Our Current status at the WR position

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Originally Posted by Mattyk

A WR that finished 3rd overall in catches and 10th in yardage, was only slightly better than our 31st ranked D? I know it's hard to compare one guy to an entire unit, but I'm still struggling to make sense of that logic.

You said it yourself: 3rd in catches, 10th in yardage.

Better than say, 3rd in catches, 20th in yardage.

Worse than 3rd in catches, 6th in yardage.

I don't want to just throw out a yards per target figure, because it's apples and oranges. Moss used to be let loose deep more frequently, and used to average around 9 ish yards per target. This year, he was around seven and a half. That's predominantly a change in role.

It's also not very good. Percy Harvin got 8 YPT this year in pretty much the same role. Lance Moore got about 8.1 YPT. Mike Thomas was in the same range. Ditto Anquan Boldin. I'm stretching the definition of a similar receiver, but Moss did a new role and did not do it all that well. And we didn't move the ball as an offense and score consistently.

So we took away some of Santana Moss' deep running because this role is more important for the offense. He's doing the role...well, I think we can agree he didn't do great. I also realize you can't replace him with Terrence Austin and get the same production, but I'm not suggesting that we just go and do that.