How Ty Montgomery Can Avoid Becoming NFL’s Next Cordarrelle Patterson

March 28, 2015   ·   Sean Tomlinson   ·   Jump to comments

Ty Montgomery didn’t need a clear, definitive position at Stanford. He was an athlete.
His job title was receiver, but he’d sometimes function as a running back. His true area of excellence? Kick returner. His open-field speed led to the nation’s third-highest kick-return average in 2013 (30.3 yards).
Now as he prepares for the NFL draft, Montgomery faces a mold that needs to be shattered. An athlete has to become a football athlete, and at the next level that means being an offensive weapon coordinators don’t struggle to use.
The alternative is quickly having versatility erased and being placed into an inescapable NFL box.
The alternative is becoming Cordarrelle Patterson.
The line connecting Montgomery—a likely mid-round pick—to Patterson and his quickly fizzling career with the Minnesota Vikings isn’t a difficult one to draw.
Patterson’s raw athleticism led to puddles of scout drool prior to the draft in 2...

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