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(04-28-2021, 12:26 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: 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).




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

And he made a serious impact on the middle of the field and red zone.  Our outside guys were freed up because teams had to respect him.

Like I said in an earlier post, this isn't about raw numbers, it's about creating mismatches outside because you can't dedicate too much help on other guys.

If the Bengals are running a 3 wide set, it's going to be pretty tough to account for those guys plus a legit threat down the middle of the field.