Jackson Meeks NFL Draft Scouting Report

Jackson Meeks, WR, Syracuse

Size: 

Height: 6’2” I Weight: 210 pounds

Accomplishments:

Three-star recruit

“Jackson Meeks is a physical receiver who isn't afraid to take punishing hits over the middle of the field and consistently demonstrates his impressive catch radius."

Strengths:

• Zone feel/timing

• Adjusting to the football

• Hands through contact

• Catch radius

Concerns:

• Wasted movement

• Vertical speed

• Telegraphs route breaks

• Creating separation

Film Analysis:

Jackson Meeks was a three-star recruit who played for Central High School and helped them to an 8-5 record in his senior season. While there isn’t a record of his senior season stats, he compiled 14 catches for 135 yards and a touchdown combined as a sophomore and junior. He committed to Georgia, where he played in 36 games for the Bulldogs, but mostly on special teams. Before transferring to Syracuse for his senior year, he had 10 receptions for 132 yards and no touchdowns in his Georgia career. He broke out as a senior with 78 receptions for 1,021 yards and seven touchdowns for an explosive Orange offense before declaring for the 2025 NFL Draft.

A big-bodied receiver at 6-foot-2 and 210 pounds, Meeks played predominantly on the outside for Syracuse as a senior. He has the “X” receiver body type, and his go-to release uses an outside jab step to freeze defenders with an inside path to take advantage of the space created. He sways back and forth in his stem, wasting movement while trying to get upfield and up to speed. Cleaning up his stem movement will allow him to attack defensive backs quicker with the added ability to sell routes vertically. He can add more variation to his releases, but when he cleanly gets upfield he becomes a quick option for his quarterback with good hands through contact. At the top of his routes, Meeks tends to run into defensive backs and create encounters where he has to physically get open and free from man coverage players, throwing off the timing of the route. He’s unafraid of contact and has active hands throughout the route and at the top to fight for space.

He’s inconsistent with his route breaks and telegraphs inside movement with a deliberate outside jab when he doesn’t quickly attack defenders. Still, he makes up for it at the catch point with a willingness to go over the middle of the field and hands through contact. He’s an adept zone-finding receiver who knows how to sit down underneath in a zone. He can also attack defenders in space, knowing where they’ll end up and taking advantage of the vacated space, and gets upfield quickly. Meeks isn’t a gifted yards-after-the-catch player, but he sees space well and angles his body out of the way to get an extra yard when he can.

Some of his best attributes come at the catch point, such as his great sense of locating the ball, his ability to adjust to the throw with his catch radius, and body control along the sideline. He can get re-routed with physicality against man coverage, and creating separation against better man corners is a work in progress. Still, he works through the rep and is very good at post-route movement to find space and become available.

Meeks needs to clean up the wasted movement and telegraphing when running his routes to better manipulate and attack defenders. That will open up more ways for him to win, but his physicality in all areas, including blocking, zone feel, and adjustments to the football, are all attributes that can help out NFL teams. His special teams play is another way to get on a roster and stick.

Prospect Projection: Day 3 — Developmental Traits

Written By: Daniel Harms

Exposures: NC State (2024), Miami (2024), UNLV (2024), Washington State (2024), California (2024)

Jackson Meeks NFL Draft Scouting Report