Keon Coleman — NFL Mock Draft Roundup 1.0

The Texans have had a great season, and are surprisingly one of the 8 teams still standing (as of this writing)! With $61M in effective cap space for 2024, the team cap use this largesse to sign quality free agents. The Texans are weak at applying pressure to the opposing QB (119 pressures 25th in the NFL), but they're one of the few team that can afford to bring aboard the likes of Chase Young, Josh Allen or Daniell [sic] Hunter.

On the offensive side, Nico Collins emerged as an intergral component to QB CJ Stroud's unprecedented success. A free agent in 2025, GM Nick Caserio may look to lock up Collins early with a long term deal. Even with Collins on board long-term, and diminuitive Tank Dell showing a quality rookie season (47 catches, 7 TD in 11 games), a true #1 could really push CJ Stroud to new heights.

Kansas City has not invested in the wide receiver room. Its approach has been making trades and signing players with one foot or both feet out the door of their prior team. Keon Coleman and Rashee Rice is a good way to start re-shaping the narrative.

Coleman is the big-bodied weapon the Buccaneers clearly like to feature in their offense.

The Colts add a top playmaker at wide receiver in Keon Coleman to pair with their young quarterback, Anthony Richardson.

Coleman (6-4, 215) isn't a burner and doesn't have elite start-stop skills to instantly separate at the top of routes. But he is athletic with impressive body control and catch-point skills to turn off-target throws into completions. With his crazy catch radius, Coleman would give Josh Allen a different type of weapon than he is used to.

For Keon Coleman, I want to see an increased willingness to overpower defenders inside a phone booth when he's not in the air. Still, he remains one of the premier talents in the class and this spot with Patrick Mahomes is a perfect player-team scenario. A former standout on the hardwood, Coleman turns 50-50 balls into 90-10 opportunities and has the versatility to return kicks as well. His ceiling is immense.

A physical receiver with a ridiculously long frame, Keon Coleman plays bigger than his 6'4″, 216-pound frame. Moving from Tallahassee to Tampa, Coleman instantly became Bucs fans' fan favorite with his highlight-reel ability and yards-after-the-catch threat.

Regardless who the Bears have under center, they'll need to find him another dynamic receiver to pair with DJ Moore. Coleman, a Biletnikoff Award semifinalist, features a combination of size (6-4, 215), strength and speed uncommon in receivers.

One of the big questions this offseason surrounding the Jacksonville Jaguars will be if they give Calvin Ridley a contract extension. Giving him a new deal would mean that Jacksonville would surrender its 2024 second-round pick to the Falcons.

Ridley was fine in 2023, but he wasn't good enough to give away another top-50 selection. That would leave the Jaguars with a need at receiver, and Keon Coleman could give the receiving corps the size and athleticism it would desperately need.

The Ravens got a shifty, creative wide receiver in Zay Flowers last year in Round 1. Now, they grab a big-bodied, above-the-rim target in Keon Coleman. His play style fits with Lamar Jackson's ability to create magic out of structure.

Tee Higgins is a pending free agent and will command a big payday on the open market. Cincinnati could extend or franchise tag him thanks to a plethora of salary cap space, but may opt to draft a replacement instead.

Selecting Coleman would allow the Bengals the chance to swap out one sure-handed, crisp-running 6-foot-4 star with another, providing the big-bodied complement that helps Ja'Marr Chase and Joe Burrow thrive. Better yet, he'd provide a big red zone threat after scoring 11 touchdowns in 12 games last season.

Trevor Lawrence and his targets lacked continuity and chemistry in the passing game, and the Jaguars' wide receiver group had a 4.3% drop rate, sixth worst in the NFL. One missing element is a true 50-50 ball winner on the outside, and at 6-foot-4 and 215 pounds, Coleman can come down with contested catches (13 this season). He would also alleviate some of the attention on Calvin Ridley and open up things inside for Christian Kirk and Evan Engram.

The Michigan State transfer had a terrific year (50 catches, 11 TDs) and at 6-foot-4, slides in nicely to the spot Mike Evans has occupied for nearly a decade.