Good prospect, great route runner, smart player, but suffers from the dropsies. PFF calls him a "work in progress" but also says he's one of the top WR talents in the draft:
[Coleman's] hands are good enough, but he does have concentration lapses at times and whatever way you slice it, puts too many balls on the ground.
In all, Coleman had 10 drops this season and seven the year before. Those are pretty big numbers and give him a drop rate over the two years of 11.0 percent of catchable passes dropped. That’s actually worse than Jordan Matthews in the NFL this past season, whose drops drove Philadelphia Eagles fans crazy, and exactly the same as Brandon Marshall’s career drop rate. Looking at only this draft class it’s bad enough to rank 90th among all eligible receivers — 4 percent worse than somebody like Josh Doctson, so it’s a legitimate concern. A player like Brandon Marshall makes a lot of big plays to offset his drops — will Coleman be able to do the same?
Conclusion:
He has elite quickness, burst and acceleration and is a big play waiting to happen in a way most of the other receivers in this class are not. This high-end athleticism and acceleration makes him dangerous before the catch and with the ball in his hands, and his run-after-the-catch ability is very underrated. Taller than many were expecting at 5-foot-11 and almost 200-pounds, he is not an insignificant threat with the ball in his hands.
If it wasn’t for his frustrating drops, he would be even higher in my estimation, but between those and being a little too passive when the ball is in the air, there are flaws to his game.
We have a lot of question marks in the WR position (i.e. DeAndrew White, Dres Anderson). Smelter could prove he was worth the wait, and could potentially be a great 1-2 tandem with Torrey.
IMHO we have far more serious holes at O-line, D-line, and the secondary to consider taking a receiver early. We will draft a WR to be sure and it will be someone very tall (Chip likes them that way).
Can't wait for the fucking draft already.