The Slot is Dead

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(06-21-2024, 11:03 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Taylor wasn't being predictable in any of these ways. I'm not sure why you or anyone would say this. In 2023, there were 1,123 plays with a player lined up in the slot. 

Boyd accounted for 521 of those. Tanner Hudson played roughly the same amount of snaps in the slot as Chase did. Four different RBs logged snaps in the slot. 

In 2022, Hayden Hurst logged roughly the same amount of snaps in the slot as....Chase. Four RBs logged snaps in the slot, Boyd accounted for less than half the snaps. 

In 2021, CJ Uzomah logged the second most snaps in the slot. Four RBs. 

The Bengals have never ran an offense where they just trotted Boyd out in the slot and were predictable in any meaningful way. This is the NFL, you can't get away with that. 

People would be surprised to learn how frequently guys like Jefferson, hill and aj brown line up in the slot.

23.6, 31.1, 24.9.. respectively

This isn’t all that new of a concept, others teams are doing it/and have been doing it… bengals included.