49ers rookie wide receiver Danny Gray is fast. His 4.33 40-yard dash at the NFL combine matches what shows on tape. There aren’t many players on the field that are going to track him down if he’s given even a sliver of space. That speed should help the 49ers right away, but. Gray’s college coach at Southern Methodist, Sonny Dykes, believes he hasn’t even come into his own yet as a wide receiver. That’s good news for San Francisco.
Dykes told the Athletic’s Matt Barrows in a terrific story about Gray’s upbringing that the receiver’s alternate path through school left him short of some development in college.
“We only had him for two years at SMU and he’s just scratching the surface,” Dykes told Barrows. “He can become a much better player than he was for us.”
