Post First Wave of FA Draft - CJD

[CJD]

(03-21-2020, 03:20 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Shenault is just too damn talented for me to pass up if he is there.

Never seen a WR run like him before. WR/RB with wheels, great hands and explosive as hell.

Maybe just not use him like a RB eh? Maybe he will stay healthy then.

I LOVE watching Shenault play.

But I think there's this misconception that he's been injury prone because he was overused at RB or something.

Even I was planning on using that as an argument to draft him as a pure receiver. I went to double check his snaps just to make sure my argument held up. I was expecting to see that he had 50 to 100 carries each year for the last 3 years or something.

The dude has 40 carries in the last 2 years (2 carries in 2017, when he wasn't used much).

On the plus side, I was equally surprised at how many games he missed due to those injuries:
4 games in the last 2 years. He didn't have any stats in 7 games of his Freshman year, but Colorado's website says he played in 12 games, so maybe there are no stats listed for him in those 7 games because he was strictly special teams in those games? His freshman year, he was rarely used, as many freshmen are not. There are a few inconsistencies on that website, where it says he played in 9 of 11 games in this past season...but he has stats on ESPN in all 11 games...So I'm not exactly sure what's going on there...

The point is, he has had a variety of injuries, but he has played through them often and had surgery in the off season for the most part.

So I think both sides of the story are a little overblown. He's dealt with injuries, but not enough to make you think "this guy will always be on IR." His medical history doesn't support this line of thinking, having missed only 4 games due to injury.

On the other side of the argument, it doesn't seem like decreasing his carries is the solution to keep him on the field, as he had so few of them over his career.

Truth be told, this little research project into Shenault has made me more bullish on him than I had previously been. I'm not pretty comfortable taking him at 33 :).