The New York Jets selected Baylor wide receiver Denzel Mims in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft on Friday evening.
Mims (6-3, 207 pounds) ran a 40-yard dash in 4.38 seconds and bench-pressed 225 pounds 16 times at the combine earlier this offseason. NFL.com’s Lance Zierlein has compared Mims to Tre’Quan Smith, who was a third-round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft.
“If the route work and intensity catch up with his natural athletic ability, he could become a dangerous ‘Z’ receiver in a vertical offense, but the floor might be lower than some teams are comfortable with,” Zierlein wrote of Mims on NFL.com before the draft.
During his final three seasons with the Bears, Mims totaled 182 catches for 2,901 yards and 28 touchdowns. Mims was the fifth-best wide receiver in this year’s class, according to Luke Easterling’s rankings for Draft Wire.
Alabama’s Jerry Jeudy and Henry Ruggs, Oklahoma’s CeeDee Lamb and LSU’s Justin Jefferson were the only wide receives that Draft Wire had ranked higher than Mims going into the draft.
