Rylan Copeland is a junior wide receiver and safety at New Bern High in North Carolina, and the two things his file was missing are now on it: a verified forty and a stat line. The forty is 4.58, backed by a 4.4 shuttle and a 7.5 three-cone — and the three-cone is the number that matters most for a slot receiver, because it measures the change of direction a route tree is actually built on. The production came this junior season: 34 catches for 353 yards and three touchdowns, plus 325 yards on kickoff returns. That is 678 all-purpose yards from a 160-pound junior, with return work that says his staff trusts him in space. A 3.88 GPA still leads the profile. At a position where boards run deep and a lot of prospects look alike on paper, a transcript like that is what gets a receiver onto lists at academic-first programs, and it is the one recruiting number a player controls completely. A 215-pound bench and a 235-pound power clean give him real pound-for-pound strength to go with it.
Junior slot receiver: 4.58 forty, 678 all-purpose yards, 3.88 GPA
