Dion Ray Moved To Receiver

[CharlieK]

Ummm.. he is not going to the NFL. Anyone who cannot find the field at UL has zero chance of making it.

You have absolutely no idea if this is true based on the evidence so far. He has been moved. Next two years will decide if this is correct or not.

[Ragin4U]

Getting the ball into the hands of a player who can make tacklers miss is always a positive thing. Getting the ball to Ray on a tunnel screen or bubble or jet sweep has to pay dividends.

[MetryCajun]

You have absolutely no idea if this is true based on the evidence so far. He has been moved. Next two years will decide if this is correct or not.

UL produces less than one NFL player(not a camp body) per year. If you believe Ray is the one guy who will make it from his grad class, you are entitled to your opinion. I think it will be one of the other receivers who possess just as much athleticism and have better measurables.

[Turbine]

Ummm.. he is not going to the NFL. Anyone who cannot find the field at UL has zero chance of making it.

Your surface statement is true, but what makes you say Dion Ray won't find the field?

[CharlieK]

UL produces less than one NFL player(not a camp body) per year. If you believe Ray is the one guy who will make it from his grad class, you are entitled to your opinion. I think it will be one of the other receivers who possess just as much athleticism and have better measurables.

I challenge you to find one time, anywhere, in any post that I said I believe Ray is the one guy who will make the NFL from his grad class. I'll hang up and listen.

[CajunT]

Ike was a physical freak who had size and speed that is rare even in the NFL. Dion Ray has a size and skill set that hundreds of college players possess. Dion Ray appears to be a good player who should be able to help us win some games. I hope his position change gives him the platform to show that he can be a difference maker for us.

Ike wasn't a physical freak in his size, the guy was 6'1, 187 playing RB. Long term he could not play RB without adding muscle and risk losing his speed. His speed and length were the determining factors in making the move over to defense.

[MetryCajun]

I challenge you to find one time, anywhere, in any post that I said I believe Ray is the one guy who will make the NFL from his grad class. I'll hang up and listen.

You are the one challenging me. I made a statement based on historical data to say the odds are stacked against him.. Furthermore, I was replying to someone else about his NFL viability in my initial post. As we all agree, this position move for Ray is long overdue. Hopefully he can be a difference maker for us over the next couple of years.

[facelessjonmoon]

Ike wasn't a physical freak in his size, the guy was 6'1, 187 playing RB. Long term he could not play RB without adding muscle and risk losing his speed. His speed and length were the determining factors in making the move over to defense.

He wasn't a physical freak in size, but he was a freak considering his height and speed combo. At the time him and Peanut came out, there were not alot of 6'1"- 6'2" cb's especially running the way he did.

https://www.steelersdepot.com/2018/0...-all-time-1-2/

" #1Ike Taylor/CB (2003-2014)

Taylor might hold the franchise record for fastest unofficial 40 time ever recorded and man, I wish he would've gotten a Combine invite. Few guys know speed better than Tom Shaw, whose job is to literally make players faster, and he believes Taylor is one of the fastest ever.

Unofficially, Taylor ran a 4.18 coming out of UL-Lafayette. Immediately in the video below, Shaw recounts the story of using police radar guns to measure speed. Taylor topped out at 26 miles an hour during his 40 yard sprint, faster than anyone else, most of whom came in around 24 mph."

https://youtu.be/FX3dvuIB9GY



Tom Shaw was also Deion Sanders and Chris Johnson's (2 fastest 40's in NFL combine history) speed coach and he always says Ike was the fastest player he's ever worked with

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“We will work him at quarterback a little bit from a spot-play standpoint,” Napier said, “but he has made that move to receiver and really has been productive so far.

“He’s very well-respected by his teammates. He’s very intelligent. And he’s a class-act young man,” Napier added. “So I think getting him in position to where he can contribute to the team was part of the factor.”

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[facelessjonmoon]

All that being said, getting Dion Ray on the field is a good thing.
Whether he makes it to the NFL is yet to be seen, but he definitely has a better shot at that playing WR (same idea as Ike moving to CB)