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[Elvis]

WR30 Konata Mumpfield Pittsburgh, 4SR

HOMETOWN HIGH SCHOOL BIRTHDAY AGE HT WT NUM
Hoschton, GA Dacula Oct 24, 2002 22.50 5113 186 #9

BACKGROUND: Konata (Ko-nah-TAY) Mumpfield, the third of four children (three boys, one girl), was born in a military family in Fort Benning, Ga., with his parents (Ceeprian and Michelle). His father played football at NC State before joining the Army (retired after 21 years of service). Mumpfield grew up moving around to different military bases, including stops in Japan and Korea. He started playing sports at age 3 while his father was stationed in Japan, and he continued to play once his family returned to the States and settled in northern Georgia. He was a multisport athlete throughout childhood, primarily playing baseball, b sketball and football. Mumpfield started working with former NFL tight end Alge
Crumpler and competed in 7-on-7 with several area football stars, such as Josh Downs and Arik Gilbert. His younger sister (Maia) is a junior pitcher and infielder for the Georgia State softball team. Mumpfield attended Dacula High, where he was a multisport letterman. After playing on the freshman football team, he joined the varsity squad and played both ways (wide receiver and cornerback), helping lead the program to a conference title in 2017. As a junior, Mumpfield posted 35 catches for 554 yards and six touchdowns, which earned him first-team all-region honors. As a senior, he led Dacula to a 13-1 record — its lone loss came in the 6A state playoff quarterfinals. Mumpfield finished that season with 43 receptions for 820 yards (19.1 average) and 13 touchdowns, adding three interceptions and three punt return touchdowns. He again earned all-region honors and was named honorable mention all-county. Mumpfield also lettered on the Dacula basketball team for two seasons.
A three-star recruit, Mumpfield was the 204th-ranked athlete in the 2020 recruiting class and the No. 232 recruit in Georgia. He received his first scholarship offer at the start of his senior year from Division II Clark Atlanta. Two months later, on Halloween 2019, Akron gave Mumpfield his first FBS offer. He added other FCS offers from Alabama A&M, Austin Peay, Florida A&M, Mercer, Tennessee State and Western Carolina. He also received interest from other FBS programs, but most schools wanted him at cornerback — Mumpfield was adamant he would be a wide receiver in college. He committed to Akron as part of the 2020 class, but he grayshirted and officially became part of the 2021 class. After a productive freshman season, Mumpfield entered the transfer portal (Dec. 2021) and received offers from more than a dozen then-Power 5 programs, including Georgia Tech, Indiana, Kentucky, LSU, Louisville, Minnesota, Ole Miss, Utah and USC. He had a relationship with the Pitt coaches from his high school recruiting process, though, and signed with head coach Pat Narduzzi for his final three years of eligibility. Mumpfield opted out of Pittsburgh's 2024 bowl game and accepted his invitation to the East-West Shrine Bowl.

YEAR (GP/GS) REC YDS AVG TD DROP NOTES
2021: (12/12) 63 751 11.92 8 4 Akron; Freshman All-American; Second Team All-MAC; led team in receiving; enrolled
January 2021
2022: (12/9) 58 551 9.50 1 2 Pittsburgh; missed one game (injury); enrolled January 2022
2023: (12/12) 44 576 13.09 5 1 Pittsburgh; led team in catches
2024: (12/12) 52 813 15.63 5 4 Pittsburgh; Honorable Mention All-ACC; led team in receiving; missed bowl game (opt-out)
Total: (48/45) 217 2,691 12.40 19 11

HT WT HAND ARM WING 40-YD 20-YD 10-YD VJ BJ SS 3C BP NOTES

COMBINE 5113 186 8 1/2 29 3/8 74 3/8 4.59 2.67 1.62 36 10' 4" DNP DNP DNP No SS, three-cone or bench (right ankle
during pos. drills)

PRO DAY 5112 187 8 1/2 29 7/8 74 1/4 DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP 4.19 6.77 DNP

STRENGTHS:
● Competitive urgency in everything he does on the field
● Sudden in releases and has a few tricks in his bag to win off the ball
● Skilled at swiping corners to gain a vertical step and stack positioning
● Body fluidity shows, mid-route and at the catch point (wears No. 9 because that was Amari Cooper's number at Alabama)
● Subtle details of route running matter to him
● Tracks the football very well and stays focused, regardless of surroundings
● Wore the captain's "C" proudly in 2024 and grew up with a sense of discipline (his father served as a member of the military police in the
Army)

