“Initially, I definitely wanted Keon Coleman because when you look at his college tape he was jumping over guys. We have a quarterback that was jumping over guys, so why not get two guys who jump over guys. So I figured that would be a great connection, and then we went and pulled the trigger and we got him. So from there I ended up studying Keon: ‘Oh, he used to play basketball. Okay that’s pretty cool, I used to play basketball.’ So you know you have the skill and the abilities to make plays and to beat defenders because of the basketball, you know, background. But what I didn’t know about Keon was exactly how new he was to the wide receiver game — and I didn’t know this until this past offseason where I got to really talk to him. In the first two seasons I never communicated with Keon. But this offseason I got to get on the phone with him, text message with him, go back and forth with videos, and now I’m understanding that he was just collecting data those first two years — and he still had over 400 yards. So right now I’m even higher on him, that I’ve been able to do some type of mentorship with him and really understand what he’s thinking. He’s (been able) to ask me questions, so I’m really high on Keon, to be honest, as an X-factor. Not as a numbered receiver — one, two, three, four — but as an X-factor who’s gonna make plays when he needs to.”
