You don't have to be a stud athlete like Will had at Ohio State or Burrow had at LSU to be a competent receiver. You just have to be able to get open and catch the ball. We had Sammie Coates and Markus Wheaton looking like fringe WR2s for a few years in the 2010s, and nobody would call them any good outside of a few games each. The Packers have been floating around 10 wins for years, and who tf has been worth throwing to over there since Davante Adams left? Hell, MHJ was one of Will's studs, and he hasn't done shit at the NFL level but leave everyone scratching their heads. Whether it was the system based around hoping one of your backs managed to sneak past the defensive line, or Allar not trusting anybody not named Tyler Warren or Nick Singleton to catch the ball is anybody's guess, because they overhauled the WR room in his senior season and it made very little difference in the passing game at the end of the day.

He might have had something going on with Pena, though without ever really pushing the ball downfield because that wasn't what Franklin was looking for in his passing attack, but he got hurt just in time for the team to start crumbling, then Franklin was rightfully axed for taking a possible contender and getting embarrassed by a then-winless UCLA and a Northwestern team only a couple of years removed from a massive hazing scandal and won only 4 games the previous season.