NFL teams have been looking to replicate the success San Francisco demonstrated with their dual-threat wideout and could look to do so in this year's draft.
Pro Football Focus recently identified several upcoming prospects as the best YAC receivers in the 2021 NFL Draft. Equivalently, ESPN football analyst Mel Kiper Jr. highlighted several of the same upcoming prospects with skill sets parallel to those of Samuel's: Florida's Kadarius Toney, Purdue's Rondale Moore, Clemons's Amari Rodgers and Oklahoma State's Tylan Wallace.
"Deebo's kind of a unique talent because he'll just take guys and bulldoze you," Kiper Jr. said. "I do think Deebo was almost like a big running back playing wide receiver. He was that versatile guy like (Washington Football Team running back) Antonio Gibson that came out of Memphis. So, those are guys that give you a little bit more of a dimension than most of these guys coming out this year will give you."