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WR Breshad Perriman, IND (1 Viewer)
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Faust
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Report: Browns have dinner with WR Breshad Perriman
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000488291/article/report-browns-have-dinner-with-wr-breshad-perriman
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000488291/article/report-browns-have-dinner-with-wr-breshad-perriman
From ESPNs reporter draft:
I don’t think the Eagles will take Perriman because I really don’t expect him to be on the board when they pick at No. 20. But when the 6-foot-2, 212-pound Perriman -- who has run sub-4.3 times in the 40-yard dash -- slipped past Houston and Cleveland, there was no hesitation here. I was leaning toward UConn cornerback/freakish athlete Byron Jones, but a receiver with Perriman’s size and speed would be irresistible to Chip Kelly. Put it this way: Perriman represents an upgrade from the departed Jeremy Maclin. -- Phil Sheridan
I don’t think the Eagles will take Perriman because I really don’t expect him to be on the board when they pick at No. 20. But when the 6-foot-2, 212-pound Perriman -- who has run sub-4.3 times in the 40-yard dash -- slipped past Houston and Cleveland, there was no hesitation here. I was leaning toward UConn cornerback/freakish athlete Byron Jones, but a receiver with Perriman’s size and speed would be irresistible to Chip Kelly. Put it this way: Perriman represents an upgrade from the departed Jeremy Maclin. -- Phil Sheridan
Sabertooth
Footballguy
pickibg 6th I think it's probably coming down to we forme. Can't wait for tonight 
Perriman, White, Parker, and DGB are virtually tied pending landing spots and draft position for me. Thinking of actually trying to slide back to 1.07 today before the draft and rolling the dice.
Perriman, White, Parker, and DGB are virtually tied pending landing spots and draft position for me. Thinking of actually trying to slide back to 1.07 today before the draft and rolling the dice.
Sabertooth
Footballguy
You'd have to wonder is Green Bay would take Perriman if he slid.
Shutout
Footballguy
Sabertooth
Footballguy
I think Baltimore is quite likely for him.
bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
Like the Balt spot for him
offdee
Footballguy
Faust
MVP
NFL Draft: Fantasy reaction for Breshad Perriman
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/fantasy-football-today/25169611/nfl-draft-fantasy-reaction-for-breshad-perriman
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/fantasy-football-today/25169611/nfl-draft-fantasy-reaction-for-breshad-perriman
Faust
MVP
LOOK: Ravens draft Breshad Perriman, NFL not sure who he is
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25169616/look-ravens-draft-breshad-perriman-nfl-thinks-hes-someone-else
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25169616/look-ravens-draft-breshad-perriman-nfl-thinks-hes-someone-else
Xue
Footballguy
Tracks the deep ball way better than Smith. Highpoints better. Plays bigger. Better movement skills to translate to routes.
James Daulton
Footballguy
deancheated
Footballguy
He makes DHB look like Jerry Rice when it comes to catcing the ball. 
lod01
Footballguy
Biabreakable
Footballguy
Torry Smith career catch rate is 49.1% the big plays are great and he scored double digit TD for the first time last season but I can understand why they let him walk.
Despite some concern about drops with Perriman I doubt he will be worse in this regard than Smith.
I have been skeptical of Perriman, but Ozzie changes my mind about that a bit. Not that Newsome has a very good track record with drafting WR. Brandon Stokely and Travis Taylor have the most career approximate value. Torry Smith may end up having a better career than those two did.
This kid has worse hands that Torrey Smith. Saw a highlight film of him dropping pass and pass that was right in his hands. Long, intermediate, or short pass it didn't matter.He makes DHB look like Jerry Rice when it comes to catcing the ball.
James Daulton
Footballguy
Then WTF did Ozzie draft him???
bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
BroadwayG
Footballguy
cstu
Footballguy
Faust
MVP
Breshad Perriman has chip on shoulder over drops:
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000490301/article/breshad-perriman-has-chip-on-shoulder-over-drops
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000490301/article/breshad-perriman-has-chip-on-shoulder-over-drops
VarsityBlues123
Footballguy
thought this guy would be generating more buzz? i love the situation and his upside is huge.
drops? I think bad qb play had a lot to do with that as he had to adjust a lot on most of his drops.
drops? I think bad qb play had a lot to do with that as he had to adjust a lot on most of his drops.
