“He brings a massive receiver, explosive ability,” Canales said of Legette after the first camp practice. “He can make things happen on short passes, he can stretch the field and go get it.
“My expectation for Xavier, I’m wide open. I’m wide open to how quickly he can really assimilate himself into this offense and pick it up so that he has just kind of a rhythmic flow for what he’s doing…I just want him to get better one day at a time, same message as we just kind of talked about, and I’m open to whatever that looks like.”
But for Legette, it wasn’t enough, because there could have been more.
“I feel like I wasn’t really (paying) attention to detail today, so I need to buy in on that for the rest of the practices,” Legette added. “I didn’t have any (catches) today and really just mainly like, kind of getting open a little better than I was, mainly like using my hands and that (is the goal).”
The former South Carolina receiver reconnected with another Gamecock success story, 49ers Swiss Army knife Deebo Samuel. The two trained, alongside Ricky Pearsall (49ers), Parris Campbell (Eagles) and Isaiah Hodgins (Giants) this summer in California. It wasn’t long before Legette was back to not only fighting weight, but receiver speed.
A video circulating social media showed Legette and Samuel racing on a treadmill. Asked on Wednesday who won, Legette smirked and answered, “you already know I won.”
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