05-12-2017, 10:33 PM
(05-12-2017, 09:01 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Boyd's status is the same as last year. He will be an important part of the offense.
Ross comes in with medical concerns that will put him behind as far as conditioning and getting up to speed in the NFL. Honestly, Ross probably makes very little impact this season.
Boyd has shown he can handle the pro game as a rookie and that should translate to him being even better this year. There is no real reason to assume Ross cuts into Boyd's playing time at this point. Boyd has shown he can play in the NFL, Ross has not. When Ross has 16 games under his belt and isn't on IR, then this topic comes up. Of course, when that time comes, LaFell will probably be a FA and Boyd stays as a top 3 target on the team.
While i completely agree that Boyd is more polished as of right now, if John Ross is healthy his mere presence on the field will change things.
If John Ross has 16 games under his belt.... Lots of great shit happened.
Last year we needed a deep threat when Green went down, we were calling for Core at the time cause Lafell and Boyd are not deep threats.
When Core came in he provided this. We cannot ignore this blatant truth and act like Boyd is a great deep threat.
Boyd is a great possession receiver with good hands from what we have seen but not a redzone threat or deep threat.
John Ross in college was a GREAT REDZONE THREAT AND GREAT DEEP BALL THREAT... THE BEST IN COLLEGE.