Uncle Grandpa
Footballguy
VarsityBlues123
Footballguy
cant wait to watch him catch a deep bomb every week with that speed and flaccos arm.
before all the naysayer say it, yes it is well documented that people thinks he has catching issues.
he can drop a ball a game does that mean he wont have good numbers still?
before all the naysayer say it, yes it is well documented that people thinks he has catching issues.
he can drop a ball a game does that mean he wont have good numbers still?
BroadwayG
Footballguy
Warhogs
Footballguy
Long term BroadwayG is right on. I don't know a lot about Perriman but it sounds a lot like DHB. You won't have a long productive career if you can't catch.
DHB had other issues than not being able to catch.Warhogs said:
If you can make big plays teams will live with a few drops. Go look at drop percentage and every year you will see plenty of stud WR's at the bottom of these rankings. Terrell Owen was a WR who spent most of his career near the bottom of drop percentage rankings and he had a long productive career.
The guy he is replacing ranked 45 out of top 46 qualifiers per PFF for drop percentage last season. At no point was Torrey Smith in danger of getting benched.
With Perriman I'd be more concerned that he can become a complete WR and run a full route tree and not just be a one trick pony deep threat like Torrey Smith more than I'd be concerned with his hands.
Kool-Aid Larry
Footballguy
that was supergood --- didn't know he had those vids on his siteFaust said:
I liked that guest he had on there, too
edit: who was the transcendent talent that torched hargreaves -- amari cooper?
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jurb26
Footballguy
Cooper beat Hargreaves pretty bad last year but it's worth noting that Hargreaves played with an injury so he wasn't full speed. I think ankle?
VarsityBlues123
Footballguy
JohnnyU
Footballguy
Shutout
Footballguy
I do too. The guys in the industry describe him as having rare size/speed/suddenness traits. People have overused the word elite to the point it means very little anymore but you don't often find multiple analysts describing a guy as "rare". When you do, it often leads to good things. Beckham, Moss, Josh Gordon, Dez, Peterson, Calvin, Gronk, All guys that multiple people described as RARE.
I don't care one iota about how the only thing people want to talk about is drops. Harbaugh and Trestman can fix that as well as anyone. I put a lot of fantasy bread on my table over the years with Terrell Owens who dropped a lot of balls but at the end of the day, the result was "Man, that 21 point day coulda been 30 had he caught that one ball." I'm not crying over a 1st world problem.
Bob Magaw
Footballguy
Background article.
Jeff Zrebiec, The Baltimore Sun
Updated May 9, 2015
http://touch.baltimoresun.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83502859/
Breshad Perriman already had posed for dozens of photos, conducted countless interviews and uncomfortably learned his NFL fate in front of television cameras.
He maintained his patience and poise throughout, but the whirlwind 24 hours was finally starting to take its toll. Sitting in an office at the Ravens' training facility the afternoon before the second round of the NFL draft, Perriman fidgeted with his phone and shifted anxiously in his chair. Stealing an occasional glance at the football fields outside, Perriman couldn't wait to move on to the next phase of his rookie season.
"I'm very anxious just to be here, focus on football and leave everything else behind," Perriman said.
If only it had ever been that easy for the team's first-round draft pick, who was on the field the past two days for the Ravens' rookie minicamp. For all their draft success, the Ravens have struggled to develop an elite wide receiver and the 6-foot-2, 212-pound speedster out of Central Florida is their latest hope.
It's a lot to put on a 21-year-old, though Perriman has been dealing with high expectations his whole life. His father, Brett, played 10 seasons in the NFL and had more than 500 receptions. He is only 5-9, but he cast a large shadow that his youngest son has never really escaped.
Even during the telecast of the draft's first round, a highlight package of the soon-to-be Raven started with a clip of his father, who was drafted by the New Orleans Saints 27 years earlier.
