When Detroit lions written Arkansas The wide receiver Isaac Teslaa in the third round of the NFL 2025 draft, the initial reaction was that Teslaa was a development project. His meager university production and his relative lack of strip of strong games in two years with the Razorbacks have led a lot to call Teslaa a “scope”.
During the first half of the lions’ pre-season and almost a month of training camp, Teslaa quickly turns out to be much more ready for the NFL and very talented than consensus did not think it.
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Teslaa moves in a wide room of the deep lions. He will not threaten All-Pro Amon-Ra St. Brown or fast emerging star Jameson Williams, but Teslaa obtains representatives of the first team in front of the solid veterinarians Kalif Raymond and Tim Patrick sometimes. And the recruit to the hair of Vadrouille, which grew up in a fan of lions in the region of Grand Rapids, draws the best party of these representatives.
The first thing that stands out from Teslaa’s performance in the camp and in the first two pre-season games of Detroit is its ability to catch the ball proper from its body. Everything is taken in his hands, not trapped on his chest or shoulder. Its size (6 feet 4 inches) and its strength make n ° 18 a huge target. Teslaa has shown that in a recent joint practice against Miami,
For a guy who only caught 62 assists in 25 games at Arkansas, the varnish of his itinerary is much more advanced than much planned. Teslaa can vary its stride and change the speeds good enough for a guy with long legs, and his ability to align in the slit – where the Arkansas has mainly deployed it – or outside allows it to have an impact on defense in more than ways than a third typical tower.
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But it is the blockage where Teslaa really won over her Lions teammates. “No Block, No Rock” is not an intelligent slogan with Detroit; These are the facts of life in Dan Campbell’s offensive. And Teslaa has proven that he is already blocking like a tight end. In Wednesday training, a dolphins annoyed Jack Jones was frustrated by Teslaa pushing him into the racing game and overturned the recruit helmet. Teslaa did not flash and continued to continue Jones, at the great appreciation of WR Scottie Montgomery coach and his offensive lions comrades.
It is difficult to say how many Teslaa goals will get in the regular season. The Lions offensive is responsible for reception talents apart from St. Brown and Williams, with an excellent you receiving you at Sam Laporta and two excellent runners at Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery. The simple fact that Teslaa pushes to join this mixture right away and is not a development project of day 2 was a very pleasant development for Detroit.
This article originally appeared on Draft Wire: Lions 3rd round Wr Isaac Teslaa proving that he is not a project after all
