The Ja'Marr Chase Thread

[Murdock2420]

(12-06-2021, 05:34 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: He really has been. Over the last 5 games:

Chase: 39 targets for 20-204-2 (5.23 yards per target)
Higgins: 39 targets for 27-442-2 (11.33 yards per target)
Boyd: 27 targets for 19-227-1 (8.40 yards per target)

I remember a lot of talk about Higgins being incapable of making big plays due to lack of speed, but here he is averaging 16.4 yards per catch over this stretch.

I forget who it was, but there was a poster who said Higgins had a low YPC early in the season because Chase was getting all the long targets. That's looking like he was on to something, as Higgins went from 10.2 yards/catch while Chase was balling out, to 16.4 yards/catch during Chase's slide.

It's even more interesting when you break down the last 5 games among rookie WRs

Targets  Receptions   Yards   TDs
39         20               204      2               Chase
46         38               436      1               Waddle
26         17               280      3               DeVonta Smith
45         28               392      5               Elijah Moore
31         25               234      1               Amon-Ra St. Brown
34         25               300      0               Kadarius Toney
27         18               192      0               Rashod Bateman


 With the exception of Bateman all of those guys are doing it with lesser QBs and with no real help around them at all. 

Waddle has Tua's sad self and Gesicki. (Parker just got off IR this week and Will Fuller is still on IR)
Smith has Jalen Hurts and Dallas Goedert after that... nothing
Moore is dealing with Mike White, Joe Freakin' Flaccid, Zac Wilson and Jamison Crowder.
St. Brown has Goff... who is awful, the Lions pathetic offense outside of Hockenson
Toney has Danny Dimes and the revolving door of injured guys like Shepard and Golladay.


So it isn't just that the league is shifting to Chase or doubling him since there is nothing to keep a defense from putting 3 guys on Waddle or Smith or etc...

This fall back to earth is something else and they need to figure out what it is since his targets are on pace with the others over the same time frame.