"That pressure will never exit," said Brett Perriman Jr., the oldest of Brett and Laundria Perriman's four kids. "I think the time he's going to experience that the most will be now. This is the height of it all. There's nothing else to reach for. He's made it. The great thing about Breshad is he's very linear in his thinking and he's able to block things out when he needs to. It's definitely one of those pressure points for us. We can't erase our father's history. Breshad's the baby boy, but he's the one who handles pressure the best."
There was a time when Brett Perriman wondered how serious his youngest son was about playing football. Now, he marvels at all Breshad has overcome.
Breshad had a painful knee condition throughout his adolescence. He attended three Georgia high schools in as many years. He broke his ankle in his senior season and got just two college scholarship offers. A variety of nagging injuries cropped up in college.
"He's had everything known to man — a lot of setbacks," said Brett Perriman Sr. "But he worked hard and he was rewarded."
Pain and perseverance
Perriman had a strong final season at Central Florida, catching 50 passes for 1,044 yards and nine touchdowns. But his transformation from an intriguing prospect into a first-round pick essentially was made in 4.22 seconds, the amount of time it took Perriman to run the 40-yard dash at his pro day in March. When he crossed the line, several NFL scouts glanced at their stopwatches in disbelief.
His arms pumping in rhythm, his long strides chewing up turf, Perriman distanced himself from past knee problems with every step. Until his late teens, he struggled with Osgood-Schlatter disease, a form of knee inflammation that primarily affects children. Brett Perriman and all three of his sons dealt with the symptoms before outgrowing the disease.
"There's nothing you can do, so you have to deal with it," Brett said. "Some people can, some can't. But for a young kid, it becomes unbearable."
Breshad was in the junior Olympic track program and there were times he'd cross the finish line and double over in pain. He wore special insoles, but they only helped so much.
That wasn't the only thing that Breshad saw as an impediment to a potential football scholarship. His first high school, Heritage High in Conyers, Ga., never threw the ball. A frustrated wide receiver, he transferred to Martin Luther King High in Lithonia. That wasn't a good fit either, so he enrolled at nearby and nascent Arabia Mountain High in time for his senior year.
"Nobody actually knew Breshad coming in, but you would have thought that he was deeply invested in Arabia Mountain instead of being there for just one year," said Terrone Owens, the team's offensive coordinator at the time. "He wasn't a 'me, me' kid. He was very humble. As a player, he was pretty advanced. There wasn't a lot of coaching I had for him."
Perriman began to hear from more and more schools early in his senior season, but after he broke his ankle, many of the calls stopped. As he prepared to make his college decision, Perriman had just two formal scholarship offers: Central Florida and Florida International.
"I knew he was a good player, but he just couldn't develop through all the problems that he had along the way," Brett said.
Similar goals, different demeanors
Central Florida wide receivers coach Sean Beckton had no idea whether Perriman was enjoying his campus visit. Perriman said very little to coaches or even the Knights' players. But during the ride back to the airport, the wide receiver interrupted the silence.
"He said, 'Coach, I want to be one of the best receivers that ever played here,'" recalled Beckton who had previously worked with future NFL wideouts Brandon Marshall and Mike Sims-Walker. "Looking back on it, he lived up to that billing."
As Beckton got to know Perriman, he learned that the player was shy and uncomfortable in the spotlight. That's where Breshad and his father differed most.
"I think I've started to open up a little more as I get older, but I'm the type just to sit back and kind of observe," Breshad said. "My dad is the complete opposite. He's real talkative. He's outspoken and outgoing. But that has never been me."
Brett said Breshad takes after his mother.
"I'm way more aggressive, way more outgoing. I had to be because I had the short man's syndrome," Brett said. "He's laid-back, calm, quiet and very, very humble. We had to do a lot to get him to talk to the media and everything else."
Breshad was about 5 years old when his father played his final NFL game in 1997. His memories of Brett's NFL career were shaped by watching tape. Beckton said that Breshad would come back to campus after breaks with a notebook, detailing all the things he wanted to work on after watching film with his father.
It wasn't always easy for Breshad, hearing the constant comparisons, having his father dissect his play. But he knew that it came from a good place and his game was shaped by those film study sessions and on-field workouts with his dad.
