Tee Higgins

[Wes Mantooth]

(08-05-2020, 03:33 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Beyond false, but that's fine.

I'm not saying he a world-beater or that he's even a lock to make the team, but Erickson has proven that he belongs in the league, with precise routes, great agility and excellent hands.

The key part of my statement was on this roster.

Here are the guys who 100% are ahead of him, in terms of who you keep for 2020....

1.) Green
2.) Boyd
3.) Higgins
4.) Ross
5.) Tate

Now here's who he is left competing with for the final spot...

-Damion Willis
-Mike Thomas
-Stanley Morgan
-Damarkus Lodge
-Scotty Washington
-Trenton Irwin

Every single one of these guys is younger than Erickson. Every single one of them are bigger than Erickson. Every single one of them is CHEAPER than Erickson.

My point was that the only reason you keep Erickson is for ST.  Why pay your 6th receiver 2 mil + a year when there's younger and cheaper options.  The only answer to that is ST.

Is Alex Erickson such a good returner that he deserves a roster spot to solely do that?  IMHO, not really.  He's a competent return man, but he's far, far from special.

But all of this applies to this roster.  I never said he had no business being in the league.  There are other teams could add some much needed depth, where he could maybe slide up to the 5th best guy.  I just don't think thats' the case here.  He's got 5 guys who are clearly better than him on the depth chart.

If Ross were to get a chance at return duties, which I think he should, then I think that makes Erickson's value plummet to next to nothing.  That was my point. There's no reason to pay Erickson more than Higgins and Tate combined, to sit on the bottom of the depth chart, if you have another option as a return man.