Tyler Melton gets tryout with Falcons
Former Georgia Tech wide receiver Tyler Melton has his opportunity, albeit a slim one – a tryout spot at the Falcons’ rookie minicamp next weekend.
Melton confirmed the invite by text message Friday afternoon. He’ll take part in the workouts with the Falcons’ six draftees and 22 undrafted free agents. A tryout player is different than an undrafted rookie free agent. The latter has signed a deal with an NFL team, while a player coming in on a tryout works without a contract. At the mini-camp, which runs May 11-13 at the Falcons’ Flowery Branch complex, Melton’s competition will be three undrafted rookie free agent wide receivers – Marcus Jackson of Lamar, Cody Pearcy from Huntingdon (Ala.) and James Rodgers from Oregon State. The team did not draft any wide receivers.
Melton worked out for the Falcons prior to the draft along with a number of other local products, going through pass routes and then meeting with coaches. Prior to the draft, Melton said he thought he picked things up quickly, an opinion evidently shared by the Falcons.
Melton will try to follow the unlikely but ultimately successful route charted by former Tech wide receiver Kevin Cone, who was signed by the Falcons just prior to the 2011 training camp, then proceeded to make the practice squad and then the active roster late in the season.
Melton started 35 games for Tech in his career, including all 13 games as a senior. He caught 17 passes as a senior, including 10 in the final five games of the season. He was an excellent downfield blocker and also performed well on special teams.
Two years ago, the Falcons brought in six tryout players to their minicamp and kept two, quarterback Eric Ward from Southwest DeKalb High and cornerback Daylan Walker. Ward was cut one month later (he played in Canada last season and ended up throwing for Stephen Hill and Melton at Tech’s pro day). Walker was waived-injured in August.
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Ghost
May 6th, 2012
6:31 pm
George, Marlon hasn’t been Georgia’s go to guy , but he will get his chance this year . 2 years behind AJ and injuries last year.Marlon should’ve been red shirted. Is your leg healed ?
Jacket68
May 6th, 2012
7:01 pm
KEN – It’s like the movie Groundhog Day. Every time I come to read the latest Tech news, it’s the same as the day before. Meanwhile Chip and Michael are posting articles hourly.
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macrotech
May 7th, 2012
1:17 am
superDufis is representing those pups as well as can be expected…poorly! I don’t recall you giving me a smack down….EVER. Is your grammar getting better?! You seem to have graduated a hair beyond a grunt….congrats!
Jacket68
May 7th, 2012
7:08 am
Is today May 4th again? Same article.
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
9:14 am
Totally healed, Ghost.
It’s May, Jacket68. The only news now would be bad.
GTfan 2012
May 7th, 2012
10:29 am
Ghost,
Maybe Marlon Brown becomes a go to WR and maybe he doesn’t. But he was recruited the same year as SHill and he was much higher ranked. Stephen Hill just signed a $5 million contract to play WR in the NFL, and Marlon Brown is “hoping” that he can show his skills at UGA in his senior season to at least get a look by NFL teams. One WR plays in a pro style offense that is supposedly the best way for WR to get to the NFL (you know the route tree and all that), the other played in a triple option offense where he didn’t get a huge amount of passes thrown his way and didn’t run a complex route tree. Can you guess which is which?
how about a.....
May 7th, 2012
11:20 am
…new nickname for dwagfan? I suggest Drip-dry….why you ask? Well, it seems that after dwagfan goes pee-pee, he doesn’t have enough to shake it out, he can only stand there and let it drip dry…
dawgfan = Drip-dry
Thanks
dawgfan
May 7th, 2012
11:44 am
LOL @ this Stephen Hill v. Marlon Brown debate that Tech fans have completely conjured up out of absolutely nowhere. Good grief who cares. Marlon Brown is doing just fine Techies. Thanks for asking. This year he’ll be going for the 4-0 sweep of the Joke By Coke that so many UGA football players have grown accustomed to over the years. Instead of spending all of your time worrying about how UGA develops its players, maybe you should spend a little more time worrying about how your joke football program is going to beat those players. We don’t need your help. Thanks anyway though.
Georgia Tech=JOKE.
GTBob
May 7th, 2012
11:50 am
This year he’ll be going for the 4-0 sweep of the Joke By Coke that so many UGA football players have grown accustomed to over the years.
