What You Need to Know:

• Proche ranked 5th among Baltimore WRs in playing time last season.
• Two of the 4 players ahead of him have since left the team. Marquise Brown and Sammy Watkins leave behind 31.9% target share with their departures. Rashod Bateman and Devin Duvernay return, after combining for 18.8% target share in 2021.
• Proche looks like exclusively a slot player. His slot rate actually declined through college, but Proche has run 86.3% of his NFL routes from the slot, according to Pro Football Focus.
• Duvernay also spent 60.8% of his pass snaps in the slot. Proche will need Duvernay to move outside more if he hopes to run as Baltimore’s #3 WR this season. Duvernay saw his 2020 time more evenly split: 47.3% in slot, 52.2% wide.
• Proche ran just a 4.55-second 40 in pre-draft testing, significantly slower than Duvernay’s 4.39 and the 4.43 Bateman ran at his Pro Day.
• Proche racked up receiving lines of 93-1,199-12 and 111-1,225-15 in his final 2 seasons at SMU.

Draft Sharks Bottom Line:

Behind TE Mark Andrews and WR Rashod Bateman, Baltimore has a lot to sort out in the passing game. Proche figures to battle Tylan Wallace for the #3 role, with Devin Duvernay looking like the favorite for the #2 WR spot. It’s probably not a high-upside role for either player, but we’ll see how the competition plays out.