Early Myles Murphy Panic

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(08-17-2023, 03:17 PM)Nepa Wrote: Two years ago, during training camp and preseason games, there was major concern among some Bengals fans and major media sports commentators that Ja'Marr Chase couldn't catch an NFL football. I'm sure everyone remembers that. You know, the lack of stripes on the ball, the size, etc.  It was drops, drops, drops -- which they felt were going to continue into the regular season. Some were calling him a bust as an early first round pick. One brilliant soul on this board said he didn't even deserve to make the 53. (Based on this panic, Chase lasted pretty far down on some fantasy drafts. My son didn't believe the hype and was able to get him for a steal in his fantasy drafts.)

I'm going to give Zero (0) credibility to Myles Murphy being a bust for a first round pick based on practice and pre-season games.

Chase is great and will rightfully get paid huge amounts of money as a top WR, but it is worth noting that those drops have never gone away.

He had 11 drops in 12 games last year, which according to some sources places him as the 3rd most drops in the NFL despite missing 5 games. 

He's had an 8.6% drop rate and an 8.2% drop rate in his NFL career, and it's not like he has some bum inaccurate QB with poor placement throwing him the ball. It's probably the one thing keeping him from being an All-Pro WR. Justin Jefferson has 13 drops in his 3 year career, Davante Adams has 11 drops over his last 3 years combined. The gap between Jefferson and Chase in drop rate is almost as much as the gap between Chase and John Ross.