FootballGuys: John Ross Could EXPLODE!

[BengalChris]

(07-24-2019, 07:38 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I don't mean to be piling on, but here are some numbers on John Ross that I just saw from Profootballoutsiders.

Ross's 22.2% drop percentage (6 drops, 21 receptions) was fourth highest in the league last year, but the three players higher than him (Michael Roberts, Chris Ivory, and Demetrius Harris) barely had as many targets COMBINED (66) as Ross had by himself (58).

Despite finishing tied for 190th in the league in receptions only 5 players had more interceptions on passes targeted for them than Ross's 5.  Those 5 players who had more ints averaged 69 receptions.

Finally in their "plus/minus" ranking, which I understand is supposed to grade every play based on down, distance, and opposing defense, Ross was dead last among WRs.



Also from Profootballreference.com....

Over the last 10 seasons there have been 861 times a WR has been targeted at least 50 times in a season.  Among those 861 John Ross's 2018 numbers rank 860th (thanks to Eddie Royal in 2011) in "yards per target" (3.62) and 858th in "catch percentage" (36.2%) ahead of Louis Murphy '09, Devin Aromashodu '11, and Mohamed Massaoquoi '09.

If you were going to pile on you'd have mentioned the following:

In his entire rookie year he managed to catch 0% of his targets yet still managed to produce a fumble while touching the football only one time for a 100% fumble rate. That was while he appeared in 3 games and started 1. It's difficult to research, but I'm pretty sure that is close to, if not, the worst rookie year of any WR in NFL history. A receiver who didn't even appear in a game would have had a better year statistically. That's without also mentioning calling the coach out in videos he posted, then claiming he had an injury that he hid.

You'd also have called him the One Fumble Wonder.

That's if you were piling on.