Marlon Brown has yet to catch a pass against Georgia Tech in his career. I would say at best he will watch the other players on the team go for the 4-0 sweep while he tries his best to get in the game.
GT Lee
May 7th, 2012
11:52 am
Thanks for your totally worthless and meaningless input, Drip-dry….shouldn’t you be inspecting CMR’s poo right about now?
dwagfan = Drip-dry,
Thanks
FL Jacket
May 7th, 2012
12:16 pm
“This year he’ll be going for the 4-0 sweep of the Joke By Coke that so many UGA football players have grown accustomed to over the years. Instead of spending all of your time worrying about how UGA develops its players, maybe you should spend a little more time worrying about how your joke football program is going to beat those players. We don’t need your help. Thanks anyway though.”
dwagfan…you make me do this everytime
If you honestly think that a 1-10 record head-to-head is the true yardstick of the quality of the football program…good luck sir. I don’t think uGA’s football program is that inferior to Florida’s despite ONLY WINNING 4 GAMES SINCE THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION. But then again, I’m sure you’ll probably say that’s nothing but luck.
But hey, keep pounding your chest about THE ONLY THING a uGA fan can pund their chests about.
HighTech
May 7th, 2012
12:18 pm
You should check out WnE defending UGA’s honor against Alabama fans on Carvell’s blog. It is hilarious, especially the name-calling.
http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2012/05/07/nick-saban-on-georgia-recruiting-success-well-i-still-have-a-home-in-georgia/
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
12:38 pm
That’s terrific, HighTech.
This year he’ll be going for the 4-0 sweep of the Joke By Coke that so many UGA football players have grown accustomed to over the years.
Judging a player in a team sport on his record is the silliest way possible to measure him. It becomes doubly silly when that player barely steps on the field.
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
12:39 pm
Not sure if y’all caught this, but yet again, an independent source thinks awfully of Kung Fu Panda. Funny how that works.
http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-05-01/college-football-coach-rankings-acc-conference-frank-beamer-paul-johnson-dabo-sw
Jmonty
May 7th, 2012
12:39 pm
Good luck Tyler. The Falcons really could use a good #4 WR. Maybe a #3. Finneran does’t have a good track record of staying healty. But, it’s a proven fact most NFL teams don’t have enough good DB’s to cover a 4 WR set. So, I am all for the Falcons trying. Just hope Tyler puts on a good show. He has a slim chance… But, it’s better than no chance. That’s all most people want in life is a chance to show what they can do. Submitted respectfully without the use of mud to sling.
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
12:40 pm
*highly
Delbert D.
May 7th, 2012
12:41 pm
Carvell has had some strange blogs lately. He seems to be fixated on inciting hate against Saban and Meyer, the two coaches who have had the most success in the SEC over the last several years.
Delbert D.
May 7th, 2012
12:43 pm
Something happened to Brian Finneran’s voice?
WnE
May 7th, 2012
12:49 pm
GTfan 2012
May 7th, 2012
10:29 am
Ghost,
Maybe Marlon Brown becomes a go to WR and maybe he doesn’t. But he was recruited the same year as SHill and he was much higher ranked. Stephen Hill just signed a $5 million contract to play WR in the NFL, and Marlon Brown is “hoping” that he can show his skills at UGA in his senior season to at least get a look by NFL teams. One WR plays in a pro style offense that is supposedly the best way for WR to get to the NFL (you know the route tree and all that), the other played in a triple option offense where he didn’t get a huge amount of passes thrown his way and didn’t run a complex route tree. Can you guess which is which?
___________
The devil is in the details.
You seem to have left out that UGA had a 2nd round WR (Massaquoi) that was much smaller than Hill and a little slower than Hill.
Try to project where Hill or even Bay-Bay might have been drafted had they had the same size-speed combo as Massaquoi had, I doubt it would have been the 2nd round.
You guys are BRAGGING that S. Hill was the #7 WR off the board when the FACT IS, is that he was the #1 Physical specimen at his position.
Can you really say that CPJ’s system is so good for WRs when he took the #1 physical specimen at a position and then helped him to become the NUMBER SEVEN guy drafted at his position?
CMR took 2 guys that weren’t the best physical specimens out there at WR and helped them get drafted in the 2nd round & 4th round and the guys coming up behind, Malcolm Mitchell, Chris Conley, Michael Bennett show that that HC has some good continuity in the way he develops players.
