The Nation's #1 Receiver?

Santa Fe Springs, Calif. - Robert Woods led his Serra team to the Championship at Santa Fe's 7v7 Passing League on Saturday. Playing both ways for double digit games, Woods showed he was not only talented, but gritty as well.

There were 40 teams at Santa Fe's 7v7 passing league on Saturday, and Robert Woods helped lead his Serra team to the Championship after a grueling eight hours of playing iron man football. Woods started at wide receiver and safety and played virtually every snap. An entire spring of running track certainly helped his conditioning as he ran deep route after deep route on Saturday in the 90 degree sun.

Woods certainly wasn't alone on a loaded Serra team that includes 4 Star receiver Paul Richardson and super 2011 prospect George Farmer, but he showed why he already ranked the No. 4 receiver in the entire country, and could quite certainly rise even higher before the season ends.

Woods is the type of athlete that makes everything look easy. He doesn't look like he's running that hard, but he's gliding by everyone. He doesn't adjusts well to the ball in the air and makes hard catches look easy. He has soft, but strong hands that can catch a pass over the shoulder, or snag a pass out of mid-air that's thrown on a rope.

He's confident without being cocky. On one play, he was jogging out to his outside receiver spot and saw the corner already at the line of scrimmage. "Going to play a little bump, huh?", asked Woods rhetorically. The outmatched corner said he was. At the snap of the ball, Woods was past his corner without so much as a fingertip being lain on him.

Woods has straight line speed as evidenced by his track prowess, but it's his ability to accelerate out of his cuts and keep top speed at different angles that make him so hard for defensive backs to stay close with him.

Quite simply, he's the best receiver I've seen in the Class of 2010.

Take a look at Woods in this media gallery that includes photos and video from the weekend at Santa Fe High School.