04-13-2021, 11:44 AM
Has anyone ever noticed that NFL teams draft players called cornerbacks, and they usually want them to be pretty fast and be able to stay with a receiver? And believe it or not, sometimes a team plays more or less zone coverage, giving WRs much more room to operate in space...
The point is, it's a statistic that too open to many variables that will skew the results. WRs don't have the same short area quickness, they don't have the same accleration out of breaks, they don't run routes the same, they're not the same with contested catches, their feet and hands are different (athletic-wise). Stats have variables. A stat like "separation" has too many variables to make it anything to hang your hat on.
It's something to look at and rank players with but it's not anything that correlates to whether a WR is good or bad.
The point is, it's a statistic that too open to many variables that will skew the results. WRs don't have the same short area quickness, they don't have the same accleration out of breaks, they don't run routes the same, they're not the same with contested catches, their feet and hands are different (athletic-wise). Stats have variables. A stat like "separation" has too many variables to make it anything to hang your hat on.
It's something to look at and rank players with but it's not anything that correlates to whether a WR is good or bad.
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