Hill was big drop-off from Bay-Bay, but Malcolm Mitchell & Chris Conley are showing promise that they will live up to AJ Green.
Despite his 2nd round draft slot, Hill and the other WRs have been a huge drop-off from Bay-Bay and CPJ doesn’t seem to have re-stocked that position.
49 catches in 3 yrs. is not re-stocking the pipeline at WR after Bay-Bay.
WnE
May 7th, 2012
12:49 pm
GTfan 2012
May 7th, 2012
10:29 am
Ghost,
Maybe Marlon Brown becomes a go to WR and maybe he doesn’t. But he was recruited the same year as SHill and he was much higher ranked. Stephen Hill just signed a $5 million contract to play WR in the NFL, and Marlon Brown is “hoping” that he can show his skills at UGA in his senior season to at least get a look by NFL teams. One WR plays in a pro style offense that is supposedly the best way for WR to get to the NFL (you know the route tree and all that), the other played in a triple option offense where he didn’t get a huge amount of passes thrown his way and didn’t run a complex route tree. Can you guess which is which?
___________
The devil is in the details.
You seem to have left out that UGA had a 2nd round WR (Massaquoi) that was much smaller than Hill and a little slower than Hill.
Try to project where Hill or even Bay-Bay might have been drafted had they had the same size-speed combo as Massaquoi had, I doubt it would have been the 2nd round.
You guys are BRAGGING that S. Hill was the #7 WR off the board when the FACT IS, is that he was the #1 Physical specimen at his position.
Can you really say that CPJ’s system is so good for WRs when he took the #1 physical specimen at a position and then helped him to become the NUMBER SEVEN guy drafted at his position?
CMR took 2 guys that weren’t the best physical specimens out there at WR and helped them get drafted in the 2nd round & 4th round and the guys coming up behind, Malcolm Mitchell, Chris Conley, Michael Bennett show that that HC has some good continuity in the way he develops players.
Hill was big drop-off from Bay-Bay, but Malcolm Mitchell & Chris Conley are showing promise that they will live up to AJ Green.
Despite his 2nd round draft slot, Hill and the other WRs have been a huge drop-off from Bay-Bay and CPJ doesn’t seem to have re-stocked that position.
49 catches in 3 yrs. is not re-stocking the pipeline at WR after Bay-Bay.
HighTech
May 7th, 2012
12:52 pm
That was an interesting article, George Stein. Looking forward to seeing #1 vs #2 on Labor Day.
HighTech
May 7th, 2012
12:53 pm
I thought Stephen Hill would have been the #8 option at UGA? What?
WnE
May 7th, 2012
12:59 pm
re:
HighTech
May 7th, 2012
12:18 pm
You should check out WnE defending UGA’s honor against Alabama fans on Carvell’s blog. It is hilarious, especially the name-calling.
____________
You follow me around as if I am the high light of your day.
BTW that is a Recruiting blog that Carvell runs not a UGA blog.
Also, I have always made consistent comments about over-signing and any other topic when the players get treated poorly.
Are you a real GT fan?
Or, are you a pissant wuss that lives vicariously through other FB programs that can beat UGA?
Real GT Fans hate Bama damn near as much as they hate UGA because Bama has cheated much worse than UGA or any CFB program in history.
To interpret my comments as defending UGA is way off, I simply hate everything about Bama and over-signing and schools that CHEAT and the way that the NCAA looks the other way if you have great TV ratings and can generate a lot of money for the NCAA.
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
1:00 pm
MoMass is 6′2, 207, and feels like training at Tech is better for him than training at UGA.
http://www.nfl.com/player/mohamedmassaquoi/80664/profile
WnE
May 7th, 2012
1:01 pm
If CPJ had Malcolm Mitchell and S. Hill on GT’s roster last season, which player would YOU rather have as a our #1 WR?
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
1:02 pm
Real GT Fans hate Bama damn near as much as they hate UGA because Bama has cheated much worse than UGA or any CFB program in history.
Do you have any objective proof of this?
dawgfan
May 7th, 2012
1:02 pm
“Judging a player in a team sport on his record is the silliest way possible to measure him. It becomes doubly silly when that player barely steps on the field.”
