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Mavric

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Stanley Morgan, Jr. - WR
School: Nebraska | Year: Senior 

No, Morgan is not the son of the former NFL receiver of the same name. But he has an NFL future, to be sure, as he possesses the speed, size and physicality to win inside and outside at the next level. Morgan will need new Huskers head coach Scott Frost to develop a new quarterback this summer in order to maximize the receiver's talents in his senior season.
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Morgan's numbers may not be that good this year. Frost's offenses have a habit of spreading the ball around. We may not have a 1000 yard receiver, but sill lead the BIG in passing.

 
MichiganDad3 said:
Morgan's numbers may not be that good this year. Frost's offenses have a habit of spreading the ball around. We may not have a 1000 yard receiver, but sill lead the BIG in passing.
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Stanley Morgan 61/986/16.2 avg

Tre'quan Smith 59/1171/19.8 avg

Morgan got a lot of plays in Riley's offense like a 7 yard hitch, and you're going to get about 7 yards on that play. Riley's offense, at least the one we saw, limited a player like Morgan.

Morgan is expected to play the X, or weak side receiver, like Smith did, and should see the same potential opportunities that he did. They'll obviously move him around to create mismatches the way they do with everyone. 

 
Up to now Noah Fant has probably loved every minute of going to Iowa and putting up #'s against NU.  However the way Frost uses TE's  NF could have been elite in our offense this year.

 
MichiganDad3 said:
Morgan's numbers may not be that good this year. Frost's offenses have a habit of spreading the ball around. We may not have a 1000 yard receiver, but sill lead the BIG in passing.
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I see what you're saying.  And I don't disagree.  But there also should be more stats to spread around.  UCF averaged about 150 more yards per game than Nebraska did last year.  Competition is obviously different but Morgan might have a smaller piece of the pie but it should be a bigger pie.

 
Mavric said:
I see what you're saying.  And I don't disagree.  But there also should be more stats to spread around.  UCF averaged about 150 more yards per game than Nebraska did last year.  Competition is obviously different but Morgan might have a smaller piece of the pie but it should be a bigger pie.
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If Morgan's your top guy, and certainly we can question that premise, he's still in there the vast, vast majority of snaps the way Smith was at UCF. 

UCF had more yards and more unique players catch passes....but the distribution for the top two receivers was not greatly dissimilar to Nebraska, (59/46 vs 61/55)......after that UCF simply had a lot more to spread to a lot more different players.

 
brophog said:
If Morgan's your top guy, and certainly we can question that premise, he's still in there the vast, vast majority of snaps the way Smith was at UCF. 

UCF had more yards and more unique players catch passes....but the distribution for the top two receivers was not greatly dissimilar to Nebraska, (59/46 vs 61/55)......after that UCF simply had a lot more to spread to a lot more different players.
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Yeah, I agree.  Even +1ed your post above.

Last year Morgan caught 61 of our 234 completed passes (26.1%).  Smith caught 59 of UCF's 287 completions (20.6%).  

So Nebraska might spread the ball around more - like UCF did last year as @MichiganDad3 said - but since there is a bigger pie to be shared that wouldn't mean his stats would go down.

 
Mavric said:
Yeah, I agree.  Even +1ed your post above.

Last year Morgan caught 61 of our 234 completed passes (26.1%).  Smith caught 59 of UCF's 287 completions (20.6%).  

So Nebraska might spread the ball around more - like UCF did last year as @MichiganDad3 said - but since there is a bigger pie to be shared that wouldn't mean his stats would go down.
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If Morgan has 59 catches, it would take 17 yards/catch to reach 1000 yards. Morgan may be able to do it. Smith has 57 receptions in 2016, so there wasn't much difference in his catches from years 1 and 2 of Frost's offense. The big difference was in yards/ catch improving from 15.0 to 19.9.

 
Morgan won't need a stellar year to get drafted in a decent round.  He's big, fast and has soft hands.  And will have four years of highlight film to prove it. With a decent year he could easily have over 2500 yards in his career at NU.  

 
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