He hauled in only one touchdown pass, didn’t make a catch after late September and spent the balance of the season using his sure hands to guide the scooter that let him navigate UCLA’s campus on a broken foot.
Pro Football Focus, the analytics site that grades every snap a player takes, rated the tight end as not just the best college player at his position last season but the top returning player from any Power Five conference school heading into 2018.
Wilson acknowledged that the lofty rating is largely the result of a small sample size.