WEAKNESSES:
● Height, weight, arm length and hand size all fall below ideal NFL standards
● Average play strength and struggles at times fighting through mid-route contact
● Quicker than fast, and getting vertical against NFL speed will be a tougher challenge
● Does a better job eluding coverage before the catch than he does after it (average yards-after-catch skills)
● Guilty of making a few extra moves in his route plan, which disrupts cadence of the play
● Doesn't offer much experience on special teams

SUMMARY: A three-year starter at Pitt, Mumpfield was flexed across the formation in offensive coordinator Kade Bell's up-tempo, spread scheme (62.2 percent of snaps wide, 37.4 percent in the slot in 2024). From the day he joined Pitt's program, he found ways to be productive, regardless of quarterback play. Mumpfield can skillfully poke holes in coverage, and he constructs routes with pacing, purpose and salesmanship. He has well-developed
tracking/ball skills to make challenging catches, although he needs to develop more as a run-after-catch weapon. Overall, Mumpfield doesn't wow with size or vertical speed, but he is a route-running craftsman and finds open windows for his quarterback. His toughness and attention to detail should help separate him in training camp.

GRADE: 6th-7th round

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From Draft Buzz

Scouting Report: Strengths
He’s a fluid athlete with excellent short-area quickness; Mumpfield should be able to create separation, and he has the straight-line speed to threaten down the seam.
He’s also a catch-and-run threat, a creative runner who has good vision in the open field; he’ll be an option to return kicks as well.
Does not possess top breakaway speed, though he's rarely caught from behind.
Mumpfield has reliable hands and shows the willingness to make catches in traffic over the middle.
Balanced, savvy route runner with top field awareness, setting up and selling routes beautifully.
Often used on deep routes, getting separation down the sideline or over the middle on crossing routes by extending his arms rather than pure speed.

[Elvis]

[Dare]

Konata is the essence of what a possession WR is. Average metrics in height and speed, but elusive enough to get open and just fast enough to move the chains.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a good possession WR. I look at him as the WR equivalent of Kyren. Williams isn't a game breaker in terms of the level of threat he poses. But you would be foolish to sleep on him which many teams do. You can say the exact thing about Mumpfield.

Williams is a solid move the chains RB. Mumpfield is the WR equivalent. No flash just plain solid production. He's also the kind that can be valuable on STs.

This was an understated draft compared to 2023 and 2024. But I really like this draft. There are some real blue collar type of football players on it.

Landman, Speights, and Paul make ILB a strength on the defense. People can no longer look at the front 7 and see weakness at ILB

Verse, Young, Stewart and Jackson will give them a good rotation at edge as well.

With Hamilton and Ford they are solid at NT.

Turner and Fiske there is the rotation at 3T.

The Ram's front 7 is looking awesome and by the end of this season they probably will be one of the top front 7 units in the NFL.

[rams74]

Konata is the essence of what a possession WR is. Average metrics in height and speed, but elusive enough to get open and just fast enough to move the chains.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a good possession WR. I look at him as the WR equivalent of Kyren. Williams isn't a game breaker in terms of the level of threat he poses. But you would be foolish to sleep on him which many teams do. You can say the exact thing about Mumpfield.

Williams is a solid move the chains RB. Mumpfield is the WR equivalent. No flash just plain solid production. He's also the kind that can be valuable on STs.

High praise from somebody who hates Kyren Williams. I suppose you can't wait to get rid of Mumpfield, either.

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Not just random ESPN/media praise for the kid. Being a Pitt alum, I'm sure Riddick has seen a lot of this kid. I like what he says.

[ramsman34]

The Rams find players in the draft and UDFAS who will really compete which pushes everyone and, they are constantly creating intense competition for the bottom 1/3 of the roster. That is how you develop depth and increase the overall preparedness and focus of your entire roster.

[FMulder]

The Rams find players in the draft and UDFAS who will really compete which pushes everyone and, they are constantly creating intense competition for the bottom 1/3 of the roster. That is how you develop depth and increase the overall preparedness and focus of your entire roster.

This ^^^

Strengthening backup and bottom of the roster depth is key to be able to have success in the certainty of injuries during the season, and improvements over current players who are not playing to the level the Rams expect.