RAS is way overrated when you just look at the USAToday colors as an indicator of success, other than to say more athletic people are usually better at athletics. 3 inches in vertical gives you almost double the score. 27/100ths of a second in the shuttle quadruples your score. and I am not even sure how 204 lbs can be considered a big negative for a WR.
Wide Receiver
Everyone's favorite group to pick the outliers from. Wide receiver has some very notable exceptions that people love to point to and explain how pointless measurements are. In fact, players with a RAS over 5.00 make the Pro Bowl just under twice as often as those with scores below average.
Still, it has the third-lowest correlation for offense, behind QB and OC. Despite that, the same number of players scored an 8.00 and above as scored below 5.00, 13 out of 37 receivers. This is a good time to point out that our highest scoring Pro Bowler, Calvin Johnson, also has the most impressive RAS out of the 5,400 players and counting in my database. Calvin's raw average (a behind-the-scenes number, just an average of all of the individual scores) was 9.68, almost a full point ahead of the next highest Pro Bowler, Andre Johnson, though you'd never know it looking at just their RAS where Calvin is 10.00 and Andre is 9.94. Players like Julio Jones (9.86) and Roddy White (9.07) played across from one another while Emmanuel Sanders (9.00) and Mike Wallace (8.79) were once a thing. Speaking of
Steelers receivers, Antonio Brown is one of our great outliers at only 1.28 out of 10. Joining him near the bottom are, in order, Randall Cobb (0.82), Brandon Lloyd (0.49), Wes Welker (0.47), Anquan Boldin (0.42), and Jarvis Landry at only 0.04 out of 10.
Here are a few good articles detailing the extreme imitations to these "scores."
RAS Offense
RAS defense