LaJohntay Wester wasn’t precisely shocked by his 87-yard punt return for a tourchdown throughout Thursday’s preseason opener towards the Colts. Actually, the Ravens‘ rookie sixth-round choose truly predicted that he would rating a landing in his first-ever NFL sport.
“I had a fantastic joint follow with them a pair days in the past, and I got here near breaking one in follow,” Wester mentioned afterwards, per ESPN. “After that, I had known as my dad and was identical to, ‘I really feel one coming [Thursday].'”
Wester’s phrases got here to fruition on his second punt return late within the first quarter when he broke a number of tackles earlier than discovering a seam down the suitable sideline.
“He said he was gonna take one to the crib,” mentioned Ravens working again Keaton Mitchell. “And he did it. However yeah, he is an athlete, a fantastic returner, clearly. He is undoubtedly going to make one thing on this league as a punt returner.”
The 5-foot-11 Wester is shortly making a reputation for himself within the NFL. He in some way made it to the sixth spherical of this 12 months’s draft regardless of having a profitable faculty profession that included 31 touchdowns, 10 of which got here throughout his solely season at Colorado.
Wester (who additionally caught a 30-yard go on Thursday evening) was additionally an achieved returner in faculty. Throughout his junior 12 months at Florida Atlantic, he led the American Convention in punt return yards and common yards per punt return. Final 12 months, he returned a punt 76 yards for a rating vs. Utah.
If Wester can proceed to make performs on particular groups, it will add one more dimension to a Ravens crew that’s already brimming with expertise.