Jaquaize Pettaway WR East Carolina |
NFL Draft Profile & Scouting Report

Scouting Report: Weaknesses

• Almost no production, 14 catches for 33 yards in 2025
• Extremely low average depth of target, wins nothing downfield
• Slight frame that offers limited contested ability downfield
• Buried or ineffective at each of three college stops
• No track record of meaningful receiving output anywhere

Scouting Report: Summary

Jaquaize Pettaway is a pedigree flyer whose production has never arrived. Once a top-50 recruit, the quick slot has the release to uncover against inside leverage, and the recruiting billing suggests tools worth developing. That promise is essentially the whole case.

The tape is difficult. He caught 14 passes for just 33 yards at East Carolina in 2025, an extremely low average depth that shows a player winning nothing downfield, and his slight frame offers little in contested situations. Across three college stops he has been either buried or ineffective, leaving no track record of meaningful receiving output to project from.

He fits a spread offense that could develop him as a depth slot and gunner while the game comes along. Overall, the quickness and pedigree keep him on the fringe of the conversation, but Pettaway projects as a practice-squad-type receiver whose draft case rests almost entirely on the recruiting profile and the hope that a new setting unlocks something his college production never showed. Realistically the path runs through special teams and a practice squad, where the quickness and return potential can keep him around while a staff tries to coax out the player the rankings once saw. Without a leap in production, the receiver role is hard to project at all.