"He's loosened up a little bit, but at the same time, he kind of kept pressure on me," Breshad said. "After every game, even if I had a good game, he'd always tell me what's something I could do better. But he never tried to get in the way of what the coaches did. He wanted to give them their space. At the same time, it's not like he fully let go. When I'm back home, we still hit the field. But he knows that there's a time and place for everything."
Brett readily concedes that finding the balance between being a father and a coach has been challenging. But Brett, who survived a tough childhood in the Miami housing projects to earn a scholarship to the University of Miami, is not going to apologize for wanting the best from his son.
"One thing I had to learn was it's not my system, so I can't overrule them. If I do something that might be good but it's bad for him as far as not being in the coach's program, ... he's going to suffer," Brett Sr. said. "Ultimately, I paid the price for doing it too much. So what I told him was, 'Whatever the coaches say, you do what the coaches say.' I'm very adamant about my kids. I want to make sure they do their best at whatever. If it's truck driver, you're going to be the best truck driver."
Coming full circle
The Perriman family was in Chicago for the NFL draft, but if Breshad had gotten his way, he would have been anyplace else. He wanted to watch the first round from home, surrounded by family and friends, and not by television cameras, red carpets and unfamiliar faces. Breshad's parents worked on him for two weeks before he consented to go.
There were certainly perks to being there, such as the lavish food spread for guests. Breshad put a piece of chicken and some fruit on his plate, grabbed two Gatorades and that was that. He has always been a picky eater. Growing up, he insisted on having brown sugar and maple oatmeal nearly every meal.
Brett Jr., though, could sense his brother's anxiety level rise with each passing minute. The last thing anybody wanted was for Breshad to be that guy who fell in the draft, cameras chronicling his facial expressions after each selection.
When commissioner Roger Goodell announced that the Ravens had taken Perriman with the 26th overall pick, the wide receiver stood up and smiled broadly. He hugged his father and other family members, later calling the night a "dream come true."
"At first, it started off as a player-coach kind of deal. My dad pretty much taught Breshad everything he needed to know," Brett Jr. said. "But Breshad became a true student of the game. He dedicated himself. By the time college came around, it was more of a player-agent thing. It was more collaborative. Breshad has learned enough to know his own body, to know what works for him and what doesn't. What may work for my father, who is 5-9, may not work for Breshad at 6-2. But it's fun to watch my dad live vicariously through Breshad and be a proud father."
Less than 24 hours later, Breshad was rattling off all the roles that his dad played in his life: father, best friend, teacher, agent. He had one more to add to the list: motivator.
Breshad Perriman had always wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and make it to the NFL. Now that he had, he set a new goal.
"I want to make my own name," he said. "You want to be successful so you won't be labeled as Brett Perriman's son. They'll just know you as Breshad Perriman."
jeff.zrebiec@baltsun.com
twitter.com/jeffzrebiecsun
Name: Breshad Perriman
Age: 21
Height/weight: 6 feet 2, 212 pounds
Hometown: Lithonia, Georgia
College: Central Florida
Personal: Perriman has three older siblings; two brothers (Brett Jr. and Breon) and one sister (Brittney). His father, Brett, played for 10 seasons in the NFL.
Honors: Perriman is the first wide receiver that the Ravens have drafted in the first round since 2005. He was an All-American Athletic Conference first-team selection last year. In 2013, he was a member of the MAAC All-Academic team.
Jeff Zrebiec, The Baltimore Sun
Updated May 9, 2015
http://touch.baltimoresun.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83502859/
Breshad Perriman already had posed for dozens of photos, conducted countless interviews and uncomfortably learned his NFL fate in front of television cameras.
He maintained his patience and poise throughout, but the whirlwind 24 hours was finally starting to take its toll. Sitting in an office at the Ravens' training facility the afternoon before the second round of the NFL draft, Perriman fidgeted with his phone and shifted anxiously in his chair. Stealing an occasional glance at the football fields outside, Perriman couldn't wait to move on to the next phase of his rookie season.
"I'm very anxious just to be here, focus on football and leave everything else behind," Perriman said.
