Notes From Training Camp 2025

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(07-25-2025, 06:38 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Yoshi was the #2 WR for a good portion of the year.

That said, yards per catch are really not a huge indicator of quality of play so long as you're above the minimum threshold expected of your position. Ja'Marr Chase only had 0.1 higher than Iosivas last year at 13.4. Meanwhile Burton had 26.3 yards per catch. It's largely just a product of how you are being used.

If you want to actually compare him to a good slot guy....
Boyd had a 3.3% drop rate to Iosivas' 8.2%
Boyd had 4.6 yards after the catch per reception to Iosivas' 1.9
Boyd caught 68.1% of his targets (70.6% in the Burrow era) to Iosivas catching just 59.0%

Iosivas' one strength is he is really good inside the 10. Outside of that he's been a really bad WR who just got way too many offensive snaps. I never say that PFF is gospel, but it matches the eye test and the stat test when it says he was the 126th out of 133 WRs last year.

So to me (probably because I got into football by playing a lot of FF), good is yards and TDs.
The more you have, the better.
If you are not as good, you won't get many opportunities to have the ball thrown to you, and thus will ultimately get fewer yards/TDs.

I'd rather have someone with a drop percentage of 7+% if they still put up good yards and TDs over someone who hardly gets any production but has a good catch %.

I still don't think Iosivas is as bad as some people think he is, and I do think his production was more limited from playing majority in the slot, based on how most slot receivers are usually lower production that their outside counterparts.

At the end of the day, I do think Iosivas is still worse than Chase, Higgins, and Gesicki, so he's still 4th option at best.
4th option is extremely unlikely to get 700+ yards in a season unless an injury 1-3 guys occurs that forces that 4th option into more opportunities than expected.