Where is Ross?

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(06-05-2019, 01:40 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Ehh, what can you do? Even if Ross is or does open up the underneath stuff for the other guys, we are using a top 10 pick to do something the Steelers got out of a scrapheap WR in Darius Heyward Bey.

Wait...he's a free agent now.  And now I'm looking at his stats and they've been super low for the past 3 years.  Still, he paid off for them.  At any rate, Ross being our 5th option at WR sort of reminds me of Hobsin semi-bragging about how our team had the luxury of having so many high draft picks on the bench for the o-line.  Um...great?

Difference between DHB in Pittsburgh vs John Ross now is that nobody was high on DHB after they saw him in Oakland. It wasn't (and still isn't) known how John Ross will develop by the end of his rookie contract. DHB was thought to be more on the raw side but could develop into a good WR when he was drafted and he wad more ideal size. With that said, Ross had an even better resume than DHB coming out of college, as DHB never topped 800 receiving yards or 5 receiving TDs in a single season in college. Ross had 1150 receiving yards and 17 receiving TDs his last year in college. Ross wasn't considered near the project that DHB was.

I think a better comparison for Ross is (or will be) Devery Henderson. Henderson was somewhat on the smaller side but was a big play threat.
Henderson was the 50th overall pick but he also didn't have quite as good of a last season in college as Ross had.
Henderson's first two years in New Orleans, he totaled 343 yards and 3 TDs.
In Henderson's 3rd year, he exploded for 745 yards and 5 TDs.
Henderson was considered the 3rd WR and 4th overall receiving option on the team behind veteran Joe Horn, rookie Marques Colton (what a steal he was), and Reggie Bush.