2018 NFL combine: Multiple teams reportedly ask Lamar Jackson to do wide receiver tests

2018 NFL combine: Multiple teams reportedly ask Lamar Jackson to do wide receiver tests

 

 

Lamar Jackson is the Rodney Dangerfield of the 2018 NFL combine, because he can’t get no respect. Jackson, a former Heisman Trophy winner who is considered a likely first- or second-round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, is a quarterback.

And yet, multiple teams, according to a report from Peter Schrager of “Good Morning Football”, want Jackson to test at the combine as a wide receiver.

The logic here — of the request, not the report — is specious at best.

Essentially, because Jackson is fast and capable of ripping off explosive plays with the ball in his hands, teams are thinking he could potentially shift…