Here is someone else's post from a month ago:
Non-PPR... I'll take the big body WR who will be a red zone threat that has a huge pass catch radius in Baldwin. Hankerson I like too, but his dropping balls makes me not like him as much as Baldwin. T.Smith catching balls with his forearms and not being great at tracking the long ball over his shoulder scares me for a deep threat
And I'm sure I can dig up other posts that compare him to DHB (the Maryland connection), and other posts about him being a raw prospect, not knowing how to run routes, trapping the ball with his body, etc etc.
The thing with all rookies, is that there is no black or white. Every rookie is a shade of grey. They have positives, and they have negatives. And in May to July we basically add up the positives, subtract the negatives, and that gives us the calculated risk of drafting a player where we did.
Look at the rookie draft thread and you'll see MANY instances where Torrey went behind Baldwin, Hankerson, etc etc. I've seen him last until the mid to late 2nd round. Why is that? Well it was because the negatives listed above (raw, catches with his body, can't run routes) are hard to ignore, and they increase the chance of a bust.
However, now that preseason is in full gear, if he's proving that those negatives can be erased, there's a whole lot of positive that remains (size, speed, strength, character, TEAM NEED).
I'm not saying that Torrey = Tampa Mike, but Tampa Mike was in a very similar situation last year. There were lots of positives & lots of negatives causing his ADP to be early 2nd round last May & June, however, once training camp fed into preseason, he erased the negatives & look at what happened to his ADP in mid to late August rookie drafts.
