Another one. Yes, it looks like GM Kevin Colbert has unearthed another gem of a wide receiver he did not pick in the first round. , who's basically half receiver, half tight end at 6-feet-4 and 238 pounds, erupted for four touchdowns -- three through the air -- in Pittsburgh's intrastate win over the in Week 5. He's now up to 13 catches for 261 yards (20.08 yards per) in his first four profe sional outings.It's early for a bold statement like what you're about to read, but because his size, athletic gifts and situation in Pittsburgh, Claypool has everything needed to become a player we look back upon as a pioneer in the gradually expanding position-le s NFL.On the most recent Dallas Cowboys Jersey episode of , Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin spoke about when and how Claypool caught the team's eye:"We fell in love with Claypool by the way he sunk his teeth into the special teams combat down in Mobile at the Senior Bowl. He was special teams MVP at Notre Dame in his second year at school there. So he showed football awarene s and things that were outside the wide receiver position, and for us, we believe that's a good indicator that you've got a football player and they're going to do the things that the wide receiver position requires."Claypool was my in the 2020 cla s. (Yes, I adored the wideout group. Trevon Diggs Jersey ) When the Steelers picked him at No. 49 overall, I wrote the following after :Freaky size and combine but doesn't play to his speed. Will struggle to separate. Aggre sive, at times dominant rebounder who will box out downfield. Positional versatility. Adds size element to Steelers receiver group.Ahhh yes. Claypool's combine. At that gargantuan size, he ran 4.42, had a 40.5-inch vertical and his broad jump placed in the 83rd percentile at the receiver position. He's freaky explosive.Of his 22 targets thus far, three have been broken up, and a few incompletions were errant throws from when Claypool simply wasn't open. So he's still having some trouble separating.But the Steelers have done a marvelous job catering to Claypool's strengths. While legitimately tight end size, he spent the majority of his 2019 season at Notre Dame as a perimeter receiver (around 85% of his routes run). And 56 of his 83 routes run to date have come near the boundary. But, after his opening two NFL contests saw him run a combined four routes Amari Cooper Jersey from the slot, Claypool ran 12 of them from that advantageous alignment against the Eagles and raked with three catches for 47 yards and two of his touchdowns.His other score against Philly was a 32-yarder sparked by a nasty release at the line of scrimmage against and capped by forcing safety to mi s a tackle just shy of the 15-yard line. His work against pre s coverage on that play reminded me of a pre-draft Tik Tok I sent to illustrate how Claypool utilizes his explosivene s as a weapon at the start of his routes.To put it simply: Notre Dame WR Chase Claypool is big and Roger Staubach Jersey explosive The end of that play demonstrated another, more obvious, strength of Claypool's game -- high-pointing the football in traffic. And that's when he really resembles a tight end. He had 15 contested catches last season at Notre Dame, three more than and four more than .And Claypool's second NFL catch was a demonstration of his ability to make plays above the rim when he can't generate separation. Against top cornerback -- who just so happens to be one of the longest corners in the league -- the rookie ran up the sideline, looked back shoulder then tracked the football gorgeously into his outstretched hands above his helmet before taking a big hit from safety near the sideline. And he tapped his feet in bounds. Claypool's been more receiver than tight end early in Pittsburgh. And his release work at the line coupled with intimidating size makes him a difficult matchup on the outside even if he's not a super-twitchy separator. But now his slot snap rate is up to 32.5%, which places him right between at 27.7% and at 41.9%, the two best tight ends in football. I expect Claypool to stay in that range of slot snaps.While we shouldn't expect multiple touchdowns every week, after being utilized Dallas Cowboys Kids Jersey sparingly in the Steelers' first three games of 2020, Claypool proved to coaches he can be a focal point of the offense as a tight end-esque mismatch for linebackers, corners, and safeties from multiple pre-snap alignments.(All advanced stats courtesy of TruMedia unle s otherwise noted.)