Emeka Egbuka Drawing Coverage

With a plethora of injuries to the wide receiver room, including ones suffered by Mike Evans, Chris Godwin Jr. and Jalen McMillan, rookie Emeka Egbuka has emerged as the team's bona fide No. 1 on the depth chart. With his efficiency between the hashes, defenses have begun allocating resources to the first-year player by rolling safeties to his side of the field. Egbuka is the only player in NFL history with 25-plus receptions, 400-plus receiving yards, and five-plus receiving touchdowns through his first five career games. He controls the catch point and is a route-running technician, finding ways to manipulate the leverage of coverage with nuances. Egbuka drawing attention has created advantageous matchups for Tez Johnson, Sterling Shepard and Cade Otton. Of

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