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Houston Texans select 4th round KeKe Coutee WR Texas Tech

Per Todd McShay All Satellite Team (Most Explosive Players In Draft)
3. Keke Coutee, WR/RS, Texas Tech Red Raiders

Coutee is extremely dangerous as a returner and averaged 31.5 yards on 10 kickoff returns in 2017, scoring a TD as well. He's undersized (5-11, 180), but extremely twitched up. He was second-team All-Big 12 last season, ranking fourth in the FBS with 1,429 receiving yards on 93 catches (ranked sixth in FBS) with 10 touchdowns.
 
eriadoc said:
One of the best receivers to ever play in Houston was pretty small (Ernest Givins), and he played in an era when the defense had free reign to take your head off after you caught the ball. These days, the defense is barely allowed to tackle you. The size aspect does not concern me.
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Ask Welker and Amendola how much size hurt their careers. (Two other TT slot WR's who both went to multiple SB's)
 
Texecutioner said:
Ask Welker and Amendola how much size hurt their careers. (Two other TT slot WR's who both went to multiple SB's)
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Well being that Welker had his own set of injury issues ACL/multiple concussions and Amendola has had more than his fair share of injury riddled seasons, it’s safe to say that size cannot be overlooked.


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Todd Quick‏@CoachQuick1 23h23 hours ago

Keke Coutee spoke to the Panthers today. "Out work 'em all. Dream big. Take care of the classroom". Things he lived by. #LP #GOALS

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jradMIT said:
Well being that Welker had his own set of injury issues ACL/multiple concussions and Amendola has had more than his fair share of injury riddled seasons, it’s safe to say that size cannot be overlooked.


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Size had nothing to do with that. They go up the middle and caught balls in high collision situations all the time in the style of offense they played their role in.
 
I don't know the Tech players, so maybe it says as much about them, but something I noticed in most of the highlights is that Coutee fires out (apt description IMO) incredibly faster than everyone else. 0-10 yards is wildly different from Coutee to the other receivers. We've trended towards slower developing routes under O'Brien, so this may be a point of interest.
 
Should be an interesting competition among our 2nd tier receivers - Coates and Coutee should push each other.
Perhaps we can get a pleasant surprise from Weah and/or Smith.
May the best men win.
 
Texansphan said:
Should be an interesting competition among our 2nd tier receivers - Coates and Coutee should push each other.
Perhaps we can get a pleasant surprise from Weah and/or Smith.
May the best men win.
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May the better man win.
 
Haven't watched anything besides that tackle breaking video. Does he always fight for yards like that or does he know when to go down?
 
Texansphan said:
Should be an interesting competition among our 2nd tier receivers - Coates and Coutee should push each other.
Perhaps we can get a pleasant surprise from Weah and/or Smith.
May the best men win.
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My prediction,

This will be the best overall WR group in Texans history.

Not great, but the Texans have had great WR's but weak as an overall group.
 
Texansphan said:
If Will Fuller realizes his potential and I expect he will then we have two top tier receivers and the rest of the pack trying to better themselves and catch up.
Good recipe for a solid corp for sure.
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Fuller is the x factor in this offense. When he is on the field and HEALTHY his speed threat has to be accounted for an opens up everyone else. Can he stay healthy for a full season? Gosh I hope so!
 
Texansphan said:
If Will Fuller realizes his potential and I expect he will then we have two top tier receivers and the rest of the pack trying to better themselves and catch up.
Good recipe for a solid corp for sure.
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Fuller is the x factor in this offense. When he is on the field and HEALTHY his speed threat has to be accounted for an opens up everyone else. Can he stay healthy for a full season? Gosh I hope so!
 
edo783 said:
I look for Coutee to do some pretty cool things this season and in the future. This kid is going to be a matchup nightmare from the slot. Too bad he isn't four or five inches taller.
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If he were four or five inches taller we wouldn't have come close to him.

I'll take a 5'10 KeKe hopefully running wild as a Texan vs a 6'3 KeKe likely dominating the league as an anyone else.
 
zshawn10 said:
patrick

✔@PatDStat

Rookies TE Jordan Akins and WR Keke Coutee look Fluid running routes and catching the football. Coutee has some speed I haven’t seen in a while on the field. #Texans

1:10 PM - May 22, 2018
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Looking these reports from around the NFL, I become skeptical when skill position guys don't at least 'flash" when not being hit. Drafted players who are noted to have speed and quickness should ya know show speed and quickness with the ability to catch a football against air or non-contact coverage. Not flashing is more a red flag than doing so is a sign of good things to come.
 
PHILLYTEXANFAN said:
So to call him an extension of the marketing department is silly. Also, Coutee has explosion, Fuller is just straight line fast
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It's not really, he used to be independent. But last season he wrote that the Texans Ol had a lot of depth. Basically parroting what BOB was saying. So obviously he either A. Doesn't know what he's looking at. B. Just repeating what BOB/Texans org is pushing.

