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(04-20-2023, 12:04 AM)PDub80 Wrote: JJ got 80 more targets than the next closest receiver on that team.... and that other player has been consistantly banged up as well. Next guy, 3rd, in targes on the Vikkngs had 50% less targets than Jefferson.

He is a FABULOUS player, no doubt. But he is given a massive amount of touches to be able to reach those milestones. How else does one reach them is a fair question. He definitely put in the work, but he benefited from a broken down #2 & a slowed down Dalvin Cook.

JJ was my fsvorite receiver in that draft, Higgins was my 2nd. JJ is the better player, but I don't know if he would be getting 180+ targets a year on tbe Bengals, for example.

If you're carrying the offense on your back and you're still unstoppable and always open, that's a positive, not a negative. Calvin Johnson had 102 more targets than anyone else on his team when he put up 1,964 yards. How does that make him worse? People were triple teaming him because they knew he was getting the ball and he still caught it.



Antonio Brown's highest receiving yard season he had 101 more targets than anyone else on the team. 
Julio Jones' highest receiving yard season he had 106 more targets than anyone else on the team.
Jerry Rice's highest receiving yard season he had 66 more targets than anyone else on the team.
Randy Moss' highest receiving yard season he had 85 more targets than anyone else on the team.
Cooper Kupp when he won the receiver triple crown and carried his team to a SB win, had 102 more targets than anyone else on the team.

If a guy is open, you're going to keep throwing to him. If he's always open, he's going to end up with a huge workload. Of the top 15 targeted pass catchers last year, Justin Jefferson had the 2nd most separation on average according to NFL NGS. That's a weird paradox you're trying to pitch that a guy is worse because he's open more often, thus gets a higher workload.