10-29-2020, 11:05 AM
(10-29-2020, 10:45 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Higgins is doing well, but records/stats like that are quickly becoming meaningless.
There's 2 WR this year on pace to fly past 1,100 yards (Jefferson and Lamb) and another 6 on pace right now for ~700-900+ yards (Higgins, Aiyuk, Jeudy, Ruggs, Shenault, Claypool) and that's just from the first 50 picks of the 2020 draft.
There has to be a shift back towards earlier football eventually, before it turns into arena league, no?
I guess the first thing I'd say is that this was a historically deep draft class at WR. And they've lived up to their billing. That being said, there's no question the rules now favor a pass heavy game. And I think that's here to stay. The rules favoring the passing game are largely designed to prevent injuries and, specifically, concussions. You can certainly have a debate as to whether those are effective. But from an optics perspective I don't see the NFL retreating from the current landscape.
