Scott Acquard
Name: Rashod Bateman
School: Minnesota
Size: 6’2/ 210lbs.
I rate all WRs on a 1- 10 scale. I rate them on the following:
- Hands: 7
- RAC Ability Overall: 7
- Routes Overall: 9
- Blocking: 3
- Speed: 7
- Strength: 6
- Passion (Fight in the Dawg): 6
- Contested Catch Ability: 6
- Route Tree Capability: 9
- Line Of Scrimmage Ability: 9
- Body Control: 7
- Ball Tracking: 8
I also tally the following:
*Just from what I saw. These aren’t final stats in any way.
- Games Watched: 6
- Successful Contested Grabs: 14
- Broken Tackles (running through arm tackles): 4
- Successful Spin Move: 0
- Successful Stiff Arms: 3
- Successful Jukes: 5
- Routes Won: 76
- Run Block Wins: 5
- Fumbles (Fumbles not lost counts here): 0 in his college career
Overall : 87 /100
Position: X or Slot WR
Upside: He can be a WR1 with good QB play. He isn’t a good run blocker but I don’t know what his assignments were obviously. He doesn’t have elite speed, but he does have good speed and great separation skills with a combination of great LOS play and great route running. He can certainly be explosive after the catch making people miss, but he can be run down by most NFL DB’s.
***I do want to note the ball placement by his QB was typically not very good
College Stats:
2018: 51 Rec./704 Yards/ 6 TD
2019: 60 Rec./1,219 Yards/ 11 TDs
2020: 36 Rec./ 472 Yards/ 2 TD’s
*5 Games Played
NOTES:
Route Running
- Gets open quick outside
- Quick feet at LOS. Great footwork altogether
- Good speed- Elite quickness
- Can be left wide open after his breaks
- His short route running is incredible
- Medium and deep route running is good- not a burner though
- Beat a double team with his route- had a wide open TD but QB threw a terrible ball (Penn ST- 2019)
- Quick and deceptive with his feet at line
- Great field awareness
- Can stop and cut on a dime
- Wide open a lot in zone
- Can beat man coverage
- I don’t have a lot of contested catches to tally because he’s open constantly
- I’m not sure what amount of freedom he is allowed in his routes but he seems like he understands what routes to run based on how DB is playing him
- Can beat press coverage with his feet and hand checking/maneuvering at line
- Extremely versatile route running- can do it all
- Finds soft spot in zones well
- Can beat doubles with his route running alone
- Great at the top of his routes
RAC
- Takes a poorly thrown screen pass almost the distance (Auburn 2019)
- Gets to top speed quickly
- Can make a catch as he makes the first guy miss
- Finds open green grass quickly
- He’s got more than enough speed to make Safeties pay for bad angles
- He has ability to make multiple defenders miss after the catch
- Can take a dump off 30 yards or more on any given play
- Very good in space with jukes and cuts
Ball Skills
- Catches ball away from body when possible
- Can block out and attack the ball
- Capable of circus catches
- High points ball well
- Good ball tracking skills anywhere on the field
- He sometimes doesn’t come back hard enough for the ball, allowing DB to recover and break it up
- I don’t love his contested catch ability over the middle
- There are a couple bad drops on his film
- His QB wasn’t very good and the team itself was bad- not all on him by any means
Effort
- Runs weak routes on options/ run plays- Half speed
- Doesn’t hurry to block usually
- I hope he wasn’t asked to block normally on run plays because he doesn’t do it most the time
- At times it looks easy for Bateman
- Braces for hits too much and sometimes doesn’t make the catch because of it. It’s one of his few cons that does repeat itself
- I have an issue with effort when he’s down big. Routes sloppy and he gave up (Iowa 2020)
- When they got to goal line in Iowa game, he then turned it back on and scored a TD
