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(04-28-2021, 11:43 AM)Au165 Wrote: Waller was on drugs and was wasting away in Baltimore for two years before coming to Oakland and getting clean, so it's not really a fair comparison there. As for Kelce, his 2nd year 9.9 per target was the best of his entire career and again goes back to being more about opportunity rather than skill. If you take a guy like Pitts high, he is getting 100-120 targets in year 1.

That's some chicken and egg stuff there, man. Players generally get more targets because they get better. 

I mean Kelce got 16 more targets in year 3 than he did year 2 and he got only 13 more yards to show for it. Just because you throw to a guy 2x as much doesn't mean he's going to put up 2x the stats. He needs to be open enough to actually make the extra targets viable.

Lol... Nobody is throwing to Pitts 120 times in year 1. Only 19 players had at least 120 targets in 2020, and only 20 the year before. He won't even sniff 100 unless the team has literally no other viable pass catchers at WR. 

In the last 10 drafts, he only 1st round pick TE one to get at least 70 targets as a rookie was Evan Engram and that was on a 3-13 Giants team where nobody reached 750 receiving yards, and Engram only caught 55.7% of the passes thrown at him. The WRs on that team were Sterling Shepard (731 yards) and Roger Lewis (416 yards).

(04-28-2021, 11:46 AM)Hammerstripes Wrote: If Pitts could have the impact Eifert had as a rookie, he would be worth the pick.

Eifert as a rookie was a #2 TE, and 6th on the team in receiving yards.