Jay Lee didn’t have many responsibilities as a wide receiver in Baylor’s spread offense.
Plays were signaled in from the sideline. When they were designed to go to the opposite side of the field, his duties called for him to take a few steps and not run a full route. And blocking might as well have been optional on most plays.
So when Lee took a top-30 visit to the Lions before last week's NFL draft, the team wanted to test his recall and ability to play in a pro-style offense.
They gave him the plays they would be installing on the first day of rookie minicamp, had him walk through his routes with wide receivers coach Robert Prince and, a few hours later, after filling his head with meetings and interviews with various people, put him on the whiteboard to go through the plays again.