04-16-2024, 10:52 AM
(04-15-2024, 04:32 PM)Bengalbug Wrote: No one is putting him up there with those guys. Folks are pointing out the similarities in injuries, career trajectory, etc.
Tee Higgins is on a similar career trajectory as all of the guys you listed (Evans, Kupp and Diggs). Go look at their opportunity share & first three years in the leagues.
Lastly IDGAF about Chase being here. We have around 100 targets per year vacated with Boyd leaving. Assuming Higgins gets 10-30 of those targets, I’ll call it now… Higgins is top 12 in yards and catches and top 5 in TDS. You want to see somone like Mike Evan’s on the bengals? Well Higgins/Chase without Boyd is about to blow up and Higgins is going to eat.
It’s really crazy to me that people can’t see the path forward for tee Higgins to have BY FAR his best season yet. Same for Chase. Burrow might take a slight efficiency bump, but that is TBD.
That's because you're failing to take into account all the limitations Higgins has, and those limitations are always going to limit his opportunities unless he plays for a team that's just uncompetitive.
Higgins is almost strictly an intermediate level receiver. He lacks the short area quickness for most shorter routes like whips, flats, shallow crosses, and WR screens. He also lacks the long speed to be consistently threaten the defense on deep routes. His lack of speed even makes certain intermediate routes like deep crosses unviable. Therefore, unless you just sit there and force feed Higgins targets on the handful of routes he is effective on, like outs, digs, curls, in's, and back shoulder fades, you're very limited in his usage. That's the real reason he's not a #1 WR. To be a #1, you need to be a two level threat. Higgins isn't.