If only it had ever been that easy for the team's first-round draft pick, who was on the field the past two days for the Ravens' rookie minicamp. For all their draft success, the Ravens have struggled to develop an elite wide receiver and the 6-foot-2, 212-pound speedster out of Central Florida is their latest hope.
It's a lot to put on a 21-year-old, though Perriman has been dealing with high expectations his whole life. His father, Brett, played 10 seasons in the NFL and had more than 500 receptions. He is only 5-9, but he cast a large shadow that his youngest son has never really escaped.
Even during the telecast of the draft's first round, a highlight package of the soon-to-be Raven started with a clip of his father, who was drafted by the New Orleans Saints 27 years earlier.
"That pressure will never exit," said Brett Perriman Jr., the oldest of Brett and Laundria Perriman's four kids. "I think the time he's going to experience that the most will be now. This is the height of it all. There's nothing else to reach for. He's made it. The great thing about Breshad is he's very linear in his thinking and he's able to block things out when he needs to. It's definitely one of those pressure points for us. We can't erase our father's history. Breshad's the baby boy, but he's the one who handles pressure the best."
There was a time when Brett Perriman wondered how serious his youngest son was about playing football. Now, he marvels at all Breshad has overcome.
Breshad had a painful knee condition throughout his adolescence. He attended three Georgia high schools in as many years. He broke his ankle in his senior season and got just two college scholarship offers. A variety of nagging injuries cropped up in college.
"He's had everything known to man — a lot of setbacks," said Brett Perriman Sr. "But he worked hard and he was rewarded."
Pain and perseverance
Perriman had a strong final season at Central Florida, catching 50 passes for 1,044 yards and nine touchdowns. But his transformation from an intriguing prospect into a first-round pick essentially was made in 4.22 seconds, the amount of time it took Perriman to run the 40-yard dash at his pro day in March. When he crossed the line, several NFL scouts glanced at their stopwatches in disbelief.
His arms pumping in rhythm, his long strides chewing up turf, Perriman distanced himself from past knee problems with every step. Until his late teens, he struggled with Osgood-Schlatter disease, a form of knee inflammation that primarily affects children. Brett Perriman and all three of his sons dealt with the symptoms before outgrowing the disease.
"There's nothing you can do, so you have to deal with it," Brett said. "Some people can, some can't. But for a young kid, it becomes unbearable."
Breshad was in the junior Olympic track program and there were times he'd cross the finish line and double over in pain. He wore special insoles, but they only helped so much.
That wasn't the only thing that Breshad saw as an impediment to a potential football scholarship. His first high school, Heritage High in Conyers, Ga., never threw the ball. A frustrated wide receiver, he transferred to Martin Luther King High in Lithonia. That wasn't a good fit either, so he enrolled at nearby and nascent Arabia Mountain High in time for his senior year.
"Nobody actually knew Breshad coming in, but you would have thought that he was deeply invested in Arabia Mountain instead of being there for just one year," said Terrone Owens, the team's offensive coordinator at the time. "He wasn't a 'me, me' kid. He was very humble. As a player, he was pretty advanced. There wasn't a lot of coaching I had for him."
Perriman began to hear from more and more schools early in his senior season, but after he broke his ankle, many of the calls stopped. As he prepared to make his college decision, Perriman had just two formal scholarship offers: Central Florida and Florida International.
"I knew he was a good player, but he just couldn't develop through all the problems that he had along the way," Brett said.
Similar goals, different demeanors
Central Florida wide receivers coach Sean Beckton had no idea whether Perriman was enjoying his campus visit. Perriman said very little to coaches or even the Knights' players. But during the ride back to the airport, the wide receiver interrupted the silence.
"He said, 'Coach, I want to be one of the best receivers that ever played here,'" recalled Beckton who had previously worked with future NFL wideouts Brandon Marshall and Mike Sims-Walker. "Looking back on it, he lived up to that billing."
As Beckton got to know Perriman, he learned that the player was shy and uncomfortable in the spotlight. That's where Breshad and his father differed most.
"I think I've started to open up a little more as I get older, but I'm the type just to sit back and kind of observe," Breshad said. "My dad is the complete opposite. He's real talkative. He's outspoken and outgoing. But that has never been me."
