Tee Higgins

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(08-05-2020, 06:31 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Part of that growth is just not being injured. The 0 years is from a season he played 3 games, and only had 2 targets before he was out hurt.

There is improved production but the most important ability is availability and when you are dropping easy catches still in your 3rd year (2nd if you wash out year one due to injury) and now have to complete with Higgins, Boyd, Green and Tate for WR targets, I think he will be written off quickly if Burrow can't count on him to catch it or try to break up a pick. 

I want him to succeed, he wears a Bengal jersey, so as long as he is on this team I will want him to break out and be a success, I just think he's going to go the way of Ced, and Billy Price as first round what were they thinking picks.

Last year, Boyd ranked 7th in the league in Targets.  Tate was tied for 66th and Erickson tied for 68th.  Ross was 107th.  Boyd was 25th in receiving yards.  Tate was 72nd.  Erickson was 79th.  Ross was 84th.  

Could Ross have been more productive if he eliminated the drops and gaffes?  Likely.  However, he was more productive with his targets than any other WR on the team.  He was literally the only WR we had who's yardage ranking was higher than his target volume.  There wasn't a WR on this team last year that was really that great.  I don't really get continuing to pick at the guy who was most productive with his targets while giving a pass to guys with greater, but less obvious, failures.

At the end of the day, all these guys should have to prove themselves and earn their spots in TC, no exceptions.  We  need a lot more out of that position group than we got last year.  There's a lot of guys in that group that need to play better and prove they can stay healthy.