Both Fuller/Coutee have explosion. The question was about hands and that we really wont know about until the regular season starts. The NFL is much different than college, particularly for WR's.
 
steelbtexan said:
Hopefully Coutee
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NFL will prove this out, but Fuller's hands were not a secret. From his draft profile "Hands can be wretched at times". Coutee's worst hands item was "Below average on contested catches". Good news is hands can be improved and WF seemed to do that until he got hurt, AGAIN. I think with Coutee he has to learn to deal with physical corners, or be schemed in such a way to make up for that weakness. Love the WR group now though, so many diverse weapons
 
Rich Schmidt said:
Fuller's hands were not a secret. From his draft profile "Hands can be wretched at times". Coutee's worst hands item was "Below average on contested catches". Good news is hands can be improved and WF seemed to do that until he got hurt, AGAIN.
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Why does everyone blame Fuller for getting hurt and completely ignore the fact that it was Tom Savage that threw that ball for Fuller to go get right into triple coverage, with DB’s already charging towards him full speed? That horrible decision by Savage got Will’s ribs cracked, and kept him out for about a month or so. I think Will Fuller was on his way towards a breakout season and may damn well surpass Hopkins in the not so distant future.
 
Mangler said:
Why does everyone blame Fuller for getting hurt and completely ignore the fact that it was Tom Savage that threw that ball for Fuller to go get right into triple coverage, with DB’s already charging towards him full speed? That horrible decision by Savage got Will’s ribs cracked, and kept him out for about a month or so. I think Will Fuller was on his way towards a breakout season and may damn well surpass Hopkins in the not so distant future.
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Mangler said:
Why does everyone blame Fuller for getting hurt and completely ignore the fact that it was Tom Savage that threw that ball for Fuller to go get right into triple coverage, with DB’s already charging towards him full speed? That horrible decision by Savage got Will’s ribs cracked, and kept him out for about a month or so. I think Will Fuller was on his way towards a breakout season and may damn well surpass Hopkins in the not so distant future.
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Savage is also the cause of all three of our TE's concussions as well. Now one has gave up the game. And rightfully so because our health is very important.
 
Mangler said:
Why does everyone blame Fuller for getting hurt and completely ignore the fact that it was Tom Savage that threw that ball for Fuller to go get right into triple coverage, with DB’s already charging towards him full speed? That horrible decision by Savage got Will’s ribs cracked, and kept him out for about a month or so. I think Will Fuller was on his way towards a breakout season and may damn well surpass Hopkins in the not so distant future.
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There was some good discussion on the NFL channel on Sirius. They were talking about penalizing QBs and receivers for not being able to recognize zone from man post snap. Too many of them getting lit up due to that and causing defensive players to be penalized for doing their job.
 
[QUOTE="Texansballer74, post: 2823179, member: 56332"]Savage is also the cause of all three of our TE's concussions as well. Now one has gave up the game. And rightfully so because our health is very important.[/QUOTE]

I think anyone anyone that thinks so needs to review film again. Most all of those concussions occurred by either helmet hits or hits to the ground. Savage's ball placement in general was pretty good despite having the D in his face continually or having to run for his life.

 
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Scooter said:
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This article is somewhat dated since it preceeds so many rule changes. However, the distribution of type of plays probably have remained similar. Keep in mind that the repeated brain knocks (mini-concussions) against the inside of the skull over a long period of time still accounts for a major factor of the ultimate development of clinically significant concussions.
Twelve Years of National Football League Concussion Data
Drop down to Table 5 for Injuries by activity for concussed players in National Football League games (the other tables in this section are also interesting).
 
The Play Will Fuller sustained broken ribs. Savage placed the ball perfectly, he caught the ball in stride across the middle getting under the coverage, then got nailed by the defender..........unfortunately right in the ribs.

 
CloakNNNdagger said:
The Play Will Fuller sustained broken ribs. Savage placed the ball perfectly, he caught the ball in stride across the middle getting under the coverage, then got nailed by the defender..........unfortunately right in the ribs.
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I'm actually in agreement with that throw being a bad decision, though not necessarily a bad throw. The safety was lurking, and Savage not only stared at his slant route - he pumped for a reason that I don't see. Had he landed the throw initially, it's probably a good play. Savage pumped and that delay exposed Fuller to the middle of the field and the obvious result - a safety looking to hit somebody (and a linebacker squared up to bury the remains had it gone further).

Edit: thanks CND, nobody else would respond to my drunk post while quoting the 'edit'. I truly appreciate that.
 
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Coutee is fast? Whooptiedooooooooooo!!!!

Everybody is the NFL is fast.

Lets just say he does have that speed to separate at the end routes. Do we have the line to give him than. Not at this point for sure

No way this dude can out muscle anybody 5 yards in to create the "slant route- take it to the house" coutee dream. I give the heads up to Ellington in route running ability at this point.

I am starting to think the whole BOB's new game plan is strech the field with fast dudes and have Watson run around like a chicken with a bad ACL. This is the dude that approved the O-line last year. Anything is so possible with this coach.
 
- Not everybody in the league is the same fast.

- Out muscling a guy is not necessary to create a slant route opening.

- Did we find time for Will Fuller to use his speed at the end of routes last season?

- Ellington should have the advantage in route running at this point. Ok. Glad we have him here while the kid gets his feet under him.

- And I'd rather have guys who can stretch defenses over the top and underneath, with a guy who demands double teams at the top of everyone of his routes, with the prospect of a TE that can run around in space and up the seams ...

... then some bizarre, shopworn Dez Bryant jumpball gameplan.
 
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