Legendary Clemson receiver Hunter Renfrow continues to impress as he makes his NFL comeback this year.

Carolina Panthers offensive coordinator Brad Idzik was the latest to praise Renfrow, who signed a one-year deal with the Panthers back in April.

Renfrow missed the entire 2024 season while dealing with health challenges stemming from a diagnosis of the autoimmune condition ulcerative colitis.

However, now healthy and back in action after a year away from the game, the 29-year-old veteran still possesses his savvy route-running skills and baffling ability to separate himself from opposing defenders.

“He just gets open. He just knows how to get open,” Idzik told reporters, via ESPN’s David Newton. “You might have bad leverage, he knows how to steal leverage. He’s got freaky lateral quickness. When he opens up, he’s like – big strides, powerful first four steps, which simulates, ‘I’m going full-tilt vertical.’”

Idzik, a former wide receivers coach with the Buccaneers and Seahawks – and a former wide receiver at Wake Forest – added that “if you give [Renfrow] five seconds, he’ll get open versus anyone.”

“Everything stems off the vertical. Has he run true go balls outside? That’s not really his craft, right,” Idzik said. “But he simulates that every single time, and then he eats up whatever leverage you give him. He just does a phenomenal job of it.”

Renfrow recorded 269 receptions for 2,884 yards and 17 touchdowns across his five seasons with the Raiders from 2019-23.

Renfrow recently missed several practices and the Panthers’ preseason opener while tending to a hamstring injury, but is now back practicing and appears to have picked up right where he left off before the injury: