Michael
Woods II.
Michael
Woods II.
Oklahoma· 6'1"· 204 lb· 4.55s 40
Woods is 6-foot-1 1/8 and 204 pounds with 33-inch arms, and he ran 4.37 with a 1.51 ten-yard split, a 35.5-inch vertical and a 10-foot-5 broad jump. Those numbers, at that size, are why a receiver with modest college production got drafted at all.
He is a long strider who eats cushion and wins vertically down the boundary, and Arkansas lined him up both outside and in the slot. The hands are dependable and he tracks the deep ball well over either shoulder. The route tree is where the doubts live: he builds speed rather than exploding out of breaks, so the sharp in-breaking stuff comes out rounded, and press corners who get hands on him early can reroute a frame that is not especially strong. He blocks willingly without much pop.
A vertical play-action offense that uses him on go balls and post routes off the boundary rather than asking him to win on option routes.
Year 1: WR5 and core special-teamer. Ceiling: rotational field-stretcher who plays 20 snaps and takes the top off.
A timing-based West Coast offense built on precise breaks at fifteen yards and contested catches in traffic.
His value lives beyond twenty yards; everything shorter is a work in progress.
Mike Woods | The Grind | Arkansas Star Receiver
His Arkansas tape, including the 619-yard junior season.
Mike Woods - WR - 2022 NFL Draft
Pre-draft cutup from the Oklahoma transfer year.
The Rise And Fall Of Mike Woods (From Arkansas Superstar To Injured At Oklahoma)
A retrospective on why the transfer season never matched the Arkansas production.
Woods grew up in Magnolia, Texas and caught 155 passes for 2,988 yards and 41 touchdowns in three varsity seasons at Magnolia High. He is the nephew of Dianne Durham, the first Black gymnast to win a USA all-around championship.
He signed with Arkansas and started seven games as a freshman in 2018, catching 18 passes for 206 yards and a touchdown. As a sophomore he started all twelve games and led the team with 33 catches and four touchdown grabs for 423 yards, playing 700 snaps by PFF's count with 556 of them out wide. The junior year in 2020 was his best: he started all ten games, caught 32 balls for a career-high 619 yards and five scores, matching his first two seasons' touchdown total in a single fall and finishing second on the team in every receiving category.
He transferred to Oklahoma in 2021 chasing a bigger offense and it did not work out — eleven games, 35 catches, 400 yards, two touchdowns in a season that got scrambled by quarterback changes. He finished college with 118 receptions for 1,648 yards and twelve scores. The combine workout did more for his stock than the senior tape did, and Cleveland took him 202nd.
- 01
Speed at size
4.37 in the forty at 6-foot-1 and 204 pounds, the vertical threat profile teams chase late in drafts.
- 02
Explosion testing
a 35.5-inch vertical and a 10-foot-5 broad jump back up the speed with real lower-body pop.
- 03
Deep-ball tracking
he locates the football over either shoulder downfield and adjusts to it without losing much stride.
- 04
Alignment flexibility
Arkansas used him wide and in the slot, and he logged 700 snaps in his sophomore season.
- 05
Reliable hands
he finished as his team's leading or second-leading receiver in three different college seasons.
- 01
Route precision
he builds speed into his breaks instead of snapping out of them, so intermediate routes come out rounded.
- 02
Release against press
physical corners can knock him off his path early because his frame is lean for the position.
- 03
Modest volume
118 catches across four college seasons is thin production for a receiver who was drafted on his traits.
- 04
Blocking impact
he shows willingness in the run game but not the strength to sustain a block against NFL corners.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.55sp50
- Vertical
- 34.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 125inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Rec | Yds | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Arkansas | — | 18 | 206 | 1 |
| 2019 | Arkansas | 12 | 33 | 423 | 4 |
| 2020 | Arkansas | 10 | 32 | 619 | 5 |
| 2021 | Oklahoma | 11 | 35 | 400 | 2 |
| Career | — | 33 | 118 | 1648 | 12 |
Receiving lines come from the official Arkansas biography for 2018 through 2020 and from Oklahoma's published 2021 totals. The biography gives seven starts as a freshman without a games-played number, and Oklahoma does not publish his 2021 starts, so both cells stay blank rather than being estimated, which also leaves the career games and starts blank. The four receiving seasons sum exactly to 118 catches, 1,648 yards and twelve touchdowns.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Another fast Browns late-rounder whose route craft never caught up to the timed speed.
Straight-line speed receiver who carves out a long career purely as a vertical clear-out.
Athletic small-sample receiver who bounces between practice squads without a role.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
The rookie year was quiet but real: five catches for 45 yards plus special-teams work. Then everything came apart. On April 4, 2023, Woods ruptured his Achilles during an independent workout with Deshaun Watson and went on the reserve/non-football injury list, losing the entire season. That December the league suspended him six games for violating the personal conduct policy.
He came back on the practice squad in 2024 after being waived at cutdown, earned a promotion to the active roster on December 7, and Cleveland waived him with an injury designation on July 30, 2025. Green Bay signed him to its practice squad that November and released him a month later. Denver signed him out of rookie minicamp in May 2026 and waived him injured in June after he got hurt during OTAs. Twelve career catches for 110 yards is the whole NFL ledger. Whatever the 4.37 promised, the Achilles and the injuries that followed never let it get answered.