Brett said Breshad takes after his mother.
"I'm way more aggressive, way more outgoing. I had to be because I had the short man's syndrome," Brett said. "He's laid-back, calm, quiet and very, very humble. We had to do a lot to get him to talk to the media and everything else."
Breshad was about 5 years old when his father played his final NFL game in 1997. His memories of Brett's NFL career were shaped by watching tape. Beckton said that Breshad would come back to campus after breaks with a notebook, detailing all the things he wanted to work on after watching film with his father.
It wasn't always easy for Breshad, hearing the constant comparisons, having his father dissect his play. But he knew that it came from a good place and his game was shaped by those film study sessions and on-field workouts with his dad.
"He's loosened up a little bit, but at the same time, he kind of kept pressure on me," Breshad said. "After every game, even if I had a good game, he'd always tell me what's something I could do better. But he never tried to get in the way of what the coaches did. He wanted to give them their space. At the same time, it's not like he fully let go. When I'm back home, we still hit the field. But he knows that there's a time and place for everything."
Brett readily concedes that finding the balance between being a father and a coach has been challenging. But Brett, who survived a tough childhood in the Miami housing projects to earn a scholarship to the University of Miami, is not going to apologize for wanting the best from his son.
"One thing I had to learn was it's not my system, so I can't overrule them. If I do something that might be good but it's bad for him as far as not being in the coach's program, ... he's going to suffer," Brett Sr. said. "Ultimately, I paid the price for doing it too much. So what I told him was, 'Whatever the coaches say, you do what the coaches say.' I'm very adamant about my kids. I want to make sure they do their best at whatever. If it's truck driver, you're going to be the best truck driver."
Coming full circle
The Perriman family was in Chicago for the NFL draft, but if Breshad had gotten his way, he would have been anyplace else. He wanted to watch the first round from home, surrounded by family and friends, and not by television cameras, red carpets and unfamiliar faces. Breshad's parents worked on him for two weeks before he consented to go.
There were certainly perks to being there, such as the lavish food spread for guests. Breshad put a piece of chicken and some fruit on his plate, grabbed two Gatorades and that was that. He has always been a picky eater. Growing up, he insisted on having brown sugar and maple oatmeal nearly every meal.
Brett Jr., though, could sense his brother's anxiety level rise with each passing minute. The last thing anybody wanted was for Breshad to be that guy who fell in the draft, cameras chronicling his facial expressions after each selection.
When commissioner Roger Goodell announced that the Ravens had taken Perriman with the 26th overall pick, the wide receiver stood up and smiled broadly. He hugged his father and other family members, later calling the night a "dream come true."
"At first, it started off as a player-coach kind of deal. My dad pretty much taught Breshad everything he needed to know," Brett Jr. said. "But Breshad became a true student of the game. He dedicated himself. By the time college came around, it was more of a player-agent thing. It was more collaborative. Breshad has learned enough to know his own body, to know what works for him and what doesn't. What may work for my father, who is 5-9, may not work for Breshad at 6-2. But it's fun to watch my dad live vicariously through Breshad and be a proud father."
Less than 24 hours later, Breshad was rattling off all the roles that his dad played in his life: father, best friend, teacher, agent. He had one more to add to the list: motivator.
Breshad Perriman had always wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and make it to the NFL. Now that he had, he set a new goal.
"I want to make my own name," he said. "You want to be successful so you won't be labeled as Brett Perriman's son. They'll just know you as Breshad Perriman."
jeff.zrebiec@baltsun.com
twitter.com/jeffzrebiecsun
Name: Breshad Perriman
Age: 21
Height/weight: 6 feet 2, 212 pounds
Hometown: Lithonia, Georgia
College: Central Florida
Personal: Perriman has three older siblings; two brothers (Brett Jr. and Breon) and one sister (Brittney). His father, Brett, played for 10 seasons in the NFL.
Honors: Perriman is the first wide receiver that the Ravens have drafted in the first round since 2005. He was an All-American Athletic Conference first-team selection last year. In 2013, he was a member of the MAAC All-Academic team.
