Troy Walters

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(01-09-2025, 11:25 AM)ochocincos Wrote: And as a follow up to this, I decided to look up the 4th receiving option in each of the Top 7 teams in passing:
CIN - Iosivas - 479 yards, 6 TDs
DET - Tim Patrick - 394 yards, 3 TDs (Jahymr Gibbs does have more receiving yards and is technically 4th at 517 yards, 4 TDs, but I was looking for 4th WR/TE. Even so, Gibbs would be right there with the rest of these guys if we consider him 4th option)
TB - Jalen McMillan - 461 yards, 8 TDs
SEA - Noah Fant - 500 yards, 1 TD
MIN - Jalen Nailor - 414 yards, 6 TDs
BAL - Isaiah Likely - 477 yards, 6 TDs
KC - Noah Gray - 437 yards, 5 TDs

And here's the problem with just going "4th options" Ocho. Without even looking, I can all but guarantee that none of those guys came close to the 892 offensive snap workload that Yoshi got. 

That's a massive difference in opportunity. 

That's not even touching how many of those guys had a triple-crown WR and (half the time) Tee Higgins drawing coverage away? 
OR how many of those guys were getting passes thrown to them by Joe Burrow in an MVP-caliber statistical season.

I'm not aware of who a couple of those guys are, but most of them? You give them 892 offensive snaps with Joe Burrow at QB and they CRUSH the numbers they put up this year.