Dallas Cowboys: 10 Wide Receivers and Their Fit
Emanuel Hall, Missouri
What’s Good: Athleticism, Route running, Short Area Quickness
What Ain’t Good: Physicality, Route Tree, Drops
Emanuel Hall is going to sound like the typical speed receiver coming out of college. He can separate and catch a lot of deep passes, but he has the tendency to drop more passes than he should. His career totals would suggest drops are a concern, but there was a noticeable improvement from his junior to his senior season in that category.
Hall possesses some parallels to Mecole Hardman, however, Hall is a better route runner and a bigger body. Hardman is 5’10” and 187 pounds while Hall is 6’2″ and 202 pounds. He also possesses bigger hands that are 9 3/4″ hands compared to Hardman’s.
Those parallels I was speaking about though, here’s the list. Hall and Hardman ran fast sub-4.4 second 40 yard dashes. They both are explosive for their respective sizes. They both jumped over 36″ in the vertical with Hall jumping an insane 43 1/2″! They both also jumped over 9.5′ with Hall broad jumping 11’9″.
The reason I bring this up is because clearly the Cowboys have interest in a deep threat receiver. Hall averaged a ridiculous 22.7 yards per catch in his final season at Mizzou. However, what makes Hall different than someone like Hardman is his route running.
Contrary to what some others might say, Hall isn’t a bad route runner. What he lacks is a significant route tree. His entire tree consisted of a slant, post, go, out, curl, and whatever he was supposed to run on screen plays. Fortunately for him, he is really good at running these routes and getting separation.
When drafted to the next level, he will have a significant learning curve. Fortunately, he has the athleticism to make the learning curve a bit easier. His short area quickness will help him get separation at the line of scrimmage and his speed will have corners running behind him all the time.
I do have a question on how he will handle physical corners at the line of scrimmage? In college, the objective was to prevent him from running past the corner. This meant that corners weren’t pressing him at the line of scrimmage and playing off at least 5 yards. At the next level, the schemes are different and the corners are more athletic.
He is still fairly lean considering he’s 6’2″ so I wonder how he will be able to deal with the aggressiveness and physicality of the next level considering the current tape wasn’t all the great.
In Hall’s favor, his offensive coordinator his senior season is ex-Cowboys wide receivers coach, Derek Dooley, so maybe that connection could help him land a spot with the Cowboys. After all, he was one of the 30 national visits the Cowboys brought to the star…