bentley said in a Leacock portal video that he caught 1300 balls from the JUGS machine.

Good luck to Leacock, Nimrod and Webb at their next destinations.
 
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Golfprovol said:
We need to hit the portal for a couple OL, maybe one DL, and a speed WR....
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Christmas list:
1.OG
2. DT
3.C/G

If Spillman plays well, our linebacker Corp is looking nasty next year. I worry about speed with Telander. He scares me when he has to drop deeper than like ten yards, stiff in the hips.

We lose Norman-Lott, Omari Thomas, Elijah Simmons.
 
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Kevinyaheard said:
Every single team is going through the exact same situation that we are. And I guarantee very few of them have the same type of NIL support. Sky is not falling.
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I didn't say the sky was falling but that's 4 exits before our playoff game in the same position group, like I said, it's not nothing. I can't imagine drinking the level of kool-aid some of you do that you can't admit obvious things.
 
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volstudent26 said:
I think Leacock could have been a solid starter even if it wouldn’t have been until he was a redshirt junior. It doesn’t hurt you right now to lose him but it hurts you a year or two from now.

But I’m not Kelsey pope and idk how he was progressing. I did hear that he was showing improvement though.
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I mean how much he’s got on the field should tell you something. He’s either not good enough or not getting the opportunities he needs to. Either way he’s better off elsewhere.
 
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As long as Matthews still in Knoxville I can live with it. We desperately need to involve him more, hopefully they do and he becomes the secret weapon that makes the offense scary.
 
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idk guys there is a lot of room at the top of this depth chart next year with Bru, Thornton leaving. Kaleb, Nimrod are out. So the only returning receivers are...Squirrel, Brazzell, Matthews, and Staley?

This looks like a room flip to me or guys aren't happy in that room for reasons other than playing time.
 
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volbound1700 said:
People panicked when we lost our secondary last year but it ended up being an upgrade. I will say our WR core has struggled at times this year.
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Yep, Lot of time players just out athlete opponents in HS and get a unwarranted 4 Star rating. Sometimes they play in a weak part of their state get great numbers and press. They have the 40 times and the numbers height and speed wise. Then they get to college and you either have "the it" factor, or you don't. Getting separation from College DBs and for that matter especially SEC DBs is different. Do you have that extra work effort to get better or have you always just showed up and put up your numbers,
 
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Trust Ol’ Hula on this one: if you saw the two WRs we have coming in, you’d realize this is the best decision Lea could have made.
 
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Let these kids leave. . If they were good enough they would be playing now. Our wide receivers have not been good all year. If these kids that are in the portal can’t find playing time this year they never will.
 
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These players now are not going to stick around long if they don't play a lot. Don't like it, but that's the way it is
 
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They see the writing on the wall. Derpel's offense has been solved and now they are like rats are jumping off the sinking ship.
 
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LouderVol said:
omg, yes we do rotate WRs. you really have to stop with the ESPN lazy of a take about our offense.

the only issue with our offense is that we don't throw it that much, and when we do we typically have longer completions than even the top passing offenses.

We completed 10 or more passes to 5 of our wide receivers.
5 of the Top 10 passing offenses completed 10 or more passes to only 4 of their wide receivers.
2 others completed the same number, 5.
2 had 6 with 10 or more catches
1 had 8, and that was North Texas.

I am going to see if my thread from last year is still around that I can bump.
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I don't know what the ESPN take is of our offense, and I do realize we're primarily a running team, but I also see that we don't normally sub within possessions, and it seems a lot of games we don't have many receivers rotating in. In no way is that a criticism of our coach. And, it's my view that none of these three guys were instrumental in our offense, and they may feel they could be somewhere else.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
They see the writing on the wall. Derpel's offense has been solved and now they are like rats are jumping off the sinking ship.
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The writing on the wall is that Brazzell and Mike will be our top two receivers for the next two years. And Squirrel will be #3 next year. Leacock and Webb want more reps but don’t feel confident in beating out Staley and others. Nimrod thinks he’s talented enough to be a top target somewhere else. No reason to panic.
 
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