KeAndre Lambert-Smith, WR, Auburn
Size:
Height: 6006
Weight: 190
Arm: 32 ⅝”
Hand: 9 ⅛”
Accomplishments:
Second-Team All-SEC (2024)
“KeAndre Lambert-Smith is an explosive downfield receiver who flashes nuance in his routes to attack blind spots and create space for himself.”
Strengths:
Speed
Zone/space feel
Burst
Attacks blind spots
Concerns:
Route tree
Press/physical coverage
Leggy transitions
Film Analysis:
KeAndre Lambert-Smith served as a three-year letterman at Maury High School. He acted as a two-time team captain and played a vital role in leading the Commodores to an impressive 16-0 season, securing their first state championship in 80 years with a win in the Virginia High School League (VHSL) Class 5 title game during his senior year. He earned a four-star recruit ranking on his way to commit to Penn State University for the 2020 season. He played five seasons at Penn State, playing in 39 games for the Nittany Lions, gaining 1,598 receiving yards on 116 career receptions with 11 touchdowns before transferring to Auburn for his final collegiate season. He put up 981 yards on 50 catches while adding eight touchdowns for the Tigers and having the best season of his career.
Seeing most of his time as an outside receiver, Lambert-Smith has a prototypical Z-receiver frame at 6-foot-1 and 190 pounds, with room to add more muscle if he chooses. He’s a quick player off the line of scrimmage, but developing and fine-tuning more releases into his routine will open up access to more routes and separation. He eats up space quickly in his stem, sells vertically well, and can gear down on curls to send defenders upfield while he works back to the football. Physicality through the route stem can throw off his timing, but he’s willing to work through contact to get to his route. He ran a limited tree at Auburn, but the physical tools to run a full tree are there with Lambert-Smith, and he shows a good understanding of how to sit down in zone and find soft spots.
His transitions can be leggy to the top of routes, but he can decelerate cleanly and break to the middle of the field. Improving his hand usage through the stem and at the top of the route will also aid in more separation. While he has body catches on his tape, he’s got a great catch radius and ball skills to make contested catches downfield and through contact. He’s a good athlete with the ball tracking to find the football over his shoulder and make adjustments at all levels of the field.
He’s better with the ball in his hands than you'd think based on how Auburn used him, with a good understanding of space, twitch, and burst to exploit defenses. With speed to burn, Lambert-Smith possesses a good all-around skill set, but needs development in multiple phases to reach his upside.
Prospect Projection: Day 3 — Developmental Traits
Written By: Daniel Harms
Exposures: Oklahoma (2024), Arkansas (2024), Alabama (2024), Georgia (2024)
