The Facts: Austin, the eighth overall pick in the 2013 draft, has for the most part underachieved during his time in the NFL, despite securing a contract extension a year ago. Now, a new coaching staff has arrived, Austin has been absent after wrist surgery, and plenty of new receivers have been added. So what does it mean for Austin? "I think we have ideas of the way that we want to utilize him," HC Sean McVay told reporters on Wednesday.

Diehards Line: For now, McVay and company haven’t been able to study Austin because he hasn’t been able to practice, due to the wrist surgery. ... Austin has never had 1,000 yards from scrimmage at the NFL level, and his career high as a receiver came in 2016, with 509 yards. Former coach Jeff Fisher’s staff used Austin in ways similar to his deployment at West Virginia, where it was simple enough to put him in space against defenders who couldn’t catch him. At the next level, they can — and so it will take more than bubble screens and jet sweeps to get the kind of production to justify not only the top-10 selection but the four-year, $42 million contract that the Rams gave Austin last year. With Greg Robinson being dumped by the Rams onto the tackle-needy Lions this morning, PFT's Mike Florio suggests it’s hard not to wonder what it would take to get Austin away from L.A. — and whether any teams out there think they can get more out of him than the Rams have.