I’m not judging players. You took a swipe at UGA and I took a swipe back. I think its pretty silly to criticize players who have never lost to the joke football program that you root for, but that’s just me.
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
1:02 pm
If CPJ had Malcolm Mitchell and S. Hill on GT’s roster last season, which player would YOU rather have as a our #1 WR?
Stephen Hill.
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
1:04 pm
I didn’t take a swipe at UGA, dawgfan. I made light of the fact that we hear all the time about how playing in a pro set (which UGA doesn’t run) is the best way of getting to the League, except that’s not necessarily the case.
WnE
May 7th, 2012
1:08 pm
re:
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
1:00 pm
MoMass is 6′2, 207, and feels like training at Tech is better for him than training at UGA.
http://www.nfl.com/player/mohamedmassaquoi/80664/profile
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If you would have used that link properly and clicked on the combine tab under Massaquoi’s name you would have seen that he ran a 4.66 at his Combine.
So a CMR-coached WR can be 6-2 and run a 4.66 at the combine and get drafted in the same round as a CPJ-coached WR that is 6-4 and runs a 4.32 or 4.36.
How can that be, that 6-4 guys that runs the 4.36 must be MISSING SOMETHING, maybe the 6-2 guys that runs a 4.66 must have some technical expertise that the big fast WR didn’t have coming out of GT, for both of them to get drafted in the 2nd round.
dawgfan
May 7th, 2012
1:09 pm
“If you honestly think that a 1-10 record head-to-head is the true yardstick of the quality of the football program…good luck sir.”
I am well aware of that fact that games in which Georgia Tech loses carry very little weight with Georgia Tech fans. Tell me something I don’t know.
“I don’t think uGA’s football program is that inferior to Florida’s despite ONLY WINNING 4 GAMES SINCE THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION.”
I don’t think I care what you think about UGA’s football program.
“But then again, I’m sure you’ll probably say that’s nothing but luck.”
No, what I will say is that I don’t owe you any explanation on our record against Florida. We could lose 50 straight against them and it has absolutely nothing to do with the pile of excrement that you call a football program down on North Avenue.
Thanks.
FL Jacket
May 7th, 2012
1:09 pm
“I think its pretty silly to criticize players who have never lost to the joke football program that you root for, but that’s just me.”
dwagfan…
Calvin Johnson never beat uGA…CHECK MATE
GTBob
May 7th, 2012
1:11 pm
You seem to have left out that UGA had a 2nd round WR (Massaquoi) that was much smaller than Hill and a little slower than Hill.
Massaquoi was a 4 star receiver, that was rated the 4th best wide receiver in his class. Stephen Hill was a 3 star, rated 99th in his class. Hill was drafted higher.
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
1:13 pm
How can that be, that 6-4 guys that runs the 4.36 must be MISSING SOMETHING, maybe the 6-2 guys that runs a 4.66 must have some technical expertise that the big fast WR didn’t have coming out of GT, for both of them to get drafted in the 2nd round.
It could be a million different things, WnE. That’s always been the point. But since you have everything figured out, perhaps you should jump into coaching. You could probably use all that “experience” you were pimping to Days’ mom to get a job.
dawgfan
May 7th, 2012
1:14 pm
“Calvin Johnson never beat uGA…CHECK MATE”
What in the crap are you talking about?
FL Jacket
May 7th, 2012
1:15 pm
“No, what I will say is that I don’t owe you any explanation on our record against Florida. We could lose 50 straight against them and it has absolutely nothing to do with the pile of excrement that you call a football program down on North Avenue.”
LOL @ dwagfan…
If having 4 NCs (compared to 1)…including one a full decade MORE RECENTLY than uGA has considered a pile of excrement…what would uGA be considered???
Dwagfan, sooner or later Georgia is going to have to start carrying some weight for the SEC instead of pound their collective chests about SEC supremacy AS IF THEY HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT…
HighTech
May 7th, 2012
1:16 pm
WnE…I am a pissant wuss. lol. Would you like to meet sometime to discuss further and verify?
Your hatred of Alabama is weak compared to your hatred of CPJ and Georgia Tech.
“BTW that is a Recruiting blog that Carvell runs not a UGA blog.”
I didn’t say it was a UGA blog. Do you have trouble with reading comprehension?
“You follow me around as if I am the high light of your day.”
