This Year's Wide Receiver Class Is The Slowest Since 2011

The 2016 NFL Draft is a bit thin at the wide receiver position. Aside from two or three explosive prospects, there isn’t much depth to the class and entering the NFL Scouting Combine it didn’t seem like there were many impact players.

On Saturday, this year’s crop of wideouts had a chance to prove us all wrong. That didn’t happen.

This year’s receiver class turned in the slowest average 40-yard dash times since 2011 at 4.56 seconds. While this year’s wideouts weren’t far off the previous marks, it was just another indication that this group doesn’t look like it has much game-changing ability.

Notre Dame’s Will Fuller blazed his way to a 4.32, which was easily the top mark of the day, but given his propensity for drops he doesn’t strike observers as a reliable target. Ole Miss’ Laquon Treadwell and Baylor’s Corey Coleman opted not to run this weekend, which gave TCU’s Josh Doctson (4.50) a chance to shine in his workout.

Guys like Oklahoma’s Sterling Shepard (4.48), Ohio State’s Braxton Miller (4.50) and UCLA’s Jordan Payton (4.47) all performed well but the majority of the class was a disappointment.

This is the part of the article where I give you the disclaimer that 40 times aren’t everything for a receiver and that we shouldn’t put too much stock into it. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, today further indicated that this is a weak receiver class without many game-breakers.