First-round rookie large receiver Zay Flowers has gotten off to a formidable begin heading into his first NFL season. The Boston Faculty playmaker has obtained reward from teammates, coaches, and media members in attendance at coaching camp, the newest being NBC Sports activities’ Peter King, who has attended 5 different NFL camps previous to Baltimore.

“Probably the most spectacular rookie I’ve seen in six camps is Zay Flowers,” King stated. “He strains up throughout from a nook and until they actually intervene with him or maintain him, he has great separation on nearly each lower. His quickness, his velocity out of cuts goes to be a factor to observe within the NFL this 12 months.”

Flowers’ quickness and talent to chop on a dime have been famous by others, together with quarterback Lamar Jackson. When talking to the media, Jackson revealed Flowers’ new nickname was “Joystick.”

The Athletic’s Jeff Zrebiec additionally acknowledged how spectacular Flowers has been in his camp observations.

“It will be exhausting to make a greater first impression than Flowers has made,” Zrebiec wrote. “In offensive conferences, he peppers coaches and teammates with questions. Within the weight room, he seems to be for tactics to do extra, not much less. And on the sphere, he’s made an instantaneous reference to Jackson.”

As has our personal Kyle Barber.

“To see what Flowers has achieved over the primary few practices has demonstrated nothing however the character we’ve heard about,” Barber wrote. “Placing him in essentially the most aggressive setting, one-on-ones and purple zone drills, introduced forth the vitality and him profitable nearly every rep was a testomony to him backing up the spirit along with his capacity.”

It’s too early to make any daring statements a couple of participant who has but to play in a dwell NFL sport, however all indicators are pointing upward for the Ravens’ first-round choose and there may be loads of cause to be enthusiastic about Baltimore’s new-look large receiver corps that features Flowers, Odell Beckham Jr., and Nelson Agholor to go alongside Rashod Bateman and Devin Duvernay.