The fourth-round pick has put himself in position to be a Week 1 contributor. For a guy without great stopwatch speed, he has routinely gotten behind the secondary, whether it’s on the practice field, Family Night, preseason or joint practices.
Against the Saints on Tuesday, he ran a double-move. The route wasn’t fantastic but his speed was incredible as he raced past the cornerback. The problem is he dropped what would have been a touchdown of about 70 yards. That’s on top of a couple drops against the 49ers and one on Family Night.
“You keep dropping the ball, you’re not going to be out there,” Rodgers said when asked nonspecifically about Doubs. “It’s going to be the most reliable guys that are out there. The preparation and the job responsibility is most important. There’s going to be physical mistakes, like we’ve talked about, but if you’re going out there and dropping the ball and somebody else behind you is in the right spot all the time and catching the ball, that guy’s going to play.”
The ”preparation and job responsibility” were at the heart of Wednesday morning’s quarterbacks-receivers meeting. Under the premise that less thinking equals better playing, perhaps Doubs’ hands will improve once he feels more comfortable with everything that comes before making the catch.
“Obviously for a young player, he’s had an outstanding first training camp, which is really good to see,” general manager Brian Gutekunst said. “As you go through training camp, as many as I’ve been through, you see guys will start out and then as you get to a certain point, the physical toll, the mental toll kind of comes into play a little bit and there’s usually little dips.
“So, I think a lot of our players, not just the young guys but even some of the veterans have had some of that as the training camp has gone on. But we’re always looking for that consistency, right? You can make too much of the evaluation process in training camp because a lot of times it’s just working to that point, but Romeo has shown enough in his brief time here that we think he can help us.”
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