How good can Tee Higgins be?

[Shake n Blake]

(04-22-2021, 01:39 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: There's a lot of in and out cutting routes and a lot of hook routes. Those are a death knell for separation. That's why it's a useless stat. 

People can be my guest and study it all they want but they better check the types of routes that are run to see how it applies to each individual player. 

If Bengals receivers were running a lot of 7s, 8s and 9s and weren't getting enough space from the defender to be effective, then it's a problem but the Bengals don't run all that many of those routes. 

Great point. I watched Higgins' highlights earlier and noticed (A) the announcers exclaiming how "wide open" he was numerous times and (B) when Higgins had a defender draped all over him, it was usually a hook route where he boxed out the corner, but obviously got 0 "separation".

https://youtu.be/H5SOKucpgL8