Troy Walters announced as WR coach

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(01-11-2021, 11:21 AM)Sled21 Wrote: He's a WR, he's supposed to run downfield and get open and then catch the ball. He hasn't. That's on him. (and I'm a huge AJ fan) To me, it feels like AJ was used to Dalton forcing the ball to him all the time, and now that we have a QB who is as willing to throw to other receivers and he is to Green, AJ seems like the more the ball goes to others, the less effort he puts into his routes. He actually, on several plays, seemed surprised the ball was coming to him and tried to put in the effort at the last minute.

What's more concerning to me is AJ's catch percentage being so low. It was just 45% this season, his lowest of his career.
He had about the same number of targets as Higgins and Boyd (104 vs 108, 110), but he had 318 yards less than Boyd and 385 yards less than Higgins.

I hate to bring John Ross back into this conversation, but Green had a lower catch percentage in 2020 than Ross had in 2019. Ross also had about as many receiving yards in 2019 on about half the targets Green had in 2020. Am I crazy to think that Ross might have actually produced about as well as (or possibly better than) AJ Green did this season if he had been given as many opportunities?