2026 5th round pick is Reggie Virgil WR

[TruColor]

Wish ESPN would respect the players as they come off the board and get selected to an NFL team. As the Cards selected Virgil, the ESPN talking heads were yucking it up with Rams HC McVay about the selection of QB Simpson.

Virgil didn't get his 5 minutes of fame or the highlight clip. He was barely mentioned later after McVay was finished mugging for the camera.

I will make my disappointment known to ESPN. Welcome to AZ Mr. Virgil. Make those tools know who you are during the regular season.

I watched that. McVay starts every answer with "Hey...!". Really annoying.

 

[football karma]

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I see PHNX is in their Manic phase of their manic/depressive coverage of the Cards

i wouldnt say explosive

he looks like he was a reliable chain mover for Tex Tech

 

[Proteus]

What's the point of drafting this guy? He's not a speed wide receiver (4.57 40 time) nor one of those Shanahan/McVay motion, high degree of separation type guys.

 

[Proteus]

More likely an Xavier Weaver replacement

Weaver ran a 4.47 40 at his pro day. This guy ran 4.57 40 at the combine.
Doh...I inadvertently wrote 4.7 originally for Weaver's 40 time.

 

[az jam]

Larry Fitzgerald ran a 4.63 at the Indy Combine and Anquan Boldin ran a 4.71
Virgil's strength is that he is a possession receiver with very good hands.

 

[oaken1]

What's the point of drafting this guy? He's not a speed wide receiver (4.57 40 time) nor one of those Shanahan/McVay motion, high degree of separation type guys.

He is a good receiver. He gets yac, .hard to bring down for such a thin guy.
He tracks the ball really well.
Adding a good player is always a good idea.

Be better if he ran a 4.2 certainly. But he has good game speed regardless of his 40 time.
...and Mike Wilson is gonna ask for 30 million next january...team needs some leverage and a safety net just in case

 

[Delmar M Lewis]

I can run 5 minutes flat

That beats me Ime a sub 1 hour guy myself and that for the 20 yard dash 2 hours might get me to the 40

 

[Totally_Red]

Maybe he can help MHJ make more contested catches. SARCASM

 

[Proximo]

Greg Dortch’s replacement.

Hopefully an upgrade to the WR3 position.

No, Dortch’s replacement is Kendrick Borne, who is a nice upgrade.

 

[Russ Smith]

Yeah I wanted speed but the guys I wanted were all gone. Seems like a guy who can go up and get the ball so that's good.

5th rounder so not expecting a star

 

[Proteus]

Yeah I wanted speed but the guys I wanted were all gone. Seems like a guy who can go up and get the ball so that's good.

5th rounder so not expecting a star

Deion Burks ran a 4.3 40 and was available.

 

[Russ Smith]

Deion Burks ran a 4.3 40 and was available.

Wasn't very productive but is fast

 

[Proteus]

Wasn't very productive but is fast

I'd rather have drafted him than Virgil.

 

[Lomax to Green 84]

Virgil must have excellent playing speed because the Texas Tech announcers always referred to Virgil as having elite speed. Maybe he just didn’t train properly for the 40?

 

[Delmar M Lewis]

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Reggie Virgil said Monti Ossenfort told him during his 30 visit that he was glad he ran a 4.57-second 40 time to get pushed down draft boards.A few weeks later, the Cardinals snagged Virgil in the fifth round.

You know its funny but we all sit here and say 4.5-4.6 is slow when probably in the pre combine days those time were blazing fast (of course times werent measured back then either) times have definitely changed

 

[oaken1]

Virgil must have excellent playing speed because the Texas Tech announcers always referred to Virgil as having elite speed. Maybe he just didn’t train properly for the 40?

If you watch the film his game speed is fine. Not a burner ..but fast enough.

 

[Russ Smith]

Virgil must have excellent playing speed because the Texas Tech announcers always referred to Virgil as having elite speed. Maybe he just didn’t train properly for the 40?

I'm not that familiar with him but if you google him the lack of speed is a pretty common point so it's either from his 40 time at the combine, or actual production or both.

I won't write him off his 40 time is faster than Boldin's was for example and look how good he panned out, you never know. He just seems redundant to me. MHJ doesn't play as fast as we were told he was. Mike is great but he's not a burner. Bourne I like, but again not a burner. We have a bunch of big WR's, Bourne is the smallest at 6'1" but not much speed. Doesn't mean it's impossible to overcome the Rams have had a great passing game and they didn't have burners either. So maybe CMLF will be able to create a good offense

 

[Russ Smith]

You know its funny but we all sit here and say 4.5-4.6 is slow when probably in the pre combine days those time were blazing fast (of course times werent measured back then either) times have definitely changed

The 40 thing is also "new". I'm old enough to remember when they always talked about how Mel Gray ran a 9.2 or 9.3 100, yards of course not meters. Denver had a guy who was similarly fast and the Colts had Carr(?) who was about the same, Raiders had Cliff Branch.Nobody talked about 40 times.

At some point people figured out the 40 was more relevant to football than the 100 time was.

Also guys are just trained differently, if you saw Gray or Branch they were small skinny guys. Branch is the uncle of Zach Branch who just went to the Falcons if you see Zach Branch in a tshirt with the sleeves cut off that kid is put together, he doesn't weigh much more than Cliff did but way more muscular and that helps with the speed. I mean look Tyreek Hill that dude is a tank

 

[speedy]

Larry Fitzgerald ran a 4.63 at the Indy Combine and Anquan Boldin ran a 4.71
Virgil's strength is that he is a possession receiver with very good hands.

Yes yes yes. The 40 time is grossly overrated.

 

[speedy]

Probably didn’t need another skill guy, but they must have seen something they really liked. I’m down with this selection. He has the potential to revive this thread in a couple years hahaha

 

[MadCardDisease]

What's the point of drafting this guy? He's not a speed wide receiver (4.57 40 time) nor one of those Shanahan/McVay motion, high degree of separation type guys.

Puca ran a 4.57 as well

 

[oaken1]

I'm not that familiar with him but if you google him the lack of speed is a pretty common point so it's either from his 40 time at the combine, or actual production or both.

I won't write him off his 40 time is faster than Boldin's was for example and look how good he panned out, you never know. He just seems redundant to me. MHJ doesn't play as fast as we were told he was. Mike is great but he's not a burner. Bourne I like, but again not a burner. We have a bunch of big WR's, Bourne is the smallest at 6'1" but not much speed. Doesn't mean it's impossible to overcome the Rams have had a great passing game and they didn't have burners either. So maybe CMLF will be able to create a good offense

But...we have two RB's that run 4.3

gotta count for something...we have some speed.

 

[JRakes]

Ewww

 

[oaken1]

Puca ran a 4.57 as well

that just tickles me..as a young Oak...I ran a 4.56 at 265 lbs

always gives me the feel goods to see these smaller athletes be slower than I was...that,..."One"...time, lol.
I cling to that 4.56 because Im pretty sure my base speed was closer to 4.7

but dammit, I clocked a 4.56!! LOL

 

[Proximo]

Virgil must have excellent playing speed because the Texas Tech announcers always referred to Virgil as having elite speed. Maybe he just didn’t train properly for the 40?

Um no. The guy is clearly not that fast in the videos. Don’t listen to announcers about anything.