Miami Football: What You Need to Know About Hurricanes' WR Depth for 2012

If there is one pretty big question mark regarding the Miami Hurricanes this year, it will be replacing Tommy Streeter and Travis Benjamin at the wide receiver position.  In fact, it's the entire depth at wideout that may be concerning.

The current group has only caught 54 combined catches with a majority of them (31) coming from one player.

To put that in perspective, last season's top Hurricane receivers (Streeter and Benjamin) caught 87 passes.

Not only are they inexperienced, but they are young as well.  The current roster contains one senior, three juniors, four sophomores and three freshmen.

Miami's most experienced receiver is junior Allen Hurns.  Hurns had a tremendous sophomore campaign catching 31 passes for 415 yards and four touchdowns.  He has terrific field vision with pretty good speed.

If there is one knock on his performance last year it's that he dropped way too many passes towards the end of the season.

Two other receivers, Rashawn Scott and Phillip Dorsett, will be the other two main receivers for the Hurricanes this year.

Scott is most likely going to be used as a deep threat, as he is one of the biggest receivers on the team, standing 6'2" and weighing in at 200 pounds.  He also has great speed and is a terrific playmaker, as shown this spring when he caught multiple deep passes.

Dorsett, I honestly believe, will be the Hurricanes' best receiver this year.  Although he only caught 14 passes last year, he is the team's fastest player.  He has great hands and is almost unstoppable when he gets into open space.

Dorsett had a strong spring season at both receiver and returner.

After the above-mentioned players, it gets pretty questionable.  The remaining eight receivers have caught a total of eight passes in their college careers, and those were all caught by senior Kendal Thompkins.

Thompkins will probably be the next player to come off the bench but has much to improve.  After being a highly recruited player out of Miami Northwestern, he has found himself deeper and deeper down the depth chart.

The rest of the Hurricanes' depth at wide receiver are virtual unknowns, as they either are true freshmen or only participated on the scout team. I don't see any of them jumping the above-mentioned players on the depth chart.

There was one true freshman, Angelo Jean-Louis, who had the skills to compete for a starting position, but he was unable to qualify for Miami and will now be attending prep school, according to the Palm Beach Post.

It's too bad, because the Hurricanes could have used one more highly athletic receiver to add to a fairly shallow depth chart.