Oregon Ducks offensive coordinator Will Stein discusses the development of young wide receiver Jurrion Dickey.
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00:00 >> Going back to Jurian, I mean, he wasn't, he was still getting healthy last year.
00:04 What have you seen from this spring and
00:06 how what is it about him that makes him that special player?
00:09 >> He knows what to do, he knows where to line up.
00:10 And when you know what to do and know where to line up, you can play fast and
00:13 play to your ability.
00:14 When you're scattered, you don't know where to line up,
00:17 what is that signal looking for help?
00:19 You can't play at full speed cuz you don't know what route to run.
00:23 And that has nothing to do with his intelligence.
00:24 Jurian is an extremely intelligent guy.
00:27 It's just new.
00:28 So now he's at a point, he gets lined up like that, he runs his route, and
00:32 now he looks like the player that we all anticipated he would look like.
00:36 And he's in shape, and he's healthy.
00:38 So I love that kid.
00:40 He has worked his tail off to get in good shape to go out and produce for us.
00:44 And the sky's the limit for Jurian, as we all know.
00:47 >> What does the next step look like for Jurian?
00:48 And you guys obviously have a very deep receiver.
00:50 What does he need to do to kind of earn some playing time this year?
00:53 >> Just keep competing.
00:54 I mean, when the ball's up in the air, go make the play.
00:56 I think he's a big body receiver.
00:59 Our one-on-one contested catches, we expect him to go catch the ball.
01:03 It shouldn't be a 50-50 with him.
01:05 He should go make the play.
01:06 And that's what he's shown.
01:08 He really took a big step in ball prep.
01:10 Cuz there's another 13 practices of spring football.
01:14 We're going over base and stuff again.
01:16 And you saw those down the field routes that developed with him and
01:20 him like some other, like a Troy or like a Fur.
01:23 He's taking the ball up with the defender's heads.