PFF ranks Bengals receiving corps #11

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(05-20-2020, 09:33 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: That’s on Taylor though. Both players should be used more than they are. Alex Erickson should not be tied for 2nd in receptions on any NFL team.

(05-20-2020, 09:36 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Could be because the QB was garbage and still with had 2 RBs in the top 35 of a 32 team league. To suggest Joe and Gio are not threats out of the backfield is silly. 

TE's are terrible 

(05-20-2020, 09:39 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: That's not a stat representative of their ability, just a measure of how little they were used.  Give each of them one more target each, per game, and I'd be willing to bet that after a season their rankings would show a serious bump.

I don't disagree with any of you three on this. Gio and Mixon CAN be a potent receiving threat. Potential and reality are two different things, though.

I agree it's mostly on Taylor, but Taylor is still controlling playcalling duty in 2020 so there's no reason to expect it to improve. Doubly so since they are hopefully getting AJ back and adding a 2nd round WR. If the RBs can't get targets in Taylor's offense when there's a bad WR group, I doubt they get significantly more with a better WR group.

Even with both of their 2019 receiving yards combined, there were still 5 RBs who had more yards on their own, and no doubt that number would increase quite a bit if you did RB duos. Gio and Mixon only combined for 521 yards receiving in 2019. In 2013, Gio had 514 receiving yards on his own.