No need to follow you. You are on these blogs 24/7. Do you have a job?
What I don’t understand is how someone can claim to be a fan of a program and an alumnus while actively recruiting against that program just because he doesn’t care for the coach. You are an enigma wrapped in dawg sh!t.
WnE
May 7th, 2012
1:17 pm
re:
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
1:02 pm
If CPJ had Malcolm Mitchell and S. Hill on GT’s roster last season, which player would YOU rather have as a our #1 WR?
Stephen Hill.
_________
Now everyone knows that you don’t know a damn thing about CFB.
The NY Jets taking a flyer on Hill doesn’t lessen his lack of productivity on the college level.
Against our 9 toughest opponents last yr. Hill averaged about 1.6 catches per game.
In the last 10-games last season Hill had 19 catches, and 2 of those games were vs. 2-10 Md. & 3-9 Dook.
When he went up against the NFL CB from UVa. (Minnefield) he had 0 catches for 0 yards, then he followed it up vs Miami with 1 catch for 9 yards.
Hill was very pedestrian for GT last season, I’m glad he was able to cash in and get some good money from an NFL team.
FL Jacket
May 7th, 2012
1:18 pm
“Calvin Johnson never beat uGA…CHECK MATE”
What in the crap are you talking about?”
Oh dwagfan…it’s simple. I don’t want to hear about criticizing/not criticizing ANY player for whom THEIR TEAM beats/doesn’t beat. If Calvin Johnson never won against uGA…I can guarantee you it’s not because he’s any more/less of a football player.
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
1:19 pm
The NY Jets taking a flyer on Hill doesn’t lessen his lack of productivity on the college level.
You don’t take fliers in the second round; you take guys that have a good chance to be starting players. By all means, though, keep talking about Hill’s collegiate statistics as though they are relevant.
There’s certainly a person here who doesn’t know jack about football. That person is not me.
FL Jacket
May 7th, 2012
1:19 pm
“The NY Jets taking a flyer on Hill doesn’t lessen his lack of productivity on the college level.”
NFL teams don’t take “flyers” in the early portion of the 2nd round. Who’s the one who doesn’t know anything?
FL Jacket
May 7th, 2012
1:20 pm
GS…I swear we might have been twins separated at birth!
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
1:20 pm
You are an enigma wrapped in dawg sh!t.
This was perfect. It’s the mythology of Wrecks!
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
1:21 pm
Ha! Or it could be that we’re relatively informed fans, FLJ.
George Stein
May 7th, 2012
1:21 pm
Ha! Or it could be that we’re relatively informed fans, FLJ.
dawgfan
May 7th, 2012
1:22 pm
“Dwagfan, sooner or later Georgia is going to have to start carrying some weight for the SEC instead of pound their collective chests about SEC supremacy AS IF THEY HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT…”
And I guess your pizz ant half azzed program had something to do with all of our losses against Florida?!?!?!? I guess the pile of crap football program that you root for had something to do with our loss to LSU last year?!?!?!? You Techies are the biggest hypocrites on the planet. You can run your fat mouths about all of our losses to SEC teams but we can’t talk about the strength of the SEC?!?!?!? You can sit there an pop off at your fat Techie mouth about how we can’t beat Florida but we can’t talk about how Florida was one of the best programs in the nation and wins national titels?!?!?!? Could you be a bigger freaking joke if you tried dude?
Georgia Tech football fans=An absolute laughing stock.
CHECK MATE.
FL Jacket
May 7th, 2012
1:24 pm
GS…WnE is certainly expecting for CPJ to be the first CFB in history to have EVERY SINGLE PLAYER who’s eligible to be drafted taken in the NFL draft. I mean, he certainly seems to claim it’s CPJ’s when they dont get drafted…
GTBob
May 7th, 2012
1:25 pm
NFL teams don’t take “flyers” in the early portion of the 2nd round. Who’s the one who doesn’t know anything?
Not only that, but they apparently traded up to take a flyer on him, and gave him 5 million flyer dollars. That was nice of them.
Delbert D.
May 7th, 2012
1:26 pm
On a lighter topic, I bagged another one for my “Worst Posts” list this morning:
“I would want to see if Alabama’s coaching staff stays in tack.”
HighTech
May 7th, 2012
1:26 pm
Stephen HIll has 5 million frequent flyer points with the Jets.