Throughout the draft process, the two Bulldogs kept in touch and were constantly asked about each other during media appearances.
“Shoot, you turn on his film and watch him play, every single play will be like a wow moment,” McConkey said of Bowers in an interview with Fox Sports. “But he does that day in and day out. He’s an all-around guy, can play every single position. [You] can probably put him on defense, and he’d go out there and get it done. I know he’s going to go high and he’s going to make some team real happy.”
Raiders tight ends coach Luke Steckel held similar feelings about Bowers’ potential as an NFL player.
“He’s probably the best college tight end I had personally evaluated coming out of college,” Steckel said. “I think there were a lot of people in this building that agreed with me on that evaluation. When I saw a lot of the players going off the board that weren’t him, I knew there was a possibility. As it got closer to our pick, I was getting excited. Still thought it was too good to be true. Got a quick heads up before it was announced on television and I couldn’t have been happier. I was excited, pounding the table celebrating. My birthday falls around draft weekend, it felt like a pretty good gift at the time.”
McConkey, meanwhile, is somebody the Raiders will certainly be keyed in on defensively this weekend. He has led Los Angeles in receiving yards in 10 of his 15 games played and is coming off a 94-yard, two-touchdown performance last week against New England.
“As soon as he got here in OTAs, we’ve kind of talked about how special he was,” Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert said this week. “He’s just got such great feel for the game. As quickly as he picked up the offense, we knew that he was going to be able to be out there and we were going to ask a lot of him. We ask a ton of him route-wise and positional, so he’s done just a fantastic job, and I don’t think anyone is really surprised with how…
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