It is no loner a secret just how good West Virginia native, Wyatt Milum, is at the game of football. Week in and week out Milum consistently grades as one of the highest offensive linemen in the country, according to PFF. But when asked about assessing his own work, the All-American hopeful says he still has a lot to work on.
“I feel like I still have some improvements to make. I feel like my pass pro hasn’t been as consistent as I want to using my hands and stuff like that. That’s one thing I need to work on a lot.”
While every player is going to be able to give you some things they always could do better, the season that Milum has been having is one that is putting him the first round of a lot of NFL Mock Drafts for the upcoming season. Milum accredits a lot of that success to his ability to learn how to watch film and be great at reading what the defense is showing him.
“I would just say my IQ like learning the game of football more. Like just seeing you can just pick up tendencies with more film studying and learning what the defense is going to do. It just makes the game a lot easier when you get out there on the field.”
There was never too much doubt that Milum was going to be a good football player coming out of high school in 2021. Milum, a four-star, was the number one recruit in West Virginia according to 247 Sports and the 15th ranked offensive tackle in the nation.
Despite having all that skill and potential, the Huntington, WV native still had a lot to learn once he got to college to adjust to the next level. Milum brought up having to be more technically sound when facing better players at WVU as part of the reason he has taken the step he has since high school.
“Technique. You have use use technique because in high school you don’t have to use the best technique to win. In college, you have to sue good technique because there’s great players in this league. And then film study. You have to pick up the defense’s tendencies and just know what kind of blitzes they bring.”
Having Milum being an early round selection in the upcoming NFL Draft would be the second straight year that Neal Brown would be able to take a local WV kid and turn them into an NFL talent. Milum could join former teammate Zach Frazier who grew up in Fairmont, WV before enrolling at WVU and being drafted in the second round to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
There is still a lot of football to be played for Milum and the Mountaineers but one thing remains as certain as it did to start the season. That is that West Virginia kid from Huntington, Wyatt Milum, is bound to continue to make quite the name for himself.
