Wide Receiver
2nd Round
Memphis
Gray has the speed (4.4 in the 40) to catch long passes and the size (6-3, 195) to catch passes over the middle. As a senior, he had a 94-yard TD reception, setting the Memphis record, and caught 35 passes for 690 yards, a 19.7 average. Gray played in East-West Shrine and Senior Bowl games after his senior year and made the All-South Independent first team, as well as All-American honorable mention from the Associated Press and Sporting News.
As a junior he broke a 27-year-old NCAA record with 29.5 average yards per catch on 28 receptions for 826 yards. He was first-team All South, as well as an AP and Football News All-American.
For his career at Memphis, Gray had 97 receptions for 2,123 yards for a 21.9 average yards per catch, with 17 touchdown catches, and is the only Memphis receiver with 2,000 career yards.