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(05-31-2024, 04:16 PM)Joelist Wrote: Exactly. You can teach catching with hands. And so far in OTAs they have shown he has been catching with his hands. 

On a related note, 26% of snaps was more him on Special Teams than anything else as he only had 25 targets all season. And last season after Burrow went down was a golden opportunity to work both him and Chuck Sizzle enough to season them and get a firm grasp on their floor and ceiling. Than again, we only missed postseason by dint of a dropped TD pass in the Houston game so...

Uh, no.  He played 26% of the offensive snaps because he played 26% of the offensive snaps.  Those are tallied different s than ST's snaps, which he played 51% of.  He had a low number of targets, true, but that can be a large number of different factors.  Route assignments, not getting open, the QB not being able to trust him to make tough catches, etc.  He got plenty of snaps.  He just wasn't very good.  

Hands catching can be improved somewhat, but natural ability in that area is extremely important, also.  And Yoshi's worked on this ever since he started playing football.  Kid actually bought his own jugs machine to work with when he was at Princeton.  Could he improve some?  Certainly.  Will he ever be a plus hands guy?  Doubtful.