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The Washington Commanders selected Virginia Tech wide receiver Jaylin Lane with their fourth round pick in the 2025 NFL draft. At the combine, Lane measured in at 5-foot-10, 191 pounds and then had a performance to remember in the athletic testing drills. He caught everyone's attention with his 4.34 40-yard dash time and his 1.5 second 10-yard split, but he also had impressive numbers in other drills too. He jump 40-inches in the vertical jump and 11-feet in the broad jump, while his 6.75 second three-cone drill time was the fourth fastest of any player at the combine.
Now those testing numbers are only guidelines that need to be crosschecked with the film to see if it transfers to the football field. With Lane, it does. It backs up what you see on tape, which is an explosive athlete with great short area quickness and terrific long speed. At his size, he profiles as someone more likely to work from the slot than outside, but that speed works anywhere and everywhere.
This play is a good example of Lane’s speed and deep threat ability. He lines up in the slot to the right and runs right down the middle of the field. The defense drops back into zone coverage but the deep safety is just slightly late to react to Lane. Lane runs his route to look like a deep over route, which makes the safety think he’s fine where he’s at, but Lane suddenly takes off down the middle of the field. By that point, with Lane’s speed and acceleration, the safety has no chance to flip his hips and run with him. Lane runs away from the safety and into the wide open field.
This is where we see Lane’s ability to track the ball down the field. Having speed is great, but if you can’t track the ball down the field while running at speed, then it’s useless. When the quarterback releases the throw, Lane is in the middle of the field. He turns and locates the ball in the air and does a great job adjusting his path as he tracks the trajectory of the throw. He follows the ball all the way out to the numbers and makes the tracking look easy as he runs underneath the pass smoothly on his way to a 66-yard touchdown pass.
That speed is great for vertical routes down the field and the ball tracking makes him a real deep threat, but the speed plays elsewhere too.
...That ability to make sharp cuts and win with quickness should become a huge asset for Lane at the next level, especially working out of the slot. Quick slot receivers can be a huge threat over the middle of the field on things like choice routes where their quickness can see them beat a less athletic defender and run open over the middle of the field...
The Washington Commanders selected Virginia Tech wide receiver Jaylin Lane with their fourth round pick in the 2025 NFL draft. At the combine, Lane measured in at 5-foot-10, 191 pounds and then had a performance to remember in the athletic testing drills. He caught everyone's attention with his 4.34 40-yard dash time and his 1.5 second 10-yard split, but he also had impressive numbers in other drills too. He jump 40-inches in the vertical jump and 11-feet in the broad jump, while his 6.75 second three-cone drill time was the fourth fastest of any player at the combine.
Now those testing numbers are only guidelines that need to be crosschecked with the film to see if it transfers to the football field. With Lane, it does. It backs up what you see on tape, which is an explosive athlete with great short area quickness and terrific long speed. At his size, he profiles as someone more likely to work from the slot than outside, but that speed works anywhere and everywhere.
This play is a good example of Lane’s speed and deep threat ability. He lines up in the slot to the right and runs right down the middle of the field. The defense drops back into zone coverage but the deep safety is just slightly late to react to Lane. Lane runs his route to look like a deep over route, which makes the safety think he’s fine where he’s at, but Lane suddenly takes off down the middle of the field. By that point, with Lane’s speed and acceleration, the safety has no chance to flip his hips and run with him. Lane runs away from the safety and into the wide open field.
This is where we see Lane’s ability to track the ball down the field. Having speed is great, but if you can’t track the ball down the field while running at speed, then it’s useless. When the quarterback releases the throw, Lane is in the middle of the field. He turns and locates the ball in the air and does a great job adjusting his path as he tracks the trajectory of the throw. He follows the ball all the way out to the numbers and makes the tracking look easy as he runs underneath the pass smoothly on his way to a 66-yard touchdown pass.
That speed is great for vertical routes down the field and the ball tracking makes him a real deep threat, but the speed plays elsewhere too.
...That ability to make sharp cuts and win with quickness should become a huge asset for Lane at the next level, especially working out of the slot. Quick slot receivers can be a huge threat over the middle of the field on things like choice routes where their quickness can see them beat a less athletic defender and run open over the middle of the field...
