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(08-25-2019, 04:42 PM)Whatever Wrote: It's a play action heavy offense and he's the best healthy deep threat we have.  He spent a bunch of time with the 1's in TC and started the first 2 preseason games.  Better physical tools than Tate, Erickson, Core, Morgan, etc.  

Not sure if that's actually true or if it even matters.
Malone is fast but he's not exactly made a lot of deep catches (or hardly any catches for that matter).
Ross is back practicing now with 2 weeks before Game 1, so as long as he doesn't get hurt again before Game 1, I still see him ahead of Malone.
Willis isn't a slouch either when it comes to speed, so he and Ross can fill that deep threat role.
Also, that play-action deep threat won't really matter much if Dalton continues to underthrow deep receivers like he did with Malone in the preseason game.

I'm not saying that it's a guarantee that Malone won't make it but considering him a lock just because he's the fastest out of Tate, Erickson, Core, Morgan, etc. doesn't really make sense either.