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Expectations were low for McLaurin as a third-round selection out of Ohio State. He was the definition of an outlier—poor college resumé, underwhelming analytics profile, and returned for his senior year. Furthermore; he was a 24 year-old rookie, without a registered Break Out Age. Yikes.

Guys like that aren’t supposed to succeed, but he wasted no time proving everyone wrong, posting 125 receiving yards and a touchdown in his first-ever NFL game. He should’ve had 198 yards and two touchdowns, but Case Keenum badly overthrew McLaurin on a double move after torching the poor Eagles secondary. Go figure.

He posted one of the best rookie seasons ever by a WR drafted in round three or later. Compare his numbers to the leaders in yards among WRs with similar-or-worse draft capital: