Importance of Special Teams

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(01-08-2016, 03:47 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: Tate ranks 17th out of 40 kick returners and better than anyone Steelers have out there  and has zero fumbles lost this year both kickoffs and punts.  As far as a team.. here is a link that ranks Bengals 9th cross the board on special teams and factors in some interesting variables.  Steelers are 18th.

I don;t want Jones on kickoffs unless 4th quarter and we are behind or close.  Punts I would be selective... for same reason Steelers have become selective with Brown.. both are too valuable in their normal position.


http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamst

Even if you say "out of 40", that still means he's below 16 people, which means below 16 teams, which means bottom half of the league.

Besides, that's just for total return yards. If you look at the top 20 yardage KR guys, Brandon Tate has the 19th average.

Just like how out of the 24 qualified PR, Branton Tate has the 22nd average at 6.6 yards. Adam Jones has more yardage in 16 PR than Tate does in 27 PR.


Every year people try to use accumulative stats to make Tate look better, but he only gets those stats because no other team would keep running him out there so he can muff catches, make freaking awful decisions, and run backwards. Tate is Turrible.