How good can Tee Higgins be?

[Shake n Blake]

(04-19-2021, 09:11 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: Not like we have not heard a player won;t be there and is... happens every year.. so we can't say for certain.. i agree he seems to be moving into late 1st round on some boards but ive seen others that have him in 2nd round... but no matter there are other fine WRs that most likely will be there at 38.. 

On a side note ive noticed more Oline going in 1st round on boards than before so that might be thinner than we think at 38 

I think it's so funny that everyone conveniently assumes all good WRs will be off the board by the 38th pick. Gotta be the first draft that's ever happened.

(04-20-2021, 05:42 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: I have game pass and i went back and watched TnT, isolated on all 22, on the routes they ran. The majority of the time, they don't have trouble getting separation. Neither one was asked all that often to try and just run by someone but they didn't have trouble getting open on the vast majority of routes they ran last year. 

Yep...and tbh Higgins doesn't NEED as much separation because he's elite at contested catches.

(04-20-2021, 10:40 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Yep. 

There's not a lot of speed on offense right now but that's different than if the receivers can get open consistently. 

Exactly. The pro-Chase crowd wants to make it into an overall separation issue because that makes the need seem bigger than it really is. You can get a Chris Henry style WR (whose purpose is take the top off the defense, but not necessarily to be a WR1 or even WR2) later in the draft.

In order to justify Chase at 5, they need to make it seem like Higgins and Boyd are incapable players and all routes are being affected by lack of separation.

(04-22-2021, 09:41 AM)Housh Wrote: Tee is likely as good as he’s ever going to be right now. He’s not gonna get faster or develop Chad Johnson like feet. He’s a good WR and likely will be for a decade. No problem with that. Mohammad Sanu made a good career of it

Anquan Boldin didnt have any of those things and was much better than Mo Sanu. Heck, Higgins rookie season smoked anything Sanu ever did.