03-17-2019, 12:29 AM
(03-16-2019, 05:31 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: He hasn't gotten better each year.
2015: 4 yards (AJ Green played 16 games)
2016: 234 yards (AJ Green played 10 games)
2017: 92 yards (AJ Green played 16 games)
2018: 439 yards (AJ Green played 9 games)
His yardage each year is inverse to the number of games AJ Green played that year, meaning he's not good but when the actually good options are hurt, they just force feed him the ball a bit.
Not sure how you feel about PFF (I don't treat it like gospel, but it's a good reference) but last year they had Uzomah listed as the 42nd out of 54 qualified TEs, and gave him a 57.4 grade.
The guy is a backup TE but because Eifert is going to be hurt every year he's going to be shoehorned into being a starting TE, which is detrimental to the team.
His production seems more tied to Eifert's health than AJ Green's. In 2017, we played Kroft over Uzomah when Eifert got hurt. That's why Uzi's numbers were so down that year. Of course, a pretty severe ankle injury in training camp that kept him out of preseason games and (IIRC) the first 2-3 weeks probably didn't help. Nor did a week 5 knee injury.
(03-16-2019, 10:08 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Shocking stat: He's had over 445 receiving yards exactly ONCE in his 6 year career.
He's caught over 39 passes exactly ONCE too.
He shared the field with Gresh as a rookie, which ate into his production. Other than that, he's only played one season even close to 16 games (13 games in 2015). So it's not really surprising he hasn't posted great numbers. He's had a grand total of 2 (somewhat) healthy seasons and had to split TE targets with Gresh in one of them.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
