The 2024 NFL Draft is here, making it an excellent time to highlight some of the class' best players with scouting reports. Each report will include strengths, weaknesses and background information.
Here's our report on Jamari Thrash.
Thrash will be a difficult projection, given that he does not have great size and lacks any kind of vertical dimension (play speed does not match his good 40 time). He does not have reliable hands, too often gathering to catch the ball or letting the ball get past his eyes on in-breaking routes.
Thrash has a marginal traits profile and looks small on tape. It is hard to see how he will transition to the NFL in any meaningful way since he struggled to win 1-on-1 at Louisville in 2023. Thrash looked like a different receiver at Georgia State in 2022, with more natural quickness to his movement, including catching some balls with his hands away from his frame, better vertical speed and overall route running.
He tracked the deep ball with excellent hand-eye coordination. Thrash has few snaps in the slot, so it is a significant projection to say he will best transition to the NFL as a slot receiver. Yet, he lacks unique quickness, high-level spatial awareness, natural toughness and play strength as a receiver, given the number of collision catches that happen working out of the slot.
The bottom line is that Thrash still lacks the higher-level traits to be a top-three wide receiver in 11 personnel packages. With his lack of size and play strength, it would be hard to envision him as an outside receiver in the NFL. His less-than-reliable hands will likely be an issue whether you see him as an outside or slot receiver.
Thrash finished his college career with one season at Louisville after four seasons at Georgia State. Thrash originally came out of Georgia as a three-star recruit.
Thrash almost exclusively lined up on the right side of the offensive formation and was almost exclusively an outside receiver with only a low percentage of his snaps coming in the slot. The high percentage of his big plays in 2023 came on schemed concepts that broke down the defense as opposed to individual route running beating corners.
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