It’s Easy to Fall in Love with Will Fuller’s Speed and Overlook His Drops

April 12, 2016   ·   Sean Tomlinson   ·   Jump to comments

It’s hard to watch former Notre Dame wide receiver Will Fuller, and I mean that in a good way. He’s often a blur barely visible to the human eye. The potential first-round pick at the NFL draft on April 28 whizzes by while making defensive backs do their best twirling ballet routines, spinning as they fail to match his speed.
But it can also be hard to watch Fuller, and I mean that in a bad way.
He gives deep passes a cushy, soft landing spot at the end of a long journey, with the nation’s fifth-highest catch rate on balls traveling 20-plus yards through the air (58.6 percent, according to Pro Football Focus). Overall, however, Fuller has too many moments when his hands seem to be coated with, first, butter, then jelly, and more butter.
Fuller dropped 10 of 72 catchable passes in 2015 for a 13.9 percent drop rate that ranked 88th out of 96 qualifiers at wide receiver, per PFF. The previous season wasn’t much better, as in 2014, Fuller sent 12.64 p...

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