07-16-2015, 11:46 AM
(07-16-2015, 11:33 AM)fredtoast Wrote: He dropped last year because he was injured. No one would argue that he got that much worse in just one year.
A.J. gained 1.56 yards per snap last year
A.J. gained 1.35 yards per snap in 2013
A.J. led the league gaining an absurd 2.96 yards per pass route run last year
A.J. gained 2.28 yards per pass route run in 2013
I'd say that it's fair to say he didn't "decline", and that his volume numbers simply went down due to injury. It's not like he's a 37 year old receiver where his acceleration and hips hit a brick wall and dropped out of nowhere.
