No Need for a #1 WR

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(09-27-2020, 08:11 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I mean... does he, though? I've seen it said recently and I am not sure where the idea came from.

Last year he threw 84 catches and 1,780 yards to one WR, 111 catches and 1,540 yards to another WR, and nobody else had even 60 catches or 700 yards.

That sounds like the exact opposite of liking to spread it around. That sounds like he likes having two of the best WRs in the country to heavily feed the ball to. Heck, the only other person who had more than 47 catches besides those 2 WRs was the RB.

Yes, he does.
You are putting the stats of Chase and Jefferson, obviously. They were the two biggest contributors. They total 3320 yards.
What about the rest of Burrow's 2351 yards?
They were primarily spread across CEH, Moss, and Marshall.
That's a full set of weapons (5) with 46+ receptions and 450+ yards.

To me, that's spreading the ball around.

When looking at Burrow's first 3 NFL games, we see something similar.
Receptions - yards:
Boyd - 23 rec, 230 yards
Green - 13 rec, 116 yards
RB (Bernard + Mixon) - 19 rec, 156 yards
TE (Uzomah + Sample) - 17 rec , 140 yards
Higgins - 8 rec, 75 yards
Thomas - 8 rec, 57 yards
Tate + Ross - 4 rec, 46 yards
(Combined WR3+WR4 = 20 rec, 178 yards)

Does that not look rather spread around? It does to me. Obviously, it's favoring Boyd, but I see a pretty good distribution.